Get 10 activity ideas for using AAC in teletherapy. From hidden pictures to virtual field trips, these creative activities will make your virtual speech therapy sessions engaging, interesting, and fun for AAC users.
Story grammar is the workhorse of speech therapy! Teach narrative elements and watch personal stories and expository skills grow too!
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The Cranium Game is entertaining and educational for school aged children. Using Cranium for Speech Therapy is ideal for furthering vocabulary building, articulation and reading. Cranium for Speech Therapy – The Basics: Number of Players: 4 or more Ages: 12+ Target : Teaches vocabulary, creativity, reading and question
The beginning of a new school year is always exciting for students as well as educators–I still feel the thrill several years after I’ve left the public schools to start my private practice. Everything is fresh and new–paper, name tags, friends, teachers and backpacks.
Who said making inferences has to be boring? This no prep, highly engaging set of inferencing BOOM Cards™️ helps students infer and explain information from clues within narrative texts during distance learning and in-person lessons! As students use clues to figure out who has each locker in the story, they will also build important language skills including oral expression, deductive reasoning, problem-solving, comparing and contrasting, answering WH questions and critical thinking. This interactive deck of BOOM Cards™️ includes: 12 Yearbook Pages 12 Filled Lockers Graphic Organizer - for making inferences and listing evidence 12 "Why" Question Charts - for inferring why specific items were placed in each locker "What Does Not Belong?" Locker Activity Locker Item Attributes Activity Venn Diagram for Comparing and Contrasting Specific Students/Lockers Student Name Inferencing Activity BONUS Locker Open-Ended Discussion Question Specific skills targeted include: Inferencing Why Questions Comparing and Contrasting (using Venn Diagrams) Oral Language Categorization Negation (“What Does Not Belong?”) Attributes Narrative Language Critical Thinking Skills Due to the realistic illustrations embedded throughout this highly visual resource, it is appropriate for a wide-age range of students. This highly interactive resource can be used in individual sessions, small group instruction or as a whole class lesson. This motivating packet is designed to stimulate discussions that synthesize background knowledge as well as new information acquired through text and visual clues. This no prep resource has everything you need to make inferencing practice motivating and memorable for your students! BOOM Cards™️ are extremely easy to use! CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE INFER AND EXPLAIN ACTIVITIES! Before purchasing this resource, please understand the following: You will need: - To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. - A FREE BOOM Learning account, which allows you to generate student progress reports for five students and to make up to give decks. How to access your deck: - Following your purchase, simply download your PDF with easy instructions! When you click the link in the PDF, your deck will automatically be added to your BOOM library. (If you don't have an account, you'll be prompted to set up a free one). Other helpful info: - You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (play provides instant feedback for self-grading Boom Cards). Fast Play is always a free way for students to engage with Boom Cards decks. - For additional assignment options you'll need a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account.Readhere for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.- What does this purchase allow? One license allows you (one educator) to use the games with all of your students. You must purchase an additional license to share it with a co-worker. This PDF must NOT be shared in any way. Click on the star next to my photo to receive the latest updates! If you love this resource, please let me know by leaving a 5-star rating and feedback, which allows you to earn credits for future purchases! I read and appreciate each and every comment you write.
Documenting Play Therapy: Ken Schwartzenberger created this guide that provides examples of how to document use of play therapy to meet LA Department of Mental Health/Medi-Cal standards. Click...
HI THERE, I’M MONICA! My friend and fellow Apple Distinguished Educator Lisa Johnson used to share her favorite education strategies on TechChef4U’s website. Lisa is no longer blogging about education, so that’s why you’re here… with Lisa’s blessing, you’ve landed at my site to explore EdTech strategies, lesson ideas, and more favorites for teaching and […]
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Here is a simple farm animal guessing game I made for language delayed kiddos. It is great for working on categories, attributes, inferen...
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Abstract thinking, as well as understanding multiple meanings, are two higher-order cognitive skills that develop in the middle school years. It's when instruction moves from concrete to more abstract types of learning. Read on to dig deeper. How Can We Help Strengthen Higher-Order Language Skills? This 58-page workbook, which is available as a PDF digital download, offers an innovative and multisensory approach to learning higher-level language and reasoning. Students work with abstract and concrete nouns as well as with words that have multiple meanings. Students will also learn to critically analyze similes and metaphors in creative ways. Students that use this publication will also encounter and interpret idioms and sayings. These activities help students to develop higher-order language skills as well as mental flexibility through critical thinking and visualization skills. What is Abstract Thinking? Abstracting thinking or abstract reasoning is the ability to think about objects, principles, and ideas that are not concrete or physically present. It includes concepts like justice, new theories, novel solutions, or making inferences to name a few. What are Multiple Meanings? Some words have more than one meaning and this can lead to multiple interpretations of text or discourse. Jokes often use this device, and critically analyzing this type of humor can be a fun way to help students that struggle with this higher-order language skill. What is Higher-Order Thinking? Higher-order thinking involves the learning of complex skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving. It goes beyond observing facts and rote memorization, and it invites evaluation, creativity, and innovation. What Other Products Strengthen Higher-Order Language? At Good Sensory Learning we have a number of digital downs that strengthen higher-order thinking and abstract thinking skills. Here are a few favorites: Making Inferences the Fun and Easy Way Following Directions the Fun and Easy Way Bundle Hey, What's the Big Idea Game You can also view all our critical thinking products by checking out our Critical Thinking Collection Page.
