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BOOM CARDSMy students love how engaging Boom Cards can be! Using the Zoom platform, I can share my screen, pull up a Boom Card resource and hand over

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If your an SLP, in any setting, you know the name Pam Marshalla. She is one of the most influential speech-language pathologists in our field. I have referred to her work so many times when I felt stuck and her tips always helped me in treating difficult articulation cases. Unfortunately, we lost her 2015 and it was a tremendous loss, but lucky for us, her work lives on. Her latest accomplishment, The Marshalla Guide, was published this year and it is a valuable resource that every SLP should have on their bookshelf.

Idioms are a type of figurative language that SLPs work on because they are essential to communicate effectively and for academic success.

Part of my role at our district early childhood center is to complete incoming evaluations for children entering the program. We have about half of our students come from the state birth to three program

It is often challenging for students to say or write something when they do not know the correct word (or can’t remember the word) that they want to use. During a conversation or speaking activity…

I’ve rounded up some of my favorite speech related TED talks!

I work on /s/ blends so much, I feel like I could recite all /s/ blends in existence. In my sleep.

Check this post out for some simple ideas to implement in therapy with young stuttering clients. Post includes The Speech Guy and Speech Roads Stuttering therapy with kids is so tricky! There is this balance between teaching awareness of the stutter and lowering emotional reactivity to the stutter that I am still working on mastering. It is different for each child and you really have to get a feel for how they will react. I only had 3 stuttering kids on my caseload this past year and they were as different as different can be. I tried doing the therapy in a group and it worked out okay but man it was tricky since they had such individual strengths and weaknesses, planning their sessions was a bear! Here are a few little lessons that really worked for all 3 of them (they were all 6-7 years old). The Speech Guy Two of my three stuttering kids had started to develop fairly severe secondary behaviors during stuttering moments. These are behaviors that happen as the child tries to get past the stuttering moment and can include funny facial and/or body movements to try to help them out of the stutter. Examples include eye twitches, loss of eye contact, slapping the leg, rocking the head forward, clicking the mouth, arrested breath, avoding words that are hard to say and a lot more. It honestly freaked me out when I evaluated them because I had no idea how to work with stuttering, especially stuttering that was severe enough to present with secondary behaviors. My supervisor at the district suggested I talk about the different parts that we use for speech and how they affect our talking. We found this Speech Guy on therapsimplicity.com. It was an awesome starting point for these kids and a fun activity to send home. We talked about each of the parts and how we use them for speech (mouth, nose, eyes, ears, voicebox, lungs) and the funny things that happen sometimes when we get "stuck" (raising eye brows, wiggling nose, tensing mouth, arrested breath, etc). The kids got to color their speech guy and the parts and take them home and tell their parents about them. Speech Roads My stuttering kids are fairly young and I was trying to come up with a good way for them to listen and evaluate stuttering behaviors. I drew these little "speech roads" during our lesson when I was trying to describe different types of "bumpy" speech to them. They really latched on to the road and we ended up using them a lot in our sessions. I cut them apart and had the kids hold up the speech road (smooth, bumpy or road block) that matched how the person was talking. Once they could identify what speech road I was using I had them listen to themselves and evaluate their own speech. I made copies that they could take home and practice evaluating theirs and other's speech.

Knowing basic parts of speech can be helpful for English Language Learners. It helps give them structure in their speaking and writing. It is a great way to introduce new vocabulary words and lends itself well to sorting activities. Many language standards in the Common Core cover parts of speech. Here are some strategies for

As a follow-up to my 3 part series of 20 Ways to Get Your Students Speaking in the Target Language, I created this list of 15 creative Spanish speaking activities to use in class. Here is a collection of my favorite ideas and activities to get your students talking. Beware: Once they start talking, they

Need ideas for getting more repetitions during articulation therapy? Here are some articulation activities speech therapy high-trial ideas!

Could I BE any more excited about this? Anwser: No. Not possible. A goal of mine is to always have a home program for my students. Always. Regardless of whether they do it or not, I feel like it's my job to provide it. And typically, I'm quite the procrastinator, so the home practice they […]

Newcomer students receive some support from an ELD (English Language Development) teacher in most elementary schools. The majority of their time is spent in their grade level classroom. Here are some strategies for supporting a newcomer student both in their grade level classroom and areas to focus on during targeted language development lessons. Create a

If you work or live with kids who always use a loud voices, don't miss this free printable game for working on controlling voice volume.

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See the world's major languages broken down by country in this stunning visualization.

