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
Have you ever thought about using wordless videos in your speech therapy lessons? It increases engagement! Start with these videos...
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!
Self-control is an important life skill. Here's 4 ways to teach self-control to children using modeling, stories, practice, and consequences.
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
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.
One of the first projects my 4th/5th grade students created this year were personal “About Me” folded squash books. The kids were introduced to a simple foldable bookmaking technique and then they personalized them with drawings and collages about themselves. Each section of the book had a prompt to get them started. I showed them a video demonstration of how to assemble the book and I provided square templates printed on card stock. Both the video, templates and instructions are … Read more... →
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!
These fall speech therapy lesson plans include book recommendations, craft/activity suggestions, and activities to target goals!
Learn how to practice rhythms with this budget-friendly and fun rhythm game in your elementary music classroom.
Restorative practices in elementary schools are incredible, but they look a little different than in the secondary levels.
As the ONLY special education teacher in my building, I ALWAYS wanted to get a peek inside other classrooms. Get a peek inside 10 classroom tours!
10 Creative Art Activities for Kids, including free printable drawing prompts and art collages, plus many more creative art ideas!
Common handwriting problems like spacing, letter formation, sizing, illegible writing impact learning for students. Here's how to help.
PERSPECTIVE TAKING SOCIAL SKILLS ACTIVITY PACK Contains: 18x 'Walk in Their Shoes' Scenarios 6x 'Perspective Detective' Mini Worksheets 6x 'Complete the Thought' Mini Worksheets Includes colour AND black and white versions of all activities Develop empathy, perspective taking, social thinking and general social skills with this series of activities. Appropriate for social emotional learning, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and counselling subjects.
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!
Fun and easy BRAIN BREAKS for elementary students that will help classroom management
As an OT, you'll likely see patients with decreased fine motor skills. Here are the best functional fine motor coordination activities
Speech therapy resources, including printable speech therapy activities, social stories for speech therapy, & more!
Grab a free speech therapy schedule template and learn some tips for how to make your speech schedule with less stress this school year!
We cover the importance of meaningful and functional occupational therapy interventions to use with your patients affected by dementia.
Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.
I love pragmatic language evals. I even like to write the reports. Don't judge me, because I want to share my pragmatic language evaluation tools with you.
The obstinate, ornery R. Have you exhausted every R articulation therapy trick that you know? These articulation therapy for R tips and tricks are just what you need!
Through the years I have had a few students with selective mutism. When I met my first student with S.M., I thought she was just very shy. For this post, I will call her Sally but that is not her real name. But, after a couple of weeks of school, it was clear that there was more going on that a case of shyness. That is when I asked for a meeting with Sally's parents to get their insight into what was happening. Her parents told me that she would only talk to the people in her immediate family and one neighbor. She wouldn't even speak to her grandparents or cousins. After observations and meetings with her pediatrician, counselor, speech pathologist, she was officially diagnosed as having selective mutism. Luckily, Sally's parents were very open to ideas and happy to try anything that we suggested. Sally's mom would send me something to school on a weekly basis. Sometimes it was a bag of cookies that Sally and her mom had baked together. Other times Sally's mom let her pick out a packet of stickers to donate to our class. Sally's job was to hand the item(s) to me. We set the following goals: 1st: Hand the item to the teacher without mom standing beside her. I said thank you but did not ask her any questions about the item. 2nd: Hand the item to the teacher while looking at the teacher. I said thank you but did not ask her any questions about the item. 3rd: Hand the item to the teacher and say you're welcome. I said thank you but did not ask her any questions about the item. 4th: Hand the item to the teacher while looking at the teacher and say you're welcome. I said thank you but did not ask her any questions about the item. 5th: Hand the item to the teacher while looking at the teacher and say you're welcome. Answer teacher's question with one word. I said thank you and then asked her a question that could be answered with one word - usually a yes/no question. 6th: Hand the item to the teacher while looking at the teacher and say you're welcome. Answer teacher's question with 2 or more words. I said thank you and then asked her a question that required a few more details. Once again, Sally's parents provided extra support to help her build relationships with her classmates. Sally and her mom loved to bake. Usually students only brought treats for their birthday. I gave her mom permission to send in treats more frequently. When Sally passed out the treats to her classmates, she was concentrating on the actual process of passing out, and less about her anxiety about communicating with her classmates. We set goals for this too. 1st: Pass out treats without teacher support. 2nd: Pass out treat and make eye contact with classmates. 3rd: Pass out treat, make eye contact with classmates, and smile when student says thank you. 4th: Pass out treat, make eye contact with classmates, and say you're welcome when classmate says thank you. Sally received weekly support from our school counselor. Our counselor let Sally choose a buddy come with her. She and the buddy played games in the counselor's office. In the beginning, Sally would only smile and shake her head for yes or no. But, over time she slowly began to whisper to the counselor and her buddy. I think it helped that there was only one buddy and they were in a quiet office so she felt more comfortable. By the end of the year, she was able to invite 3 buddies to go with her. As you can imagine she became very popular because she got to pick her buddy(ies). Word quickly spread that if Sally chose you, you got to go play games. Students wanted to sit by her at lunch and invited her to play games with them at recess. There are different reasons why a student may have S.M. Sometimes it is an anxiety issue. Click HERE to read more about this topic. Interested in reading more posts? Click on the pictures below.
Looking for functional, occupation-based standing tolerance activities for your OT practice? Here are 10 of our top favorites.
Looking for an introductory First Grade Self Control Activity? Your students will love this fun story and craft for practice!
Circle or whole-group activities can be challenging for SLPs. Here are five easy to prep, highly engaging activities for preschoolers.
Paper Bag Dramatics: A fun activity for Team Building and Developing Community. Here's an idea that can be used just about anywhere at any time. It encourages groups to solve problems, think creatively, and work as a team.
Do you have a favorite rhythm game or activity to use in your music lessons? Rhythm is something that always needs review, so you can never have too many
Although this is Part 3, it actually continues directly from Part 1, which is the preparation part. If you have never created your own Boom Cards, you'll
Classroom team-building games are a must at the start of a new school year! Here are 16 of my favorite icebreakers and classroom team-building activities!
Check out this post for creative and exciting ways to add scarves into your music activities. Also, find some specific scarf music examples.
Art therapy activities for teens can help them work through hard feelings and express themselves. We have 25 fun activities to try today.
