Must have apps for the SLP in middle school Let’s face it, you often feel as if all speech therapy apps were created for the elementary school children. As an SLP service older student you feel left out of the technology revolution that came sweeping our profession. Over the years, Smarty Ears hear from hundreds of speech-language-pathologists just like you. We have created some of the best speech therapy apps to overcome the speech sound disorders that not only have the feel as if they were meant to be used by older students, but they actually were created specifically for areas where middle schoolers are struggling with.We compiled a list of our favorite apps for speech impaired to be used by your middle schoolers. Check them out: 1. PrepPositions Prep Positions by [...]
Whether you're working with little ones or older students, incorporating seasonal themes into your sessions can add an extra layer of excitement and relevance. In this blog post, let’s look at a range of interactive and creative teletherapy activities specifically for the winter season.
Welcome to our class! I’ve changed some parts of my classroom this year and I have to say that I’m loving how everything turned out. Please note that this is my 12th year of teaching and I did not create this environment overnight. It’s taken years to accumulate and/or create everything that is in this ... Read More about Learning in Wonderland Classroom Tour
I work for a company that has more than 5 facilities that I serve in my immediate area. At this point, I have become familiar with each of their therapy rooms, activity rooms, etc. If I have a question, I am familiar enough to a handful of staff members, to locate something I need. This ... Read More about My PRN toolkit…for the SNF and Home Health
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When I speak to graduate students about to enter the schools each summer I always try to teach them my favorite way to do therapy. For me the best way to do therapy is to find
Welcome to our class! I’ve changed some parts of my classroom this year and I have to say that I’m loving how everything turned out. Please note that this is my 12th year of teaching and I did not create this environment overnight. It’s taken years to accumulate and/or create everything that is in this ... Read More about Learning in Wonderland Classroom Tour
Exercises to help a stuttering child | These stuttering therapy techniques and activities will help a child become more fluent.
Hello! Thank you for looking at Wintery Weather Auditory Processing Wonderland. I created these activities for my students who have goals for comprehending linguistic information containing conditions if… then, multi-step directions containing temporal and spatial concepts, and processing information to determine what not to say / do. The lessons were created to help improve the short-term memory, auditory processing, receptive language with regard to understanding specific linguistic concepts and listening comprehension for my students This packet contains five processing lessons and three parent review notes. Lessons are as follows: 1. Conditional if… then processing questions – 7 pages – 28 scenarios around a winter theme. I prefer to either cut them out, laminate one set and either I or the kids read. 2. Directives containing temporal concepts before and after. (I am finding that my students are experiencing difficulty with these directives, but with practice in the group, the have been more successful. – 5 pages with 18 scenarios. – For the first two activities, I included a parent note regarding the activity. I usually do both of these activities in one period. 3. Following multi step directives containing linguistic concepts of inclusion, exclusion, quantity and sequential concepts. 2 pages, 11 directives. For this activity, I print out 5-6 sets for a small group. I put them in plastic pages protectors and have my students use dry erase markers, as to not waste printer ink and laminate. For this activity, I included a parent note. 4. Going to the Arctic – For this activity, I have the students follow directions (included) to place Arctic animals (included) onto an Arctic scene. For this, students will learn to follow directions containing spatial concepts. I drew the picture for this as to not take up all of your ink!!! 4 pages, an animal page, directions page, Arctic freeze page and a parent note. 5. The final is a bit of a bonus. I wanted to help my students to understand exclusion and what not to say in certain situations. They are given a situation, I usually present auditorily and they have to come up with a correct verbal response! 3 pages – 15 scenarios. I find that this activity further helps my students to develop their pragmatic language skills. If you have any questions at all, please contact me at [email protected]
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The end of the year is very near! We only have four days left and one of those days is a half day. There is a linky party going on right now over at the Clutter-Free Classroom all about the end of the year. You can choose to answer any of these questions: Share ... Read More about End of the Year
I don't know about you, but I seem to have a LOT of /r/ students this year! As it came time for parent teacher conferences and third quarter progress reports, I knew I needed to
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Pediatric feeding therapy can be complex, but it can also be a lot of fun! Check out these effective feeding therapy tips, techniques, and activities.
Every speech-language pathologist who travels the halls of a long-term care facility has faced this problem. You receive a referral to check for dysphagia in a resident who is losing weight.
Using mini objects to create sound boxes. Use these instead of flashcards to make Childhood Apraxia of Speech therapy interactive. Who to ask, what to do with them, and how to store them!
Marble runs are versatile, super fun, and can be used to target multiple communication goals. When I was working in a private pediatric setting in Texas, we had a giant marble maze in one corner of th
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
I don't know about you, but my gut reaction when I have another child to evaluate with a possible eligibility of social language disorder, is "Oh no! There are no good tests for me!" I know that there are standardized tests that look at "idioms" or "pragmatic judgement" within the context of other language tasks.
Speech-Language Pathologists need to examine the medical record just as carefully as the patient. Which came first, the illness or the dysphagia?
Brain breaks with an Easter twist are a great way to handle spring fever.
Here a new speech and language therapy activity you probably haven't thought of: using receipts in your speech activities! Receipts are a super simple, low prep way to target many different speech and language skills. Read this blog post to get lots of ideas for using receipts in speech therapy in engaging ways!
