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Teach your students this simple 5 step process to solving a social problem. Give your students the skills they need to independently ...
Teletherapy social skills activities for kids and teens! Discover favorite websites, apps, and activities that can be used digitally.
Working PRN at the SNF on weekends, it can get a little lonely. I much prefer the weekdays of Christmas break and Summer break that I get to work with the entire team! Since I have known them all so long…and they know my ways…I like to leave little silly notes for them like the ... Read More about Play Ball Like an SLP
Social communication skills are some of the most valuable skills we can teach our students.
Community outings can help teach students in a natural environment. Grab your free printables for high school students today and start practicing...
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.
Check out this blog post for tips and ideas for using a "what's in the bag?" activity to support early language skills in your EI sessions.
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This interactive game is a must-have speech therapy activity, perfect for homeschool and special education settings, helping children with language learning and pragmatic skills. Designed to support executive function, it’s an engaging social skills card game that is ideal for kids with language disorders, autism and those in group home environments. Social language skills can be particularly challenging for students, especially those with language disorders. This interactive directions card game is designed to help students navigate social situations with confidence and clarity, ensuring they know how to be polite, say the right thing, and use appropriate words for different contexts. 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: - 100 Question Cards: Carefully designed to help students learn how to respond appropriately in various social situations. - Open-Ended Game Board: Allows flexibility in playtime—tailor the game’s duration to your needs. - Allowance Mechanic: Players earn or pay back “allowance” money as they progress, adding an element of fun and learning. 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒔: - Versatile Usage: Ideal for speech therapy, special education, homeschool, or group settings. - Target Multiple Skills: Helps students work on social language, pragmatic skills, and understanding contextual cues. - Customizable Play: Sort the cards by question type for focused practice, or keep them mixed to challenge the entire group. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝑼𝒔𝒆 - In Individual Therapy: Use the cards to target specific social language goals for each student. - In Group Sessions: Engage mixed groups with diverse language needs by using all card types, promoting collaborative learning. - In the Classroom or Home: This game is perfect for reinforcing language skills in a fun, interactive way. This game is an engaging resource for helping students with language disorders master social language skills, making it a valuable addition to any speech therapy toolkit. Get yours now.
Community outings can help teach students in a natural environment. Grab your free printables for high school students today and start practicing...
Blank comics are engaging for both younger and older students and allows for targeting many skills. Access a board of free blank comics!
In this blog post you will learn how to teach categories for your students with language impairments without overwhelm!
What is executive functioning and how does it apply to speech therapy? Check out this great resource to help guide your students!
Functional life skills activities round-up! Discover resources to download and use in speech therapy and the classroom.
Speech therapy freebies for SLPs and clipart freebies for educators. Find pediatric tools for language, articulation, social skills, and more!
This post contains affiliate links. The idea of teaching kids the social skill of personal space through space protectors and space invaders is nothing new – but I’m going to share the worksheet I used and how I did this with my group in case anyone is looking for additional inspiration. I co-ran a social […]
How to help a speech delayed child | From speech therapy activities to PECS communication boards, we’ve rounded up 32 tips & activities to get you started!
Teletherapy social skills activities for kids and teens! Discover favorite websites, apps, and activities that can be used digitally.
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.
This blog post goes into detail about teaching fluency strategies in speech therapy to help students overcome their stuttering barriers.
Teach your students this simple 5 step process to solving a social problem. Give your students the skills they need to independently ...
Hi speechies! Have you signed up for my weekly email?! I just started it this weekend and I'm really excited to deliver one email a week to your inbox with ALL things TSS :) Join the tribe by clicking here - I promise not to spam you! ANYWAAAAY. Today I want to share a SOCIAL THINKING activity with y'all! In my high school groups we are working on learning when to say things vs. just think them - aka we are getting in tune with our SOCIAL FILTERS! I came up with 20 social thoughts to read to the students. They are going to listen to the thought then hold up the "THINK IT" speech bubble if they think it's a thought they should keep in their brain or the "SAY IT" mouth if it's a thought they think they should say out loud. I'm really excited to implement this activity this week! I try to come up with REAL LIFE social scenarios so that they carryover the skills into their everyday lives. You can grab this activity in my TpT store! What are some ways that you teach using social filters?
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These memory and attention tasks help build connections in your clients brains and can strengthen memory and attention skills.
Use busy picture scenes in speech therapy! Download a free language scene and use a free Pinterest board with over 100 scenes.
