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:

This is a fun, motivating and very DIFFERENT idea to target carryover skills, particularly for those older students with speech difficultes.

Articulation cards are a staple in Speech Therapy rooms. Articulation Flash Cards can be used in so many ways with preschoolers and elementary students... buuuttt sometimes they can get boring and repetitive. Check out these articulation card ideas to bring some new and exciting speech therapy activities into your therapy room! You can use these ideas in group therapy or in one-on-one sessions or even send them home for easy articulation homework ideas! • WHAT’S THERE?: Place 5 cards around the

Last school year, interactive notebooks were something brand new to my speech room! Students found them to be engaging and fun! I found them to be basically no-prep. So, of course, it was a wonderful year! haha 🙂 What I find the most exciting about these interactive activities is that they don’t have to be ... Read More about Articulation Lap Book Tutorial (plus freebie!)

Print and go speech therapy activities for articulation and receptive and expressive language. NO PREP Printables for speech therapy.

Fun, colorful speech articulation visuals to display on your wall! These mouths can be displayed in two different poster sizes: - 24 in by 36in - 18 in by 24in Please take a look at my speech clip art sets here: Speech Sounds Mouth Clip Art Set Speech Sounds Mouth Clip Art - SHORT Vowels L and R Sounds Speech Diagrams Clip Art Thanks for looking, and enjoy! Please remember to leave feedback! Christine O'Brien, 2018 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Christine-Obrien

Stunning and detailed speech sound mouth cue cards in 4 different lip shades make accurate and individualized sound cueing easy! A must for any SLP toolkit.

Check out this post for 8 engaging activities for encouraging symbolic sounds and exclamatory words in your early intervention sessions.

This is a digital download A fun way to get articulation trials in! - This resource targets 21 sounds each in initial, medial, final position. - This resource can be used at the word, sentence, and conversational level. - There are over 300 sentences that can be created for each sound!! - This resource also includes companion sheets to help target language goals while working on articulation. This is not a "one and done" product. Use it over and over again with your entire articulation caseload! I LOVE hearing your feedback and ideas for new resources. Let's be friends and work together! Come hang out with me on Instagram or email me at [email protected]

Articulation Books for TH, SH, CH, and J sounds in speech therapy. Tips, strategies, and activities to incorporate into speech and language.

As a Speech and Language Therapist, I spend most of my days assessing children with speech sound difficulties and providing therapy to address any speech sound errors. When I begin working with a child I

Hi, friends! Thank you for stopping by my little blog. I whipped up a quick freebie to share with you today! Back in February, I launched a new NO PREP articulation series. You can read more about that HERE. This series has been a complete hit! My students adored the March game boards and I’m ... Read More about Articulation Game Boards {FREEBIE!}

Are your students unmotivated in your speech sound sessions? Try these articulation sentence level activities to boost engagement and trials!

Because I couldn't find anything I loved, I decided to create this FREEBIE resource of books by speech sound. I included 22 different sounds!

Use this Race to 100 articulation game in your next speech therapy session to help you hit 100 trials! It's perfect for mixed groups.

Articulation therapy CAN be fun, interactive and engaging! So why not put down those cards in speech therapy and try adding some play instead!

A huge free list of sound-loaded books for articulation, sorted by phoneme. Ready to use more books for speech therapy in your sessions? Get the list from Speech Sprouts.

