More than 15,000 interactive activities
Covers a wide range of speech, language, and literacy targets
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What is eLr?
- Thousands of interactive therapy activities
- Speech sound disorders and oral language
- Phonological awareness and reading & spelling
- Sentence processing and oral narrative
- For face-to-face or teletherapy sessions
- Free client access for home practice
- Modifiable tasks to suit individual client needs
- Appropriate for any English accent
- Homophones
Paired list sentence completion - Sentence processing
SceneTyper - Consonant ("ch") digraphs
WordSearch - Sentence structure
SentenceMaker Explore for yourself
Select any of these
example eLr activity screens
to view more detailsThen click that screen to try
that activity yourself- Understanding concept words
IconPositioner - Practising /f/ initial words
SpinPics - Automatic word recognition
ConnectWords - Auditory discrimination
WhiteboardPics
- These are eight out of the 59 different eLr activity "models" for you to try
eLr has no speech or sound so you can deliver instructions, modelling, and reinforcement appropriate to any client language level or other needs.
Look for the
(help button) in the top right of each task for instructions and tips. - Literacy and language
Frank, a 10 year old with literacy difficulty, is learning homophones (words spelt differently but pronounced the same). He reads a sentence and chooses the correct word. He makes up more sentences with the words to extend the activity. - Sentence structure - learning the elements of a sentence
Strengthens the ability to process different sentence parts (roles), such as the "verb" (action), who or what is the "actor", and who or what was "acted on" (thematic information). The student rearranges the phrases or words to make their own sentence. Colour coding is optional. - Reading and spelling
A word search activity to encourage letter-sound knowledge, accurate decoding, and mastery of automatic word recognition. Modify task by selecting different arrays of "fill" letters. Extend learning by having the student write the words they have found. - Mastering "wh" questions and sentence structure
Mario, a young child with language delay learns to respond to "who", "what doing", "what", and "where" questions. He clicks each button to see how that element changes. His language flexibility improves as he says sentences to match the picture. The written sentence is displayed to subtly reinforce literacy skills. - Language development, concept words
Kim, a young child with language delay, increases her understanding of "through / around". She produces the concept word, a phrase, or a sentence (depending on language level) to match the location of the icons. Encourage further expressive language by dragging the icons to different locations. - Speech sounds, articulation
Mario, a young child, has a speech sound delay. Use this board game to provide lots of repetition of target words. Clinician decides whether he produces the word by itself, or within a phrase or sentence. Extend oral language by encouraging discussion about the target words. - Reading and spelling - the /ee/ sound spelled with "ea"
Use this "Connect Four" type game to encourage automatic recognition and accurate spelling of target words. Can be played interactively with the learner, or the learner can play against the computer, choosing between an easy, medium, or hard level. - Auditory discrimination - focus on the /s/ sound
The instructor says one of the word pairs. The client listens and clicks on the matching picture, developing discrimination of sounds at the beginning of words. Strengthen literacy by showing the word under each picture. Encourage accuracy of production by having the client say each word.
Meet the team
B SpTher, MS SpPath, CPSP
B App Sc (Sp Path), CPSP
Toni Seiler and Anna Breakell are Australian speech pathologists who together have more than six decades of clinical experience, including work with adults and children in acute, rehabilitation and education settings, and specialist work with children with complex disorders and developmental delays. Both are practising Members of Speech Pathology Australia. Together, Toni & Anna have created the structure & content of eLr.
Toni completed her PhD in 2015 focusing on intervention for children with severe and persistent word reading impairment (dyslexia). She continues to do research; consults with schools to support students with speech, language, and literacy difficulties; and provides teletherapy for people with a range of communication and literacy disorders.
Anna has worked with both adults and children in a range of settings. She has provided early intervention to children with autism and intellectual disability and feels privileged to have provided ongoing therapy into their adult years. Anna has also made a major contribution to eLr with her graphic skills. She lives with her husband and two sons in Melbourne, and enjoys regular walks with her two Jack Russells!
BVSc, Dip Comp Sci
Rob Seiler, originally a veterinary pathologist, and more recently a computer consultant, has worked with Toni since 1972 to create paper based, and later computerised, speech therapy resources for her clinical use. In 1994 we began to transfer many of our ideas to the internet. We live in rural Victoria, east of Melbourne.
eLr represents the culmination of the efforts of the three of us, to provide clinicians, teachers, and clients with comprehensive, easily available resources intended to form a basis for interactive therapy sessions. We hope you'll find it useful.