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Looking for a cheap, easy to use therapy material? How about paper bags? I love using paper bags for a variety of activities. Here are some simple ways I have incorporated paper bags into my therapy sessions. 1. Puppets My students love to use puppets to "eat" their articulation cards or other target cards. They also love to use them to tell stories. Making puppets from paper bags is a great, inexpensive way to engage your students in a variety of activities! You can easily make a puppet to match any book or story that you are using. Be creative- your kids will love it! I made these monster puppets with my son this week. They were so easy to make! We used a little paint, glue, and card stock with our paper bags. I found the idea for these cute monsters from this pin: Paper Bag Monster Puppets 2. Describe It To Me This activity is also super easy. I throw a bunch of items into a bag. My students reach in and grab something (no peeking!) to describe. The students remove the object and then describe it using a variety of descriptors. This is a great way to incorporate your Expanding Expression Tool (EET) with describing real objects. Sometimes I will even get really small, cheap objects that the students can keep if they give me a description using all of the beads on the EET. 3. What is in the bag? This is a great activity to work on a student's deductive reasoning skills. I put an object into the bag (students do not see- again, no peeking). Students need to ask questions about my object. This is similar to the game Headbanz. 4. Categories Place pictures of categories on the bag and collect items or pictures to place in each category. I used pictures from my Category Sorting activity. I like to put a piece of Velcro on each bag so that I can interchange the categories without having to get a new bag each time. 5. Collect in a bag Put any kind of card into the bag. My students love to decorate a bag and then collect their cards. 6. Paper bag books You can use two paper bags to make a book that will have two pockets. Simply fold two bags in half and then put the two openings touching each other to make two pockets for a book. Staple together, and done! You have a paper bag book that you can use to target a variety of goals. I used this one to put some of my new sequencing cards in for a student to take home. I have also made these Articulation Paper Bag Books. These are so fun to make with students and send home! Here is a link to a freebie that contains blank frames to use on your paper bags, as well as labels for What is in the bag? and Describe It To Me. Have fun using your paper bags!
How to help a speech delayed child | From speech therapy activities to PECS communication boards, we’ve rounded up 32 tips & activities to get you started!
Are you a speech-language pathologist looking for speech therapy activities for preschoolers? This article contains tons of effective activities and speech therapy ideas that will motivate young children to work on a variety of goals. It includes tips for engaging preschoolers during speech therapy sessions, as well as ideas for movement, sensory play, and recommended
In my experience, gestalt language processing (GLP) is a new concept to most parents I talk with. Even for speech-language pathologists, GLP was barely, if at all, touched on in graduate school. This guide provides a 19 page, printer-ready: ♡ Caregiver interview GLP questions document ♡ What signs may be indicative of being a GLP ♡ Handouts on what GLP is for parents ♡ Handouts on strategies parents can implement at home ♡ A handout on examples on what modelling will look like for a stage 1 GLP This guide was designed to help fellow speech-language pathologists to navigate and support gestalt language processors in the early stages.
If your child struggles with articulation, fluency, voice regulation, understanding and expressing himself through language, or nonverbal autism, these speech therapy activities are a great place to start!
If your child has autism and/or sensory processing disorder, we’ve got 16 simple to set-up oral motor activities for kids to help with a variety of challenges like picky eating and inappropriate chewing, sucking & biting.
Language Arts/Reading Comprehension Strategies. Use structure word strategies to support students. Great for RTI, intervention, small group, enrichment, ESL, special education resource/supplemental instruction, autism, speech therapy. Other Verbalizing Photos and Visualizing Text products: V&V Structure Words Word Cards and Word Banks V&V Structure Words Work Mat V&V Daily Slides Activities V&V Verbalize Worksheets V&V Structure Words Mini-Posters V&V Structure Word Chart and Cards These are SW mini-posters that align with my Structure Words Cards and Chart. They are great for use in a general education, special education, or ELL classroom to increase student comprehension skills.
Here is a list of very easy at home activities that you can practice throughout the day to strengthen and improve auditory processing in your child.
We are constantly working with our students trying to get them to keep the conversation going. For many students, starting the conversation can be challenging. Many students require prompting in order to talk to their peers. Whether it is working with a group on a project in class, sitting at lunch, or at ...
If you are looking to create a functional communication system for your autistic child at home, why not make a homemade PECS binder? You can use picture cards for autism printables to make a binder
It's time to get outside! Spring is here and I am sharing a few ideas to help you bring speech therapy outside!
Playdough has been a staple in my speech therapy bag for years. Here you'll find speech and language goals linked to playdough activities.
How to help a speech delayed child | From speech therapy activities to PECS communication boards, we’ve rounded up 32 tips & activities to get you started!
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Are you on a hunt for free speech therapy online activities and games that are perfect for teletherapy? Then be sure to check out this list!
Hey busy SLP! Ever find yourself in a therapy rut or in need of some articulation activities ASAP? I’ve got you covered! This post is full of 12 quick and easy articulation activities to help you achieve as many target trials as possible, without resorting to the ever-tedious drill, drill, drill! Articulation Activitie
If your child struggles with articulation, fluency, voice regulation, understanding and expressing himself through language, or nonverbal autism, these speech therapy activities are a great place to start!
Getting started with PECS for autism has never been easier than with this collection of free printables and downloads, PECS pictures, books, schedules, and boards, and speech therapy activities for nonverbal children!
