Author: Tatyana Elleseff

Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP is a bilingual speech-language pathologist who specializes in working with multicultural, internationally & domestically adopted as well as at-risk children with complex communication disorders in a hospital, school, and private practice settings. She has been published in several magazines including Adoption Today, Adoption Advocate, Advance for Speech Language Pathologists as well as ASHA Perspectives on School-Based and Global Issues. She has also presented for a number of medical, academic and non-profit organizations as well as speech language hearing associations including Speechpathology.com, American Academy of Pediatrics: Council on Foster Care, Adoption and Kinship, New Jersey Taskforce on Child Abuse and Neglect, New Jersey, Long Island, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Wayne County, and Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Associations, New York City Department of Education, Greenwich Public Schools, Speech-Language & Audiology Canada as well as North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC).
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Birthday Giveaway Day Eight: Columbus Day Reader’s Informative Theater

Columbus Day Reader's Informative TheaterToday I am very exited to bring you DAY 8 of my Birthday Month Giveaways by raffling off a giveaway by All Y’All Need, which is a Columbus Day Reader’s Informative Theater.

This enchanting 24 page packet contains b &w as well as color scripts and character cards (King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella, Christopher Columbus as well as boy and girl) and a graphic organizer activity (I know, I want to know, I learned).

It’s perfect for teaching children facts about Columbus day in a fun, informative and interactive way.

You can find this product in All Y’All Need TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.
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Birthday Month Extravaganza: Week Two Giveaway Lineup

Birthday GraphicIn case you haven’t read my previous post on this topic, my birthday is in October so I decided that it will be fun to give away one product every day of the month (well almost). My SLP colleague bloggers and TPT sellers thought the same, so they donated many exciting materials and products for me to give away all throughout the month of October.

Every 7 days I will be posting a schedule of giveaway products as a jpeg with embedded pdf file containing links to the donor’s blog and product being given away so you’ll know in advance which giveaway you’d like to enter.

Below is a WEEK TWO lineup. Take a look at the posted schedule and decide whether you want to enter a few giveaways or all of them, it’s really up to you!   Each giveaway will last only one day so you better keep up because if you blink you’ll miss it!

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Birthday Giveaway Day Seven:Three Little Pigs Book Companion

The First Birthday Giveaway Week  wraps up with Three Little Pigs book companion giveaway from Home Sweet Speech Room.

This enormous 60 page companion pack contains activities for speech, language, and literacy. Materials include: sequencing cards, comparing and contrasting activities, question formulation, character vocabulary cards, comprehension questions, true/false cards, articulation cards, and much much more. Its perfect for working on some many different speech, language, and literacy goals and the materials will easily last you for 3-5 sessions!!

You can find this product in her TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win. a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Birthday Giveaway Day Six: Eliciting Language In Pre-verbal Children with ASD

Eliciting Language in pre-verbal ASD-thumbnailToday it is truly my pleasure to bring you a giveaway from Maria Del Duca of Communication Station Blog entitled: “Eliciting Language In Pre-verbal Children with ASD: A Review of Behavioral and Naturalistic Therapy Techniques“.

This is a wonderful 64 page presentation which reviews the research supporting the current behavioral and naturalistic therapy techniques for pre-verbal children with ASD and explains how they are used to elicit verbal communication.  It’s great for any educator who needs a detailed and highly comprehensive introductory crash course on the multitude of therapy techniques used with nonverbal children ASD.

Intended audiences:

  • Graduate SLP students
  • Clinical Fellows
  • New SLP clinicians
  • Mid Career Switch Clinicians
  • Ancillary educational and health professionals
  • Parents of children with ASD interested in learning more regarding research based therapy techniques

Select techniques discussed in this presentation:

  • Applied Behavioral Analysis
  • Discrete Trial Training
  • Verbal Behavior Analysis
  • Rapid Motor Imitation Antecedent
  • Milieu Communication Training
  • Pivotal Response Training
  • Total Communication
  • Picture Exchange Communication System
    • And much much more

I remember when I was just starting out in the field and worked with non-verbal children with ASD, I spent inordinate amount of time looking for and reading much of the research articles listed in Maria’s presentation to learn more re: these approaches. Have I had this material it would have saved me a huge amount of time and effort. The way its written is logical, informative and clear. I like how the limitations are included with each technique’s review, which is a bonus since to read about each technique’s limitations one typically needs to locate even MORE articles, thereby spending even more time on this endeavor.

You can find this wonderful product in Maria’s online store  30% off for the next two days (October 7 and 8) by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.

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Birthday Giveaway Day Five: Where do we belong?

Day Five of the Birthday Month Giveaway is “Where do We Belong?  A Problem Solving and Inference Activity Packet“ is brought to you courtesy of Speechy Musings. 