During the winter months families are often stuck inside.Finding things to do that keep the interest of children can be difficult. Now that many people have iPads and other digital...
Analogies are such an important skill for students to master. With these activities your students will have fun as they learn about analogies.
A1 or A2 writing practice. A way of reinforcing our students' creativity. Once the task is done, the comics can be shown or read aloud. It can be written as an individual task or in collaborative groups. The students will realise that everyone has something different to say that fits in the same reality :)Another similar practice: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/material-type/role-plays-and-improvisation-activities/write-comic-13/128257or:https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/material-type/role-plays-and-improvisation-activities/write-comic-33/128317OR:https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary/actions/write-comic-44/131932 - ESL worksheets
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So many kiddos have WH question goals… in some form or another. The ability to answer WH questions is important, in all settings: school, home, in conversation, etc… I knew this, but I always wondered how to teach WH questions without feeling like I was testing the kiddo. I didn’t want to repeat the question […]
I think there are so many ways this could be used in therapy and I am excited to try it out! The basic principle is the kids can shake the bottle around to find the different words hidden in the rice. Once they find a word, they can:
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Describing, categories, object functions, and other attributes in speech therapy: The research, therapy ideas, goal suggestions and more!
Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.
Many of you commented that you are looking for storytelling activities/materials. One of my best purchases in the past year has been ...
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Happy Sunday! Here is my newest activity targeting simple analogies for preschoolers and early elementary students. This 12-...
We've all been there. You joyfully announce, "We've got an awesome activity to do today!" Then you look down and realize that the awesome activity should have been printed last week; and cut out three days ago; and laminated yesterday. So you end up doing an alternate activity and wish there was an easier
Songs, Dances, Chants, and Orff Instrumental Accompaniments for Elementary and Middle School Students. By Konnie Saliba. Book. You won't want to miss this delightful new song collection by celebrated Alfred Music author Konnie Saliba! Throughout the reproducible book, students are given opportunities to explore their creativity with rhythmic and
Welcome to Day 2 of Speech-A-Palooza! I hope you enjoyed Whitney's post yesterday! Today's post is from Jen Alcorn, author of Crazy Speech World. Themes are something new I am trying this year, too. I had always done the traditional holiday themes, but I am now trying out a new theme every other week. This post will be helpful for any of you that use themes in your therapy sessions... or are thinking about doing it! One of the most popular questions I get is about using themes for therapy. Mostly, how do I plan my themes? I'm sure other people have different methods, but here is how I do it... My therapy themes are simple and straightforward. Over the summer, I sit down with my calendar and map it out. It takes an hour or two, but it ends up making therapy planning incredibly easier. Why? Because you are able to narrow your focus. When I tackled this project the first time, it was a little overwhelming. But the more you do it, the more comfortable you become with the process and it ended up being pretty easy for me this past summer. Something you may find helpful is from Perkilou Products...it is a four week calendar for every month of the year. It gave me ideas when I was first starting to create my own. My own version is a little different. I center my planning around holidays and seasons, some of which I use for two weeks. You can download my version HERE. I also created a blank version, which you can grab HERE. After this part comes the fun stuff...finding materials! Blogs. I think these are the best places to get inspired and find activities. Pinterest. I have seen tons of Pin Boards dedicated to specific holidays, seasons, or themes. You can even search by theme using the search box. Books. Look through your own or go visit the library! You can find a book on any topic, try to find various levels, as well as fiction and non-fiction. Go through your STUFF! Pull your files out and go through your cabinets. I bet you have tons of your own materials that you can use :) I have started organizing my themes by binders to keep up with it all. I bought tons of page protectors to keep all my original worksheets and materials in, and all of my activities for that theme go in the binder. I also make a list of all the manipulatives that I have that go with the theme...like I have jack-o-latern baskets I can use for Halloween or the Popcorn containers with the carnival theme. I just don't want to forget what I have! We always have so much STUFF! I still use my trusty bag of favorites...CandyLand, Apples to Apples, Chipper Chat etc. to fill in the gaps. Not everything I do is related to the theme, but I love having the organization of using themes in therapy. I really believe that it has positively impacted my therapy and I would encourage any SLP to do it!
How to understand that without thoughts we can not feel and vice versa. To feel good, thoughts become more important then you may know.