Easy, quick print parent handouts describing gestalt language processing strategies that can be utilized and examples of models they can incorporate throughout their day with their child! If you are a busy early intervention, specialize in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or work in a private practice with families --- this is the resource for you! Page 1: Gestalt language processing (GLP) strategies Page 2: GLP strategies continued Page 3: Examples of GLP models This is perfect for therapists working with gestalt language processors in the stage 1!
It's no secret that I love toys and including play into my therapy sessions. If you haven't already downloaded my FREE Play-Based Speech Therapy Homework you can download it HERE! One toy that I use often but have never really included is a shape sorter. Sometimes this one may seem a little "babyish" but I am always surprised by my kiddos who want to play with it. This toy can be used to target many language goals and I thought I'd put together a little list of ten goals you can target with a shape sorter. I usually bring it out with my Pre-K-Kinder population or my younger students who have autism. Please know these are just general ideas, really the possibilities are endless and you may need to adjust to what your student needs. Here are some ideas of how to use a shape sorter to target language skills! First is obvious, naming or identifying colors. Now with this particular sorter, I am limited to five colors but usually, that is a good number to start with. You can give directions such as "Give me a purple block." or ask questions "What color is the triangle?" to target this goal. Next is requesting! This is a goal I work on often, many of my kiddos enjoy independent or parallel play and are used to grabbing what they want. But often I want to encourage cooperative play where they acknowledge a partner playing with them, not just next to them. I will hold the sorter bucket with the blocks and put the top in front of the student. Or I may hold all the blocks but give them the bucket with the top. Then prompt them to request what they want using as much detail as possible. My end goal would be for them to verbalize "I want a red square please!" or "Can I have the purple circle?" but we will work up to that with maybe just verbalizing or signing "more" or "please" at first. You may have to use some more structure when playing to target following directions by withholding some of the blocks. You could maybe give your student half the blocks and you keep half. Give them directions while handing one of your blocks such as "Put this block in the bucket" or "Stack this block on the star". Understanding quantities can be tricky for my younger kiddos. With the blocks, you can work on understanding "more", "some", "all" and "none". You can sort the blocks into two unequal groups and ask which group has more. You can instruct the student to put all the blocks in the bucket. You can ask the student to give you "some" blocks. You can show them an empty bucket and ask how many are inside. This one can go hand-in-hand with following directions. Prompt the student to give you a block with negation. For example "Find a block that is NOT red" or "Give me a block that is NOT round". You can use the top of sorter to match or you can put a set of blocks in a row and encourage your student to match them up with another set of blocks as shown in the picture. Positional Words, Spatial Concepts, or prepositions...whatever you call them they are all essentially the same and you can use the sorter to target them! The easiest positional words to target with the sorter are "in", "out", "on", "off", "under" and "over". You can either have the student follow your direction "Put the square on the triangle" or answer a question "Where is the orange block?" while holding it over or under another object/block. Take turns putting the blocks in, taking them out, requesting, lining them up, naming them, counting them...any of the skills you are working with! Count the blocks, it may be easiest to put them all in a straight line to help work on one-to-one correspondence when counting. For older students (end of kinder, 1st grade), you can use the blocks to count by 5's or 10's. And last but not least you can work on naming or identifying the shapes. Ask the student "What shape is this?" while pointing to the block. Request a block by naming the shape such as "Can I have a star?". If your student is good with naming/identifying the basic shapes work on the attributes instead. For example "What shape has three points?" or "Give me a shape that has four sides". That's it! One little toy and so many possibilities!
Potato Head has many uses in speech therapy, from following and giving directions to articulation. See some of my favorites!
Core vocabulary is an evidenced-based set of words particularly useful for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users. I've personally seen huge growth in expressive language skills of AAC users after only a few therapy sessions of instruction with core words. Core words are what make up 80% of our everyday utterances. The power of core words lies within
What can we do for students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing? This guest post on Speechy Musings shares a few tips for language therapy for these students.
We've all had 'em if you are a school-based speech-language pathologist. The challenges are real, especially as groups grow larger. And they are, with so many
Functional life skills activities round-up! Discover resources to download and use in speech therapy and the classroom.
I’m super excited to announce the return of Wild About Books Wednesday! If you’re new to my blog, each Wednesday I’ll be discussing a new book and sharing ideas about how to use that book to enhance language skills! Books are the perfect therapy tools and can be used to target a wide array of ... Read More about Dragons Love Tacos (Plus Freebie!)
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Planning for Teletherapy can be so challenging and time consuming! Here is a list of all of my favorite tele-therapy websites to help make planning easier!
I needed more NO PREP speech therapy ideas to get me through this season. Therapy in April and May can feel redundant and... boring (*gasp* I said it!). Blue ta
Speech therapy compare and contrast examples, worksheets, and teaching tips, plus my best speech therapy IEP goals for classroom success!
What is joint attention? It is a skill that is required in order for a child to learn how to speak. Learning to talk doesn't seem that difficult, however a lot of skills must be accomplished prior to first words being spoken. Let me explain why...
Toy cars are great for developing early language skills. I've shared 5 ways you can use toy cars to support early language in your therapy sessions.
Teletherapy social skills activities for kids and teens! Discover favorite websites, apps, and activities that can be used digitally.
Here are some simple speech therapy activities for toddlers you can easily do at home! Find out how you can help your toddler learn to talk.