This is a very unique and interesting packet with a focus on deductive reasoning, problem solving, inferencing and perspective taking. It focuses on placing the appropriate family to the right house. Included are 6 families, 6 houses, 6 cars, and 6 pets. Students will have fun trying to infer which family belongs in with which house, car, and pet based on the provided information in the “application form”!  She also included blank versions of the activity so your students can participate as well and describe their families. Answer key is also provided.

This is an awesome executive function activity set for older elementary aged children because it requires a lot of focus on the details as well as an emphasis on going back to the “application form” to check if the requirements match specific family’s needs.  It’s great because it also exposes students to the practical details of daily life such as searching for the right house and car to suit your family’s needs based on the household budget, daily activities, and number of children.

You can find this product in her TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.

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Birthday Giveaway Day Four: Seasons UNO

seasons unoToday’s Birthday Month Giveaway “Seasons UNO” is brought to you courtesy of Lynda SLP 123. 

This game is played just like UNO. Each card contains a question about 1 of the 4 seasons. When a card is played, the student will answer the question printed on the card.

Lynda’s packet contains 100 cards:

  • 16 blue winter cards
  • 16 pink spring cards
  • 16 yellow summer cards
  • 16 orange fall cards
  • 2 skip cards in each color
  • 2 reverse cards in each color
  • 2 Draw-2 cards in each color
  • 8 WILD cards

Its terrific for reviewing the seasons in a fun creative way. You can find this product in her TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.

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Birthday Giveaway Day Three: Fall Into Speech and Language Pack

Today I am  bringing you DAY 3 of my Birthday Month Giveaways by raffling off a Fall into Speech and Language Pack from Felice the author of thedabblingspeechie blog.   

Included in this pack are various craftivities (tree, apples, leaves, turkey) and materials to target categories, multiple meaning words, articulation and synonyms/antonyms for older elementary children. A vocabulary sheet with the definitions of the multiple meaning words is also provided for the SLP.

Included articulation targets:

  • /f/ in initial medial and final position (written support without picture cards)
  • /s/ in initial medial and final position  (written support without picture cards)
  • /k/ in initial medial and final position  (written support without picture cards)
  • /l/ in initial medial and final position  (written support without picture cards)
  • /sp/, /st/ and /sw/ blends (written support without picture cards)

Included semantic flexibility targets: 

  • Categories (written support without picture cards)
  • Multiple meaning words (written support without picture cards)
  • Synonyms (written support without picture cards)
  • Category cards and mats (with written support and picture cards)

You can find this product in her TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.
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Birthday Giveaway Day Two: Book Companion for Fall Leaves Fall

Today I am  bringing you DAY 2 of my Birthday Month Giveaways by raffling off a book companion to Zoe Hall’s “Fall Leaves Fall” created by Kathy Grover of Speech All the Time blog.  

I absolutely love Kathy’s products for a number of reasons: they are TRULY thematic, engaging, and comprehensive. She also just happens to create book companions to some of my favorite children’s books of all time, and this product is no different.

This 35 page packet contains detailed lesson plans, materials and activities for a number of sessions (at least 3+) and is perfect for the preschool-early elementary age population.

She includes picture cards for some commonly associated fall words (e.g, football, apple cider, etc.), seasonal signs cards to identify the seasons by activities and items, a variety of games, mats, and color cards, two different levels of comprehension questions of reduced (with visual support) and increased complexity (without visual support), story based vocabulary words with antonyms (e.g, throw, pointy, etc) as well as some grammar (irregular past tense verb cards) and articulation (/k/ words and sentences) card activities.

You can find this product in her TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.

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Birthday Giveaway Day One: Book Companion for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves

lady leaves Today I am very exited to start DAY 1 of my Birthday Month Giveaways by raffling off a giveaway by Figuratively Speeching SLP, which is a book companion to Lucille Colandro’s “There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves”.

This is a lovely 33 page supplemental packet to the book which includes a variety of activities aimed at improving the student’s auditory processing (following one, two-step directions,and conditional directions), listening comprehension (story questions), vocabulary knowledge and use, sequencing ability, story retelling ability, phonological awareness skills (identifying the first sound in vocabulary words), articulation abilities (word lists and homework pages) and much much more. You can find this product in her TPT store by clicking HERE or you can enter my one day giveaway for a chance to win.


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Birthday Month Extravaganza: Week One Giveaway Lineup

Birthday GraphicMy birthday is in October so I decided that it will be fun to give away one product every day of the month (well almost). My SLP colleague bloggers and TPT sellers thought the same, so they donated many exciting materials and products for me to give away all throughout the month of October.

So every 7 days I will be posting a schedule of giveaway products as a jpeg with embedded pdf file containing links to the blog and product being given away so you’ll have a lead on which giveaway you’d like to enter. You can enter a few or you can enter them all, it’s really up to you!   Each giveaway will last only one day so you better keep up because if you blink you’ll miss it!Birthday Schedule Week 1