FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY – (Expected Delivery in Q1 of 2027.)
A Printed /dʒ/ Articulation & AAC Speech Therapy Storybook | Pretzel Learning, LLC
Join Juniper on an imaginative adventure in this colorful, hand-illustrated speech therapy storybook designed to support articulation, language development, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), emotional regulation, and meaningful communication!
It's July, and Juniper is excited for a special trip to the park with her dad. With her AAC device by her side, she's ready to explore!
But today, Juniper's imagination makes the familiar park feel much bigger than usual.
A playground swing becomes a ship sailing across a wild sea. A noisy garbage truck transforms into a giant green dragon. And an ordinary park bridge becomes a narrow crossing over a deep canyon!
Each imaginary adventure brings excitement, but sometimes Juniper's vivid imagination makes familiar situations feel frightening.
With reassurance from her dad and support from her AAC device, Juniper learns to communicate her feelings, request help, and remind herself when she's safe.
Will Juniper be ready for another adventure?
Unlike traditional children's books that are later adapted for therapeutic use, Juniper's Adventure was developed specifically for speech-language therapy from the very beginning. Its narrative, vocabulary, illustrations, and speech sound targets were intentionally selected to support meaningful communication practice.
Designed for SLPs and SLPAs working with individual students or mixed-goal therapy groups, the storybook provides opportunities to address articulation, language, AAC, and social communication objectives through a single narrative.
A distinguishing feature of this book is its natural integration of AAC into the story's progression. Juniper's communication directly influences how she responds to challenging experiences, demonstrating functional communication, self-advocacy, and emotional awareness.
The 28-page illustrated narrative places a primary emphasis on the /dʒ/ sound, with additional opportunities to practice affricates, fricatives, and alveolar consonants.
Primary Articulation Target:
/dʒ/ – As in Juniper, July, jostled, and giant
Additional Articulation Targets:
/tʃ/ – chose, crunch
/ʃ/ – ship, shift, shoes
/t/ – tree, tapped, truck
/d/ – Dad, device, dragon
/s/ and /z/ – sea, safe, sway
/r/ – ready, road, bridge, around
The included articulation tracker identifies the following target occurrences throughout the narrative:
/dʒ/: 59 occurrences
/tʃ/: 11 occurrences
/ʃ/: 30 occurrences
/t/: 128 occurrences
/d/: 127 occurrences
/s/ and /z/: 119 combined occurrences
The story also contains numerous opportunities for /r/ production, although /r/ is intentionally excluded from the printed tracker to reduce visual clutter.
These documented speech sound opportunities help clinicians locate targets and collect articulation data while maintaining the natural flow of the story.
One of the most distinctive features of Juniper's Adventure is its intentional representation of AAC as a functional part of everyday communication.
Throughout the story, Juniper uses her AAC device to respond to questions, identify objects, express emotions, and communicate her needs.
When her imagination transforms the playground swing into a ship sailing across rough waters, Juniper begins to feel frightened. After noticing her dad nearby, she uses her device to say:
"I—Only—Imagine."
This recurring phrase helps Juniper distinguish her imagination from the world around her.
The story also includes functional communication opportunities such as:
YES – Responding to questions
I AM SAFE – Expressing reassurance
TRUCK – Identifying an object
HELP, PLEASE – Requesting assistance through signing
ALL DONE – Communicating completion
ADVENTURE AGAIN? – Initiating another shared activity
Juniper also uses a manual sign when requesting help on the bridge, demonstrating that communication can occur through multiple modalities, including AAC devices, signs, gestures, and spoken language.
These examples provide opportunities for clinicians to model functional vocabulary, requesting, commenting, self-advocacy, and supportive communication strategies.
Throughout the story, Juniper encounters three imaginative situations that initially feel exciting but become overwhelming.
A playground swing becomes a sailing ship, a garbage truck becomes a dragon, and a park bridge becomes a crossing over a deep canyon.
Each experience follows a meaningful pattern: Juniper imagines something, experiences an emotion, communicates her needs, and receives support.
This repeated structure provides opportunities to explore emotional identification, recognizing environmental cues, requesting help, and distinguishing imagined experiences from reality.
