Focus on Fluency™

By Kristin Chmela

Grades 2-8

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$224.95

Fluency kit includes 88-page, reproducible instruction manual. This creative Tool Kit includes 10 card decks, discussion strips, game board, magnetic board with seven magnets, seven manipulatives, and three educational posters. Grades 2-8.

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Fluency kit includes 88-page, reproducible instruction manual. This creative Tool Kit includes 10 card decks, discussion strips, game board, magnetic board with seven magnets, seven manipulatives, and three educational posters. Grades 2-8.

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Author(s) Kristin Chmela
Topic Best Sellers, Evidence-Based Products, SLP Resources, Programs, Fluency, Stuttering/Dysfluency
Brand Super Duper Publications

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Focus on Fluency™

Focus on Fluency is a practical, creative Tool Kit chock-full of resource materials broken into five areas: Education, Desensitization, Basic Communication, Fluency Shaping, and Stuttering Modification. The tools in this kit will assist you in carrying out goals for a variety of students and their individual needs.

Focus on Fluency Materials

  • Instructional Manual with Reproducible Activities, Contract, and Charting Cards (88 pages)
  • 10 card decks
  • 2 Sets of Discussion Strips
  • Game board with cards and playing pieces
  • Magnetic board with seven magnets
  • 8 visual prompt and discussion cards
  • 7 manipulatives
  • 3 educational posters

Click here for an interview with Kristin Chmela, M.A., CCC-SLP, BRS-FD, Director of the Central Speech and Language Clinic's Chmela Fluency Center.

Customer Reviews
  1. Focus on Fluency rocks!
    I needed a resource to target fluency in older elementary students (Grades 2-6). This product is perfect! Lots of activities to choose from depending on the child’s needs and the time you have allotted. I love that materials for belly breathing, educating others, and desensitization are included.

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  2. Great Fluency Kit
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    This kit has been a great addition to my fluency materials. I work with elementary and middle school students and the content in this kit have been adaptable for these different grade levels. Overall, I am happy I purchased it.

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  3. Perfection
    I studied under Barry Guitar, PhD, who wrote the textbook on Stuttering. After 14 years of making my own materials, I splurged on this and did not regret it for one second. It's perfect and totally worth the money.

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  4. Focus on Fluency for Fluency and More
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    I just purchased Focus on Fluency. I had used this product very successfully in the past in the public schools; I bought it so that I can own it and use it in my private practice. This product, by ASHA Fluency Board certified specialist, Kristen Chmela, is a wonderful tool for working on fluency. It allows you to target all aspects of fluency, including education about the condition, desensitization, basic communication skills and fluency shaping/stuttering modification. While it is a wonderful tool for working on fluency, it also lends itself to other areas, as well. I have used the education tools to work on articulation. For example, using the Speech child in the "toolbox," I have taught any number of children HOW speech is produced. We have also played "Super Silly Speech" as an activity to teach children that they can change their speech (be it articulation or fluency). I cannot recommend this program highly enough!

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  5. Fluency Kit
    I absolutely LOVE this product. I was surprised how many materials came in the package. My students love the interactive nature of this product. I've already used the weighted bean bag, which has helped my kiddos understand diaphragmatic breathing! Best product I have purchased from Super Duper!! I highly recommend this for every SLP.

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  6. Great approach to therapy!
    I love using this kit as a tool to teach students about fluency. It includes some great information about strategies and also some great ideas for how to practice. My favorite part of the kit are the materials that focus on the speech machine and the presentation. The students love it!

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  7. Focus on Fluency
    Lots of ready to use materials to target a variety of goals related to fluency.

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  8. Fluency
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    I am a pediatric SLP who frequently works with fluency patients. I recently purchased this kit and have found it extremely helpful to explain the physiology of speech and teach stuttering modifications. Also, the workbook is great for home program materials.

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  9. Awesome Toolkit!
    I love this toolkit! The visuals (e.g., speech machine) and toolkit cards are great. I borrowed a friend's older version of this product, and this newer one is even better! I especially like the decision-making guide at the beginning of each strategy to help you decide whether or not your student may benefit from learning about that speech strategy. Definitely worth the investment!

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  10. a nice, kid friendly resource
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    I just received this and am very excited to start some of these activities with a few students. It is very easy to use and lays things out clearly with nice pictures for the students.

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  11. Fluency Kit
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    I am excited to use this with my fluency kids! It focuses a lot on education and feelings about stuttering, and has a lot of great games and lesson ideas!

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  12. Great Curriculum for Fluency
    This is a comprehensive curriculum for k-8th grade. I love the desensitization piece. It is hard to think of ways for student to accept and identify with their stuttering. The desensitization portion of this product helps break it down into steps for students (and SLPs:)

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  13. Great!
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    What a great and effective kit for my fluency clients! It has everything you could possibly need!

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  14. Engaging and Organized
    I love the organization of this program. The workbook is great to start from beginning to end in a comprehensive program for fluency students, with easy to understand vocabulary, pictures, and fun activities. I worked with this product through my school district job, and I recently ordered it for my private practice. It's great!

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  15. focus on fluency
    A great comprehensive fluency program. Includes initial education activities, games, and all you need for fluency therapy.

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  16. Focus on Fluency
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    I love this program. It addresses all aspects of fluency and my students love it. It teaches, desensitizes, and gives strategies. It has fun activities. It is easy to use and planning is easy.

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  17. Extremely Satisfied.
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    I am a new SLP working in an elementary school setting. I recently added a new student with fluency concerns. I realized I didn't have sufficient materials to work with this student. I ordered Focus on Fluency, and I am so glad that I did. When I received it I found that it has everything I could possibly need to target fluency. I would recommend this to any SLP.

