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The tools Nicole reaches for every day

Free screeners, assessment charts and references for SLPs and students. Download them, print them and use them in your next session.

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First page of the Model and Replica Chart Assessment

Made by Nicole

Model & Replica Chart Assessment

A quick addition to a comprehensive speech assessment for your more challenging cases. It guides you to look at syllable position against the child's current skills, so the treatment plan follows from what you find.

You'll be amazed how much you learn when you take the time to do an independent analysis of a child's skill level.

Fill it in right in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Mac Preview, Chrome or Edge, then save it (in a browser, use Download) before you close it. Your answers stay in the file.

Download the MRC 0.5 MB

Made by Nicole · Coming soon

Connecting the Dots Planner

A free, interactive planner that walks you through the principles of motor learning for one child, then helps you plan and run the session. Every suggestion links back to a principle.

1The child
2Pre-practice
3Learning stage
4Practice
5Cueing
6Feedback
7In session
8The plan

Find where the child is on the path from acquisition to learning
Set practice conditions, cueing and feedback for that stage
Track every trial in session and see when to fade support
Download a filled-in PDF of your plan when you're done

A companion to Nicole's invited session at the 2026 ASHA Convention, Connecting the Dots of Motor-Based Intervention: Principles of Motor Learning in Real-World Practice. The planner will be available here soon.

Free for clinicians

Three CAS tools Nicole uses in sessions

First page of the ProCAD Auditory-Perceptual Feature Rating Checklist

ChecklistIuzzini-Seigel, Allison & Stoeckel, 2022

ProCAD Feature Rating Checklist

Rate auditory-perceptual speech features to help tell childhood apraxia of speech apart from pediatric dysarthria. Includes the ProCAD diagnostic flow chart.

Download PDF 4.5 MB

FrameworkCase, Caspari, Aggarwal & Stoeckel, 2024

ABCDs of Goal Writing for CAS

A step-by-step framework for writing motor-based goals for children with CAS: Audience, Behavior, Conditions and Degree.

Download PDF 5.6 MB

ChartStrand, 2020

DTTC Hierarchy Chart

The DTTC steps from simultaneous production to spontaneous speech, with rate and prosody changes and the cues to adjust as the child responds.

Download PDF 3.7 MB

More essential resources

Screeners and references

Cover of the Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill (DEMSS) Manual

AssessmentStrand & McCauley · Brookes Publishing

DEMSS: Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill

The dynamic assessment Nicole relies on for young children with severe speech sound disorders: it shows how much motor planning is part of the picture, and helps tell CAS apart from other disorders. Watch Nicole use it.

Get the manual from Brookes

ScreenerFrom Mommy Speech Therapy and Little Bee Speech

Articulation Screener

One of Nicole's favorite free articulation screeners. Point to each picture, mark the sound in the initial, medial and final position, and see at a glance where a child's errors fall.

Download PDF 0.9 MB

ScreenerClinical checklist