It also supports narrative comprehension and language development.
Students can compare Juniper's imagination with her actual surroundings, explain why she makes certain connections, identify contextual clues, and describe how her emotions change throughout the story.
Clinicians can also use the three adventures for sequencing, predicting, inferencing, and story retelling.
The supportive interactions between Juniper and her dad provide opportunities to discuss empathy, reassurance, independence, and responding to another person's communication needs.
Primary Articulation: /dʒ/ in connected speech
Additional Articulation: /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /r/
AAC and Multimodal Communication: AAC modeling, signing, gestures, and functional vocabulary
Self-Advocacy: Requesting help, expressing needs, and communicating preferences
Expressive and Receptive Language: Descriptive vocabulary, comprehension, and functional communication
Narrative Skills: Sequencing, retelling, WH questions, and story comprehension
Higher-Level Language: Inferencing, predictions, cause-and-effect reasoning, and comparing imagined versus real situations
Emotional Development: Identifying feelings, self-regulation, and recognizing environmental triggers
Social Communication: Perspective-taking, supportive interactions, and communicating with others
At Pretzel Learning, LLC, we believe speech therapy storybooks should serve as a foundation for meaningful, connected learning and not simply as supplemental reading materials.
That's why Juniper's Adventure was developed with coordinated articulation, language, and phonological activities in mind from the beginning.
These companion resources build directly upon the book's characters, vocabulary, narrative events, and targeted speech sounds, allowing clinicians to reinforce familiar concepts across multiple therapy sessions.
Companion activities may include articulation practice, phoneme tracking, sound discrimination, vocabulary development, sequencing, AAC-based communication activities, and language-based exercises.
Coordinated companion activities are available separately as digital downloads on the Pretzel Learning website. These supplemental resources are not included with the purchase of the printed storybook.
Whether used independently or alongside its companion activities, Juniper's Adventure provides clinicians with a flexible resource for addressing diverse communication goals while keeping students engaged in a story about imagination, communication, and growing confidence.
Bring storytelling and speech therapy together with Pretzel Learning, where every story is built with communication in mind.
FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY – (Expected Delivery in Q1 of 2027.)
A Printed /dʒ/ Articulation & AAC Speech Therapy Storybook | Pretzel Learning, LLC
Join Juniper on an imaginative adventure in this colorful, hand-illustrated speech therapy storybook designed to support articulation, language development, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), emotional regulation, and meaningful communication!
It's July, and Juniper is excited for a special trip to the park with her dad. With her AAC device by her side, she's ready to explore!
But today, Juniper's imagination makes the familiar park feel much bigger than usual.
A playground swing becomes a ship sailing across a wild sea. A noisy garbage truck transforms into a giant green dragon. And an ordinary park bridge becomes a narrow crossing over a deep canyon!
Each imaginary adventure brings excitement, but sometimes Juniper's vivid imagination makes familiar situations feel frightening.
With reassurance from her dad and support from her AAC device, Juniper learns to communicate her feelings, request help, and remind herself when she's safe.
Will Juniper be ready for another adventure?
Unlike traditional children's books that are later adapted for therapeutic use, Juniper's Adventure was developed specifically for speech-language therapy from the very beginning. Its narrative, vocabulary, illustrations, and speech sound targets were intentionally selected to support meaningful communication practice.
Designed for SLPs and SLPAs working with individual students or mixed-goal therapy groups, the storybook provides opportunities to address articulation, language, AAC, and social communication objectives through a single narrative.
A distinguishing feature of this book is its natural integration of AAC into the story's progression. Juniper's communication directly influences how she responds to challenging experiences, demonstrating functional communication, self-advocacy, and emotional awareness.
The 28-page illustrated narrative places a primary emphasis on the /dʒ/ sound, with additional opportunities to practice affricates, fricatives, and alveolar consonants.
