camping speech therapy activities to help SLPs plan lessons. Craft ideas for kids, book recommendations, lesson plan ideas & materials to use in speech.
Are you a speech pathologist that works with 4th and 5th graders? Do you need tips on how to work best with your upper elementary students? This is the ultimate SLP Guide for working with 4th and 5th grade in a school setting! In this blog post, I'm going to share some of my favorite
We’ve all been there. After months of drill and practice and tongue depressors, he’s finally got his /r/ sound! He can say it in words, in phrases, even sentences and short conversations. You’re thinking he’s definitely on his way out the door with a “graduation” certificate soon. Then you see him in the hallway. He grins […]
It's time to get outside! Spring is here and I am sharing a few ideas to help you bring speech therapy outside!
Working on main idea isn't just a reading skill, but a very important language skill as well. If you're overwhelmed or unsure about where to start when teaching main idea in your speech classroom, this blog post was written for you! I've also included my free resources to help you save time and teach main idea better!
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!
Not sure if you making speech therapy folders will work for your caseload? Listen to hear the pros and cons of using speech therapy folders
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
Articulation cards are a staple in Speech Therapy rooms. Articulation Flash Cards can be used in so many ways with preschoolers and elementary students... buuuttt sometimes they can get boring and repetitive. Check out these articulation card ideas to bring some new and exciting speech therapy activities into your therapy room! You can use these ideas in group therapy or in one-on-one sessions or even send them home for easy articulation homework ideas! • WHAT’S THERE?: Place 5 cards around the
Use this outline to teach students in upper elementary, middle
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. Recently I brought you my review of You Are A Social Detective: Explaining Social ThinkingⓇ to Kids by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke… and now I am FINALLY getting around to sharing all of the cool activities we did to go with that book! Woot! If […]
Articulation Therapy for S Your student has an interdental lisp– or maybe a lateral lisp– and you’re feeling stuck. This feeling is something I came across often in my speech therapy sessions. One day, I decided it was time to do something about it. I wanted to correct those lisps. I’m somewhat of a perfectionist...
12 interactive and fun games to teach self-control and build self-regulation skills for kids and teens. Strong skills for self-control are the foundation for success in and outside of the classroom.
Needing some first week of speech therapy ideas for your elementary caseload? This blog post has LOTS of ideas.
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Speech therapy for older children with articulation disorders can be challenging. Here are some tips for assessment, treatment, and carryover.
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!
Kid-friendly speech topics for students learning to how to give
Welcome and thanks to my guest blogger, Betsy from Love Speech Therapy! How using just ONE item in mixed therapy groups can actually address multiple student goals! Planning for mixed groups in therapy can be tough! Working on semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and articulation all in one session can be difficult. What do you do? Prep […]
Plan your next farm themed speech therapy lesson using toys and materials kids will love! Use farm vocabulary to teach basic concepts, verbs and more!
Speech therapy sentences may be easy to find online, but this selection is geared specifically for practicing speech therapy.
I have put together a HUGE list of free speech therapy materials that you can download and use today. If you’re a busy SLP on a tight budget - you’ll want to snag all of these. I’ve sorted them by category, for easy reference! There are free speech therapy resources for Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Speech Therapy Assessment, Play Based Resources for Distance Learning, Books for Speech Therapy, Boom Cards and more! Free Professional Development for Speech Therapists: • Play Based Speech therapy
Circle or whole-group activities can be challenging for SLPs. Here are five easy to prep, highly engaging activities for preschoolers.
How good would it feel to have your entire year planned out? Here are some simple tips for how to plan your entire SLP year in one sitting!
Last week, I posted about how I “tidied” my speech room using category strategies. Check it out HERE . Once you’ve whittled down your materials to your favorite or most effective therapy tools, it’s time to organize your materials so you can find them quickly. I’ve tried a ton of organizational materials over the years, …
Having materials to use with group therapy can be tricky at times. If you are able to pair articulation and phonology students together, it can be hard to plan group lessons when all the students are working on a different sound, need a slightly different approach to therapy or are varying levels of skill mastery. […]
Idioms are a type of figurative language that SLPs work on because they are essential to communicate effectively and for academic success.
I guarantee if you left me alone to wander through a school, I'd end up rummaging through cabinets to see what resources teachers and therapists had stashed away in their closets. Since we live in
Through my experience working in a skilled nursing and long term care facility, I have found that patients can greatly benefit from therapy exercises and strategies to improve their breathing coordination as well as expiratory duration and strength. This in turn will positively affect their breath support, swallowing and communication skills. Patients who have are ... Read More about When Communication, Cognition And Swallowing Are Affected By Decreased Breath Support
For our learners who need to work on foundational learning skills, such as simple matching, I have always love creating hands on task boxes put-in tasks and color sorting tasks. My classroom closet always looked like it could be featured on an episode of hoarders. I kept every shoe box, coffee container, baby jar, and
Because I couldn't find anything I loved, I decided to create this FREEBIE resource of books by speech sound. I included 22 different sounds!
Parts of speech worksheets can sometimes be dull and boring, but that doesn't have to be the case! Check out this roundup of fun parts of speech activities.
You can use file folder ideas to make speech therapy activities for your students. Turn worksheets and visuals into interactive materials!
A range of free printable SEN teaching resources used with Autistic pupils aged 4-18, literacy, numeracy, topic and themed resources.
Fluency (or stuttering) therapy is an area that many SLPs feel under-prepared to serve. While you may have had an excellent professor on the subject in grad school, it tends to be a lower incidence
Exercises to help a stuttering child | These stuttering therapy techniques and activities will help a child become more fluent.
These FREE speech sound cue cards have a picture of a mouth producing the sound and a picture to remind your students of the sound.
1. This first "do" of treating final consonant deletion is a big one... TARGET SELECTION. Here are a few things to consider when selecting targets specifically for targeting final consonant deletion: - High frequency words. Using high frequency words in therapy has been shown to reduce cognitive demands and improve int
