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Help teachers move beyond referrals and toward meaningful classroom supports.
Communication impacts every aspect of a student's school day. Students use speech and language skills to follow directions, participate in discussions, ask for help, build relationships, understand instruction, explain ideas, and demonstrate what they know. When communication challenges are present, students may appear inattentive, shy, off-task, or academically struggling when the underlying concern is actually related to speech and language development.
 
The Speech-Language Therapy MTSS Strategies for the Classroom Manual was designed to help educators identify common communication concerns and implement practical, classroom-friendly supports before referral or alongside intervention efforts.
 
This comprehensive digital manual is organized around how speech-language concerns naturally present in school settings:
✔ Speech Sounds & Speaking Skills
✔ Understanding Language
✔ Using Language
✔ Social Communication
✔ Academic Language & Classroom Participation
✔ Grammar & Sentence Structure
 
Each section includes:
• Common classroom observations ("If you see this...")
• Practical MTSS strategies teachers can implement immediately
• Evidence-informed classroom supports
• Clear connections between communication and academic participation
• Ready-to-use classroom tools and visual supports
 
Includes 14 Ready-to-Use Classroom Toolkits
One of the most unique features of this manual is the inclusion of 14 printable classroom toolkits designed to help teachers put strategies into action immediately.
These toolkits include:
✔ Conversation and turn-taking supports
✔ Discussion sentence starters
✔ WH-question supports
✔ Sequencing visuals
✔ Story retelling tools
✔ Complete sentence supports
✔ Pronoun activities
✔ Irregular verb visuals
✔ Speech sound reminder cues
✔ Social communication supports
✔ Following directions and task-completion tools
✔ And more!
Rather than simply providing lists of strategies, this manual gives educators practical visual supports they can print, post, copy, and use with students right away.
 
Perfect For:
• General Education Teachers
• Special Education Teachers
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• MTSS Teams
• School Administrators
• Intervention Specialists
• Related Service Providers
Whether used independently by teachers or collaboratively with speech-language pathologists, this manual provides a practical framework for supporting communication, participation, and learning across the school day.
 
SEE Kim's FREE form: "MTSS Tier 1 Strategies Worksheet by OTKimWiggins" 
(scroll down - the list is in alphabetical order). This worksheet is a tool to help you organize and plan your approach, making it easier to apply strategies effectively and address student needs.