
February 2025 – page upgrade is underway – we’re rearranging the page and adding some new stuff, your patience is appreciated! If you can’t find something scroll down a bit further.
The resources here are free to use and download under Creative Commons copyright. This means you can use and share them but we would appreciate an email requesting permission if you want to rebrand the materials for your own practice or translate them into another language. Please acknowledge the source of the materials as appropriate.
- Evidence Brief on assessment, diagnosis and treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech This handout provides a brief summary of the current (January 2024) research evidence which can be used with funding agencies, schools and other health professionals.
Information for parents and carers about ReST treatment
- Parent Handout – General information for parents about ReST. This PDF will help you decide if ReST is the right treatment for an individual child. Use it to help guide discussions between the speech pathologist and the family.
- Readiness Checklist
Other resources for clinicians
- Manual This 2nd edition of the ReST manual contains detailed instructions about every step of ReST therapy. It should be used in conjunction with this website as they are interwoven.
- Polysyllabic words can be used for assessment purposes and/ or as a follow-up probe.
- Polysyllabic sentences are for older children who have less severe difficulties. They will challenge a child’s motor skill abilities.
- Take a look at the research page for open access (free) papers including a tutorial.
Therapy Materials
(For materials in languages other than English (Italiano, Dansk, Portugues) please follow this link)
English Language Materials
Word Lists for Therapy
These materials have been used in our studies to provide therapy or have been donated by other clinicians. You can use them freely and adapt them to your client. Please read the manual about how to choose sounds for your client. Therapy materials are available for the following sounds (listed bilabial to glottal):
b f d k (2 & 3 syllable words) | b f t g (2 syllable words) | b s tʃ g (3 syllable words) |
b s d g (2 & 3 syllable words, thanks to Suzanne Thompson) | b v d k (3 syllable words, thanks to Sorina Larsen) | bl f j k (2 & 3 syllable words with a cluster, thanks to Bella Kosasih) |
p θ ɹ g (3 syllable words) | m v t g (3 syllable words, thanks to Anna Bestevaar) | m v d k (4 syllable words, thanks to Dr Emma McLaughlin) |
p d θ g (3 syllable words, thanks to Sorina Larsen) | p s t g (3 syllable words in phrases) |
Note: not all sound sets are available as words for 12 sessions, some are single word sets, some are available as 2 syllable words but not 3 or 4 syllable words. If you create more sound sets, sessions or resources, please let us know and we will add them to the site. Huge thank you to everyone who has contributed so far.
Data Sheets with Stimuli
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These are modified versions of the data sheets we used in the research and data sheets donated by other Speech Language Pathologists. Please feel free to modify the forms as you need to but remember that systematic data collection is really important to step up and step down your goal hierarchy.
Use the data sheets if the stimuli are appropriate for your client. To modify the stimuli to meet your client’s needs, use the ‘replace all’ function in Word. Select one of the ‘all 12 sessions data sheets’ and one of the ‘all 12 sessions PowerPoints’ files. There is a separate version of these for phrases and for single words.
Open the document, in the data sheet select the column with the treatment words, use the ‘replace all’ function (Ctrl+H) and save the file with a new name. For example, to change from our list with fdbk stimuli to ftbk, open the data sheet file, select the column with our words in it, use the menu to go to ‘replace’, then enter ‘d’ in the ‘find’ box and ‘t’ in the ‘replace’ box and select ‘replace all’. You have just created a new set of words. You can also do the same with the PowerPoint slides or the cards if you are going to use them.
Blank Data Sheet
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Use the blank data sheet if you have to create new words and cannot use any of the existing word lists. Once you have made the 20 words, randomise them 5 times using an online list randomiser and then paste the 5 lists into the first sheet. This will give you a data sheet for the first session. You will then need to do the same for the other 11 sessions. Although you can use the initial five randomisations again, don’t use the sets in the same order again. The asterisk in the feedback column tells you when to give feedback, it was also randomised.
Additional resources
Example Visual Timetable
Visual Aid for ReST therapy
Thanks to Rebecca Reinkie.
Blank ReST Treatment Data Graph (XL workbook)
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Use this excel sheet to create treatment data graphs to see how your client is progressing. All you have to do is place your data (numbers) in the relevant boxes, and a graph will automatically be made for you. Most children like to see their progress on a daily basis so share it with them and their parents in prepractice or at the end of the session.
Words, cards, data sheets and other resources
2 Syllables (also look below)
- 2 syllable ReST cards /f d b k/
- 2 syllable ReST cards /g f t b/
- 2 Syllable ReST cards /k f j bl/
- 2 syllable ReST wordlist /f b d k/
- 2 syllable ReST wordlist /g f t b/
- 2 Syllable ReST wordlist /k f j bl/
- 2 Syllable ReST data sheets /b f t g/
3 Syllables (also look below)
- 3 Syllable ReST cards /b tʃ s g
- 3 Syllable ReST cards /k f j bl/
- 3 syllable ReST wordlist /b tʃ s g/
- 3 syllable ReST wordlist /f b d k/
- 3 Syllable ReST wordlist /k f j bl/
- 3 Syllable ReST wordlist /p r th g/
- 3 Syllables ReST /b t f g/ Sessions 1-12
- 3 Syllable ReST data sheet /b f d k/ 1-12 sessions
- 2 syllable and 3 syllable words (bsgd)
- 2 syllable and 3 syllables words (bsgd excel spreadsheet)
- Data sheet
- Data sheet for all 12 sessions – phrases /p s t g/
- PowerPoint for all 12 sessions – phrases /p s t g/
- 4-Syllable Word Powerpoint /m v d k/.