Confession time...I'm a terrible singer. Like, turrible. But I don't let that stop me (Follow your dreams, people) from belting out my own little diddies and dance moves in my therapy sessions. Why? Mostly because it draws attention and makes my students laugh. But also, I know that movements and chants and rhymes can all help my students engage and learn. Like the kind of learning that sticks. Let's take a look at some research:

As a Speech Language Patholgoist, you know just how challenging it can be to keep your students engaged and motivated throughout their therapy sessions. However, what if Itold you there's a way to make those sessions not only fun, but also incredibly effective? Introducing, dinosaur speech therapy lesson plans! By incorporating these prehistoric creatures into your child's learning experience, you can unleash their inner explorer and help them develop vital language skills. In this article, we'

“How many words should a 2 year old be saying?”, “When do children use their first words?”, “How can I help my child’s language skills?”.These are questions parents & caregivers often search online, and questions

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

Learn about expressive language delay including how to treat all of the different areas included under this diagnosis. For parents or SLPs

Speech therapy inferencing: how and why we work on inferences and predictions, plus 100 real photo inferencing picture scenes!

Can I tell you a sneaky secret? One of the best things about being in a new school is that I can pull out old therapy activities, and they don't know. They love it because it's new to them. And that my friends, makes my life just a little bit easier.

Use these 3 simple language games to improve your toddler's speech and help develop their articulation, language, and pre-reading skills. The following post 'Improve Your Toddler's Speech' was written in collaboration with my own mom, Jamie Bott, M.A., C.C.C. Licensed & Certified Speech & Language Pathologist / Reading Endorsed by the State of Florida. Every parent wants their child to grow up to become a

Help your students write in complete sentences like a champ! This is a digital Sentence Patterning Chart Jamboard using GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) strategy commonly used for ESOL, World Languages, SPED, SLIFE instruction.  Digital Sentence Patterning Jamboard Instructions ⭐Color coded parts of speech frames match colors of Jamboard sticky notes. ⭐Co-create word banks with your students using Jamboard's sticky notes feature OR provide pre-filled word banks for each part of speech. ⭐Students will drag and drop appropriate words in the squares. ⭐Using the "text" tool, students will write the complete sentence in the space provided.  ⭐Helps students expand sentences and learn the parts of speech This product includes: Jamboard with 8 frames ✨Adjective┃Noun┃Verb┃Adverb┃Prepositional Phrase ✨Noun┃Verb┃Preposition┃Noun ✨Noun┃Verb┃Adjective┃Noun ✨Noun┃Verb┃Noun ✨Noun┃Verb┃Adjective ✨Pronoun┃Verb┃Noun ✨Pronoun┃Verb┃Adjective 10-page Google Slides [Editable] ✨Download each slide as an image [File --> Download --> JPG Image] and set it as background in Jamboard or other interactive whiteboard (Seesaw, Miro or Whiteboard.chat) ✨You can edit the charts as needed [Slide --> Edit Master] Watch this quick run-through video on how to edit the chart in Google Slides. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RHNc2y0gBiYdn11X0lVHel1eAcjmRE6I/view

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Confession time...I'm a terrible singer. Like, turrible. But I don't let that stop me (Follow your dreams, people) from belting out my own little diddies and dance moves in my therapy sessions. Why? Mostly because it draws attention and makes my students laugh. But also, I know that movements and chants and rhymes can all help my students engage and learn. Like the kind of learning that sticks. Let's take a look at some research:

I have quite a few kiddos in my older grades (read: 5-8) working on figurative language. Many of these students have difficulty with understanding nonliteral language, so we spend a lot of time on this stuff. We mostly work on curriculum based activities, using literature to address these types of goals, so I do not create materials for them very often. But they have been asking me to "make some games for them, like the ones you make the little kids" and so I have obliged. I have created this 32 page resource full of figurative language activities! It addresses idioms, common proverbs, similes, and metaphors.

Supervising grad students has become one of my favorite things about being an SLP. I love how it challenges me in this season of my career, the relationships I get to build with up and coming SLPs, and all the new things I get to learn about myself and this field. With each student, I feel like I get better at supervising (Dear Tracie, my first SLP intern. I'm sorry I had no idea what I was doing. Glad it turned out fine and we're still friends :) ). I've come to realize that I needed to front load a lot of information, so I just wanted to share with you about this binder that I've created with everything I'm giving students now.

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Have you ever used a zoo or safari theme? I have done the jungle, farms, and the ocean, but never a safari or zoo theme. Children love doing animal activities, so I know they will enjoy zoo activities! Some folks are anti-zoo, which I totally get, so you can call it a safari or whatever you like. Here are the books and activities that are going to help you bring this theme to life in your therapy room:

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Find out about 1 year old speech and language skills and learn how a 12-month old should be communicating and interacting with the world around him.

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