Mini objects make a great speech therapy resource. Eight different ways to use Mini Objects for Speech and Language Therapy.
Looking for CEUs, resources, apps, or books about dysphagia? Look no further! Below are my favorite dysphagia resources. –FREE Online Resources– Dysarthria Profile (Revised) – The scoring form, 5 pages. –CEUs-– Northern Speech Services CEUs – Click on the ‘Dysphagia’ tab. Free LinguiSystems CEUs – Many are dysphagia related. No search feature. SpeechPathology.com Dysphagia CEUs […]
Do you love quick motivational activities in speech therapy that will have your kids begging to participate? You need to try dot markers! How do you use them
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Smash mats have been so motivating for my students. I use them to target all kinds of speech and language goals. The kids get excited and I get to elicit lots of practice… it's a win, win! I recently have been working with a little girl on expanding her utterance length and was having trouble motivating her. So seeing how excited she got about using smash mats to target other goals, I created these for her! Here is how we use them… I printed and laminated the sentence strips. I have strips for 2, 3, 4, and 5 word utterances. Depending on what we are working on, I will write a target phrase in the empty circles that I want her to imitate. As she says each word, she is able to smash the ball of playdoh that is under the word. A few weeks ago, we were reading There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose to get ready for Valentine's Day. As we read the story, we would periodically pause the story and create a phrase about what was happening ("she swallowed some glitter!") We got lots of phrase practice in this way. These strips are also ideal to send home with the kids for practice with their families. If they don't happen to have playdoh, they can put a sticker on the smash mat or eat a small treat after they say each word… whatever motivates them! You can download these mats for free in my TpT store, here!
Have a child with a feeding disorder? Here are 12 tips using the SOS method that can help get your child trying and eating more foods.
For at least the next two weeks therapy will be all about snow! We had a short week last week so some of my groups will be working on the winter theme this week too and then they'll move on to snow. It doesn't snow much in North Carolina but we always get excited if there's a chance! This year I'll be using digital activities but I've included some face-to-face materials that I've used in year's past too. I always like to start with books and have no shortage of snow-themed books! I will read some under the document camera but I've also pulled digital books from Epic! to screen share too. I have a fun paper bag game that we made last year, Snowball Fight! Just like my other paper bag games, the kids each make a bag with a set of picture cards that target their goals. We play during therapy and then send it home for home practice afterwards. Sometimes I print the cards or cover on color copy paper and other times we just use white. I have two sets of "snow" mini-erasers. snowflakes or snowmen. They go great with my Mini-Speech Games or Winter Wonderland game. The snowmen are technically pencil toppers but they make great game pieces. With teletherapy this year we have played this bottle cap game a few times. I change the colors depending on the theme and for this month I added numbers to make it easier for the kids to tell me which bottle cap they want to look under. I've hidden a few snowflake mini-erasers under some of the bottle caps. I pull up some target pictures or ask questions to the students, once they complete the task they tell me which bottle cap to flip over. They get one point for each snowflake they find and the student with the most points when time is up wins! Usually, in January we make one of my favorite crafts, Where Did the Snow Go? The kids use cotton balls to add snow to the snowglobe. While they cover up the pictures they practice using the word or answering the question. They are always fun to hang in the hallway after we make them. Tip: liquid glue works better than glue sticks if make these with your students. This year I will be using many boom cards this month. First, we'll read Snow Day! After we read we'll answer the questions and then sequence the story. For my articulation groups, we'll play Articulation Snowball Fight! My older elementary groups (1st-3rd) will read All About...Snowmen! and complete the activities. I am most excited about Articulation Snowball Fight! Choose a phoneme and it pulls up a page with 15 snowballs (pictures included with target words). Seven out of fifteen of the snowballs are "hit" snowballs. We will keep playing until time is up and the player who gets "hit" the least wins! All About...Snowmen! is a language-themed deck, it has a short digital story, and a variety of language activities that we'll complete all about snowmen! One more boom deck, Trapped in a Snowglobe! This is an articulation-focused boom deck. The students must trap the pictures in the snowglobe that contain their targeted sound only. There are pictures that do not have their sound which is always great for auditory discrimination and awareness of their sound. I shared this collection of winter-y games last week and we'll still try to play a few using the document camera during the snow theme too. I think Spot it and Yeti in my Spaghetti are the easiest to share under the document camera. And that wraps up all things about snow! I may mix in a few books and things with arctic animals and yetis too but no plans for a big theme this year.
I am so excited about the amazing feedback and comments I have gotten so far on this topic. It really warms my heart that so many of you are able to use some of my tips and tricks to have a really successful year. Just in case you missed PART 1, you can head over and read it now by clicking HERE. Now…are you ready f
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I am a very busy SLP. I see most of my kids in medium sized groups and have little time for extra data collection. What I've learned in the last few years, however, is that a periodic language sample (even if it's just once a year!) is
There are SLPs out in the world that are the queens and kings of using everyday items in speech therapy. DIY speech therapy materials are the best because they are kind on the wallet and helpful for a lot of goals. Bottle caps are an amazing household item that SLPs can use in speech therapy! (amazon […]
