Negation Picture Cards

About this resource

A picture card for every object, and two cards for every object: a plain card ("Is it a dog?") and the identical picture again with a drawn "not allowed" mark laid over it ("Is it NOT a dog?"). The picture never changes -- only the question does -- so the child answers yes or no and names the picture either way. This is a naming/yes-no task, not a diagnostic tool, and the file never decides what counts as a correct answer; that stays your own scoring rule.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 19 pages, 397 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 24 picture cards in full color, each a big cut-apart piece laid edge to edge in a 6-across, 4-down grid so cutting is a few straight lines -- 12 objects (dog, cat, cow, apple, banana, carrot, hat, car, bus, chair, bed, door), each as a plain card and a negated card carrying a drawn "not allowed" mark over the identical picture
• The same 24 cut pieces again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier -- the "not allowed" mark drawn solid black so it stays visible when ink runs light
• The "not allowed" mark is drawn vector art built for this file, not a licensed icon

Probe And Track

• 3 quick picture probe forms (A, B, C), 8 pictures each -- both cards for four objects on each form, so the three forms together are the whole 24-card deck with no overlap
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 12 objects, both cards, on one sheet, with a verbatim column for what was actually said
• Data Log -- 17 rows: date, form, correct, out of, percent, notes
• Percent Graph -- 14 probes across, 0-100 percent grid, a field for the team's own criterion
• Caseload Summary -- 16 rows: student, type (Plain / Negated), baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home -- a family update built from five of the same pictures used in session, a weekly practice table, and lines for the yes-or-no questions a family noticed outside of practice time
• Phrase Bank -- 18 observable-language starters across 5 groups (accuracy, what was said, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page)
• Filled Example -- an invented student, eight probes, every percent re-counted from its own row

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, graph, caseload page, family page, and probe-form headers, or print and use a pen. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a norm-referenced or standardized test.

It carries no elicitation, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as a correct yes-or-no answer, a criterion, or a typical rate for answering negative questions -- every one of those is this clinician's own call, written once and reused every session. Pictures replace the printed word list a child cannot yet read; they do not replace the clinician's scoring rule.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists and special education teams with young or pre-reading students on a negation, yes/no-question, or morphosyntax goal, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

Pictures: Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0 (color); Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, MIT License (ink-saver black and white). The "not allowed" mark is drawn vector art, not a licensed icon.