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  18. Focus on Fluency
    My students love Focus on Fluency. This program is easy to follow, has sturdy props that are visually exciting to the kiddos, and is simple to use. I really enjoy how the program is broken down into 5 different groups (education, desensitization, basic communication, fluency shaping, and stuttering modification). Overall, this is a great kit!!!

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  19. Focus on Fluency
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    This is probably my favorite Super Duper product! It is a well thought out, high quality, fun and interactive, easy to use, & progressive program to put school agers through. I run a private practice and I only wish there were something of this caliber for preschoolers, whom I see several stutterers at that age, and this program is a little too complex for them.

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  20. A log of bang for your buck
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    I wish I could give this program 10 stars! This is definitely the best fluency program I've ever seen, and it may be the best Super Duper product I've ever bought! It's comprehensive-it addresses all aspects of fluency therapy, and brings the explanations and practice down to a kid's level. Great for pragmatics too!

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  21. Focus on Fluency
    This is a great fluency kit...very well organized and user friendly. It addresses the students' attitudes toward stuttering more than some of the other fluency programs. I combine this with Color Me Fluent for my complete fluency therapy needs.

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  22. Excellent Product!
    Focus on Fluency is a wonderful kit that puts all the important aspects of fluency therapy right at your fingertips! It covers education and basic communication skills which is really important but often is overlooked in other fluency therapy programs. Great for kids school-aged kids!

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  23. Excellent
    This fluency kit is very well organized and user friendly. I have been so impressed with how easily I can access the materials for any target area I need. My students are really enjoying the activities and learning so much. They are very attracted to the graphics and material designs. The relaxation exercises have been especially helpful to a couple of my students.

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  24. A worthwhile purchase
    I just purchased Focus on Fluency, a Toolkit for Creative Therapy to update my fluency materials for use with a newly identified 1st grader who is severly dysfluent. This program provides a user friendly guide to each component of the kit(Education, Desentatization, Basic Communication, Stuttering Modification, and Fluency Shaping). The kit comes in a large open shelf box with four cardboard drawers for the components of the kit. So far I have used the Education Component to educate my student about speaking and his own speech. His response to My Speech Machine (a poster with magnetic components - diaphragm, lungs, voice box, tongue etc.) and the Super Silly Speech board game have been very positive. The kit appears to be pretty sturdy and durable. I suggest laminating the cards for added durability. Nice product.

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  25. Super
    This is the best product on the market for fluency. I highly recommend it... if you are a fluency expert or a new clinician, you will find what you need here.

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  26. Fluency Help
    This program is so helpful in treating fluency cases. It is appropriate for preschool to adult clients, and is filled with fun, practical activities. No prep work is necessary with this product. Just choose the section you are targeting and have enough materials to last several sessions.

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  27. fluency fun
    This is a perfect helper for the SLP's starting out with working with children with fluency problems. It's friendly instructions and building steps allows the student to have fun while learning to reduce stuttering. I use the focus on fluency over and over.

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  28. Fluency
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    I loved using the Focus on Fluency program! It provided a great structure for planning each lesson and a step-by-step guide to assist me in this area that I am new at working with. I would highly recommend it, especially for the newer clinician, but I know it would also be a good resource for the seasoned clinician as well.

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  29. Focus on Fluency
    I love the Focus on Fluency kit. My elementary age students have really responded well to the activities. I have seen more consistent progress since beginning to use the kit. Activities are user friendly...kids, teachers, and parents are pleased with this wonderful resource. I have recommended it to many colleagues.

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  30. Cluttering and Stuttering
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    This kit is amazing! It has been great to utilize with my student who clutters besides the students who stutter.

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  31. I enjoy your products and...
    I enjoy your products and love your language games/activities. I would like more interactive products and language stimulating toys for early childhood. I work with many pre-kindergarten students and would benefit from a larger variety of products for children at this age. I love the fluency enhancing tools and the Magne Talk activities.

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  32. focus on fluency
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    This product makes stuttering therapy fun and effective. It is the best program I have ever used. Buy it!

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  33. Focus on Fluency
    This tool has been so useful and practical in my therapy with students with fluency difficulty. The materials are ready to use, well sequenced and kids really enjoy them. The materials focus on all aspects of fluency treatment for young children. Well worth the investment!

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  34. A Winner!
    I have been working with Focus on Fluency for the past year. I love the organization and layout of the program materials. The best part of Focus on Fluency is that not only have I used the material with children who stutter, I have also been able to use some of the ideas for children who have other communication issues. I have spent time this year teaching children with articulation and other oral motor difficulties about the “speech machine”. I have also been able to use components of the program to focus on social communication skills such as eye contact, turn-taking, and wait time. Practicing these skills has helped my speech groups run more efficiently all year long. Thanks Super Duper and Kristin Chmela for the fantastic product, can’t wait to see what else you will develop!

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  35. Keep offering us such wonderful...
    Keep offering us such wonderful products. I am currently enjoying the Focus on Fluency Program. My students are loving it! I recently filled a large order and have been very pleased with the quality and usefulness of the products I have received=)

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  36. the focus is fluency
    My students and I are simply loving this program. It offers great visuals and actvities.

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  37. I love the Focus on...
    I love the Focus on Fluency Kit. It is so helpful for working with my fluency students. I like the poster and the cards which provide cues for each aspect of fluency therapy.

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  38. I really like and would...
    I really like and would recommend this product because it is straightforward and includes relevant techniques that can be easily incorporated to make an impact on your students' fluency skills.

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  39. I LOVE Focus on Fluency....
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    I LOVE Focus on Fluency. My students are very enthusiastic about the materials!

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