Apps are great for quick, on-the-fly therapy activities and save time and money on printing - but free speech therapy apps are even better!
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
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Engage your teletherapy students with these interactive activities. From Boom Cards to PDF annotation, keep your virtual speech therapy sessions focused and fun!
Apps are great for quick, on-the-fly therapy activities and save time and money on printing - but free speech therapy apps are even better!
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Speech therapy for older children with articulation disorders can be challenging. Here are some tips for assessment, treatment, and carryover.
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Get set for back to school in teletherapy with these digital activities! Learn about fun and interactive games and activities to get students warmed up in virtual speech therapy sessions.
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Do you need a quick hook to grab the attention of your students? Are you introducing a new theme, topic, or skill? Mystery Bags are a fun way to elicit student engagement. Mystery Bags are a common use in elementary classrooms as a form of show-and-tell. This activity is so versatile and can be used to address many different goals. So whether your students are in elementary or middle school, this activity will address their goals. In this post, I want to share with you some new ways to use Mystery Bags in your speech therapy lessons. Although I am not a classroom teacher, I like to use a strong teaching strategy with my students called a hook. A hook is an attention grabber. Great teachers grasp their students' attention immediately with a hook. This could be a question, illustration, animation, or object. As a speech-language pathologist I use a hook to help my students focus. Mystery Bags are a great way to introduce a topic or a theme. It gives you the opportunity to connect to background knowledge and access their schema. Items such as a toy bus in August, an apple in September, a small pumpkin in October or November and an an ornament in December are a few options for introducing monthly themes. If your early elementary classes use "letter of the week," put items in the bag that start with target letters (A-apple, B-ball, C-toy car, D-stuffed dog, E-plastic Easter egg). Give student semantic or phonemic clues and have them guess the object inside. Examples of semantic cues would include: "It's a round red fruit, grows on a tree and has seeds. You can use it to make a pie." If giving phonemic cues you might say it starts with /a/ and ends with /l/, or have students blend phonemes /a-p-l/ to figure out the mystery item. Mystery Bags are an interactive social activity. You can target skills such as asking and answering questions, turn-taking, sustained attention, eye contact and perspective and inference skills. By having students ask and answer wh-questions, and give clues for object function and location, you are creating opportunities for rich language discussions. How one student might use an object, such as a stapler, could be different from how another student might use the same object. You can have students take turns holding the bag while others in the group ask questions, or you could hold the mystery bag while students ask you the questions. I have used Mystery Bags with students as young as 3 years old and as old as middle school. If your students need verbal or visual support for asking and answering questions, you can use sentence stems, question sticks, and picture clues to facilitate questioning. In order to get started, I've included a visual map for describing objects using attributes such as: color, shape, size, texture, relative weight, etc. You can also add visuals for questioning such as index cards or sticky notes with the question words "who?" "what?" "when?" "where?" and "how?" Students can ask questions such as, "Who uses this item? Where can you find it? What color is it? What is it used for?" and "How does it work?" In this post, I have touched on a few different ways to use Mystery Bags in your speech therapy sessions. This activity is also perfect for mixed groups because you can target articulation, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, expressive language, receptive language, vocabulary, syntax, and pragmatic language all in the same lesson. If you use Mystery Bags in your speech therapy, I'd love to hear from you. Comment below and share your amazing ideas! Link to the free visual map shown above HERE and download. Share this post with someone that you think could benefit from these ideas and freebie. Don't forget to sign up for my newsletter below and follow my blog on Bloglovin' or enter your email in the sidebar to receive my blog directly to your inbox. Don't miss a single post. Lisa, SLP Subscribe to our mailing list and receive my TIER 2 Vocabulary FREEBIE * indicates required Email Address * First Name *
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How do you manage tricky behaviors in your speech therapy sessions? Here’s my top tips: I like to freely provide lots of sensory supports in my room, like wiggle seats, putty, squishy things, fidgets, etc… Most of my students have specific plans for what to do if they need a break or need help. Like I shared […]
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I don't know about you, but I always seem to have a hard time finding appropriate materials for my middle school students. Either the tasks are too difficult or abstract to start with, or the
Explore 25+ no-print and FREE speech therapy activities! From targeting articulation to language and beyond, download each one to engage your students with technology today.
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Many students struggle with planning, time management, and organization – also known as executive functioning. Although teachers want their students to be able to keep their materials organized, plan and coordinate their attention across subjects, and turn assignments in on time, this is a cognitive process is one of the last skills to fully develop. ... Read More about Free Help for Students with Executive Functioning Challenges
Sharing websites with students in Spanish speech therapy sessions is a great way to target speech therapy goals. Here are 20 websites for you
Using wordless shorts in language therapy gives you so many options and your clients will LOVE it! Links to the best wordless videos!
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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 […]
Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
Unlock Reading Magic: Dive into animated shorts and task cards for captivating main idea and details lessons! 📚🎬
Are you racking your brain for toys that will work with your moderate-severe students. I have 10 toys that will promote functional communication!
The Unfair Game is a totally unfair twist on Jeopardy that your students will LOVE to hate! Learn how to play and find sample game boards in this post.
Help! My students don’t remember the parts of speech! Yep, we’ve all been there. You start a grammar lesson, only to realize that your students don’t remember the basics. It’s not that they don’t understand grammar and syntax; they just forgot the technical terms (nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections) that they need […]
Do you know that euphoric feeling when you finish a session and say, "Wow! That was terrific!" You feel that you thoroughly addressed your student's
There are several programs and practices out there to address fluency. Most involve some types of strategies or fluency enhancing behaviors (FEBs) to teach those who stutter how to manage their fluency. I use these strategies daily with my fluency kiddos and have found them to work very well. I try to spend time practicing […]
I was introducing SuperFlex (by Social Thinking) to some new students. One student was having a really tough time understanding how his brain could be 'flexible'. I explained how his not his brain, but his thinking, needed to be flexible. Again, I was met with, "How can my thinking be flexible?" I could see I needed to think outside of the box for this one. After some trial runs, I found a way to, hopefully, demonstrate the concept of 'flexible thinking'. With the help of tissue paper, plastic wrap, a sharpie, and some classroom objects I managed to create a
Have you ever thought about using wordless videos in your speech therapy lessons? It increases engagement! Start with these videos...