33 Evidence-based (and FUN!) SOCIAL SKILLS ACTIVITIES for KIDS + 🎁 FREE PRINTABLE activity. Explore: starting conversations, respecting personal space, expressing emotions
How to help a speech delayed child | From speech therapy activities to PECS communication boards, we’ve rounded up 32 tips & activities to get you started!
Hi! So, if you have been following me, you know that I have stepped into the world of middle school this year. Two days a week I hang out with the "I'm too cool for school" crowd... just kidding... sort of. While my middle school students are mostly sweet and funny, sometimes I am just one more person trying to make them do work and speech is just one more thing taking away their study hall time. Some days, I can tell that speech is just NOT where they want to be. I get it. Many of them have to have extra reading classes, constantly have working lunch instead of getting to just hang out with their friends like other students, their study halls are taken away to go receive extra help (or speech), and some even have after school resource time. On days where I can tell that my students have just had too much, I set my plans aside and pull out something a little less stressful: a board game. Now mind you, the games still allow the students to practice their language skills - it's just a little more low key and more fun. Here are some games that I have found to be a hit with my middle schoolers while still focusing on language and pragmatic skills. {Affiliate links provided for your convenience} I play this game the traditional way, as well as backwards by having the students give adjectives to label the noun. It's a great game for working on descriptions as well as defending opinions. I love In a Pickle! It's a fun way to talk about word relationships as well as more defending opinions. Keep your eyes peeled fro Cranium's Whoonu at a thrift shop - it is a fun game for a social skills group. It helps students get to know each other and gets them talking about topics other than Minecraft and video games (which I now know far more about than I ever wanted to know). Bubble Talk is a fantastic game for students working on understanding facial expression, perspective taking, and making inferences. Definitely an essential for your middle school supply arsenal. You've Been Sentenced was another great thrift shop find. Students must use the words on the pentagon shaped cards to make a grammatically correct coherent sentence. The other players act as judges and must give a yay or nay to the sentence, which means everybody is actively involved. I first played Man Bites Dog when another SLP brought it into the office at the rehab facility I work at part time. After playing it, I had to have it for my middle schoolers! Students work on creating headlines using the cards they are given. It is great for targeting word order and vocabulary. I also add a rule that the students must state 3 details that could be included to target main idea vs details. I recently purchased Funglish and it has been a big hit with my competitive students. Students must use word tiles to describe a word while others attempt to guess the word. The only thing I don't like about this game is the timer can be a little short for some of my students who are low readers. I just used the timer on my cell phone to give them a little bit more time. I lucked out and found Moods already in my therapy room at school. It is great for my students working on understanding and expressing emotions. Students are given a sentence and must say it with a given emotion (which usually the sentence does not match the expected emotion). The other students try to guess the emotion based on the student's tone of voice and body language. Another lucky find from the SLP who was at my middle school before me: Blurt. This game is great for word finding and vocabulary building. Students are given a definition and then must come up with a word to match the definition. I take away the racing component and have all students write down an answer they think works and then give points. Otherwise I find that some of my students just cannot keep up. Say the Word is a different style game in that it is a cooperative game. The students must work together to win the game instead of playing against each other. I like this because it forces my students to communicate with each other and work together as a team. In this game, students must create a story using words on a cards that are drawn. Each person must start from the beginning of the story and then add on a part of the story when it gets to their turn. If they forget a part of the story, the other students can give clues (the directions say to act out the clues, but you know - its speech. I have the students give clues without saying the word). I also add a rule that the students must include story grammar elements to form a complete story instead of random events with no clear story line. This game is great for working as a team, auditory memory, and narrative language. Do you work with older students? Comment and share what your favorite language games are! ~Erin Follow
One the best-ever books for speech Therapy. It's great for preschool and elementary social skills lessons and teaching how to handle disappointment.
Whole group activities can be very intimating especially in a preschool setting. You have to keep the activities engaging, but not so appealing that you have difficulty maintaining order and the children learning. If the
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Teaching empathy is important. In the simplest of terms, empathy is the ability to notice, understand, and share the emotions of others. It is a critical social skill for all people to have. In many ways, empathy is the social skill that paves the way for all other social skills. It helps us to take
Teaching children how to play nicely with others is a common social skill that needs to be frequently addressed. As educators we will say things like, “be kind” or “treat others the way you want to be treated”, however we need to explicitly teach these skills. We cannot expect for children to know these social ... Read More about Social Story: Playing Nicely