Primary Articulation Target:
/dʒ/ – As in Juniper, July, jostled, and giant
Additional Articulation Targets:
/tʃ/ – chose, crunch
/ʃ/ – ship, shift, shoes
/t/ – tree, tapped, truck
/d/ – Dad, device, dragon
/s/ and /z/ – sea, safe, sway
/r/ – ready, road, bridge, around
The included articulation tracker identifies the following target occurrences throughout the narrative:
/dʒ/: 59 occurrences
/tʃ/: 11 occurrences
/ʃ/: 30 occurrences
/t/: 128 occurrences
/d/: 127 occurrences
/s/ and /z/: 119 combined occurrences
The story also contains numerous opportunities for /r/ production, although /r/ is intentionally excluded from the printed tracker to reduce visual clutter.
These documented speech sound opportunities help clinicians locate targets and collect articulation data while maintaining the natural flow of the story.
One of the most distinctive features of Juniper's Adventure is its intentional representation of AAC as a functional part of everyday communication.
Throughout the story, Juniper uses her AAC device to respond to questions, identify objects, express emotions, and communicate her needs.
When her imagination transforms the playground swing into a ship sailing across rough waters, Juniper begins to feel frightened. After noticing her dad nearby, she uses her device to say:
"I—Only—Imagine."
This recurring phrase helps Juniper distinguish her imagination from the world around her.
The story also includes functional communication opportunities such as:
YES – Responding to questions
I AM SAFE – Expressing reassurance
TRUCK – Identifying an object
HELP, PLEASE – Requesting assistance through signing
ALL DONE – Communicating completion
ADVENTURE AGAIN? – Initiating another shared activity
Juniper also uses a manual sign when requesting help on the bridge, demonstrating that communication can occur through multiple modalities, including AAC devices, signs, gestures, and spoken language.
These examples provide opportunities for clinicians to model functional vocabulary, requesting, commenting, self-advocacy, and supportive communication strategies.
Throughout the story, Juniper encounters three imaginative situations that initially feel exciting but become overwhelming.
A playground swing becomes a sailing ship, a garbage truck becomes a dragon, and a park bridge becomes a crossing over a deep canyon.
Each experience follows a meaningful pattern: Juniper imagines something, experiences an emotion, communicates her needs, and receives support.
This repeated structure provides opportunities to explore emotional identification, recognizing environmental cues, requesting help, and distinguishing imagined experiences from reality.
It also supports narrative comprehension and language development.
Students can compare Juniper's imagination with her actual surroundings, explain why she makes certain connections, identify contextual clues, and describe how her emotions change throughout the story.
Clinicians can also use the three adventures for sequencing, predicting, inferencing, and story retelling.
The supportive interactions between Juniper and her dad provide opportunities to discuss empathy, reassurance, independence, and responding to another person's communication needs.
Primary Articulation: /dʒ/ in connected speech
Additional Articulation: /tʃ/, /ʃ/, /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, and /r/
AAC and Multimodal Communication: AAC modeling, signing, gestures, and functional vocabulary
Self-Advocacy: Requesting help, expressing needs, and communicating preferences
Expressive and Receptive Language: Descriptive vocabulary, comprehension, and functional communication
Narrative Skills: Sequencing, retelling, WH questions, and story comprehension
Higher-Level Language: Inferencing, predictions, cause-and-effect reasoning, and comparing imagined versus real situations
Emotional Development: Identifying feelings, self-regulation, and recognizing environmental triggers
Social Communication: Perspective-taking, supportive interactions, and communicating with others
At Pretzel Learning, LLC, we believe speech therapy storybooks should serve as a foundation for meaningful, connected learning and not simply as supplemental reading materials.
That's why Juniper's Adventure was developed with coordinated articulation, language, and phonological activities in mind from the beginning.
These companion resources build directly upon the book's characters, vocabulary, narrative events, and targeted speech sounds, allowing clinicians to reinforce familiar concepts across multiple therapy sessions.
Companion activities may include articulation practice, phoneme tracking, sound discrimination, vocabulary development, sequencing, AAC-based communication activities, and language-based exercises.
Coordinated companion activities are available separately as digital downloads on the Pretzel Learning website. These supplemental resources are not included with the purchase of the printed storybook.
Whether used independently or alongside its companion activities, Juniper's Adventure provides clinicians with a flexible resource for addressing diverse communication goals while keeping students engaged in a story about imagination, communication, and growing confidence.
Bring storytelling and speech therapy together with Pretzel Learning, where every story is built with communication in mind.