Do you ever have days where you know exactly what you need to target, but are just looking for a different way to do it? I know I have had many days like that, especially when working on articulation. My first year in the schools, I know that I was so frustrated with the monotony (to me at the time) of working on articulation, that I wasn't sure I even wanted to do the job anymore! With my crazy caseload now, I have gotten over the feeling that articulation work is monotonous, and now embrace the time I have with my students working on articulation. We can have so much fun together! So, you may ask, how did I get over the feeling of monotony? Well, I made a deal with myself that I would try to change things up. I would take items that I already had and use them as reinforcing activities during articulation work. Here are ten activities that really work for me: 1. Go Fishin- This is a game that I had in my speech room, and every time I had it out for my preschool population, my older students would see it and want to play too. So, I changed it into a way to use it for articulation work. I wrote numbers on the bottom of each fish, so that each time my students catch a fish, they have to say their word or sentence that many number of times. If I could do this again, I would start with higher numbers (I did 1-4) to get more productions. 2. Making Progressive Sentences- My kids think this is hysterical. We start with one articulation card and make a sentence. "I see a soccer player." Then, we add a card and add to our sentence. "I see a soccer player eating a sandwich." Then, we add even more! "I see a soccer player eating a sandwich with Santa." 3. Chipper Chat- This is my one go to item that is fun for all ages. My students LOVE to pick up the chips with the magnetic wand. Students roll the dice and say their word or sentence the number of times on the dice. Then, they get chips to put on their board. When they fill up the board, they can take the chips off. Sometimes, I have students start with all of the chips on the board and take that number of chips off the board. I use the set from Super Duper Inc., but there are lots of different magnet chip boards that you can find on Teachers Pay Teachers. If you don't buy the Chipper Chat set, you can find a bingo magnet and chips at a store like Wal-Mart or Target. I have even seen them at the dollar store occasionally. 4. Paper Clips on Articulation Cards- This works great with the chipper chat magnet wands. Just put paper clips on your articulation cards, and the kids can go fishing for cards. I like to put the cards face down so that the cards are a "surprise" each time. 5. Memory- Ok, I'm sorry, but really, my kids of all ages still LOVE to play memory! I try not to play it too often so it doesn't wear out it's welcome though. 6. Paper Bag- Put cards in a paper bag and pull them out. Try to guess what you will get before you pull it out. If you guess correctly, you get to keep it. First person to guess all of their cards correctly wins. Some kids have a really eerie ability to do this! 7. A Good Book- I love to take a good book out for students and try to find words that start with their sound. I pull out a piece of paper and we write down all of the words that have their sound. I love when I can have them bring books from class for this so that they may think about those words again during reading groups with their teacher. 8. Categories! I have students pick a word from their articulation cards and tell me the category of the item. We create piles of different categories and see how many different piles we can make. Students have to say their word in a sentence, "A sandwich is an food." I love this activity because students get both articulation and language benefits. 9. Guess the Item- I describe the articulation word to the student and see if they can guess the word I am describing. 10. Articulation Recall- We roll the dice to see how many cards the student has to recall. I then present that number of words to the student and give them a moment to memorize them. Then, we flip them over face down and see if the student can recall each word before flipping it back. There you have it! Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned veteran, hopefully some of these ideas will help you to cut the monotony and put more fun in your articulation sessions.

Make speech therapy easy and fun with this Easter-themed resource! This spring product includes sound-loaded scenes to target the correct production of the /p/, /b/, and /m/ sounds in the initial, medial, and final positions of words. The following is included: •Three sound-loaded scenes (one for /p/, one for /b/, and one for /m/) **NOTE: These picture scenes are the same scenes included in the resource titled "Easter Bilabial Sounds Articulation Activities for Speech Therapy."

There are many speech sound differences between English versus Spanish. Grab my free PDF download that describes sound differences

I remember the day I found out there were two ways to say the R sound. It blew my tiny grad school mind! "TWO WAYS TO SAY R!? So you mean there's the way I

Now before I start, maybe I should shed some light on our secret speech-pathologist language for all of my "non-speechie" readers. (If you ARE a non-speechie reader, OMGoodness, thanks for stopping by and taking the slightest

Two years ago I posted this image on my SLP Runner Facebook Page of a strategy I was using with students. My students really liked figuring out the blending words and they made progress at producing their sounds. I received a lot of feedback on this idea and knew that I wanted to create a product with this idea in mind. I have an abundance of ideas sitting in a folder taunting me to get started. Fast forward to last week when we were hit with 2 feet of snow in Vermont. The storm resulted in two snow days and I finally sat down and got to work. 16 hours later, and with the help of some adorable clip art I bring to you S-Blends Snake. Enjoy a Snnnnnnnnappy, Snnnnnnnnnnazzy, Ssssssssspecial kind of day.

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!

These simple, parent-friendly ideas for making speech therapy fun at home can encourage your child to practice their speech sounds.

Here are my tips and tricks for moving from making sounds in isolation to working on the VC and CV syllables during articulation therapy.

Fun and easy speech therapy activities to target the th sound. Your students will love this thrilling therapy theme!

Articulation Therapy for S Your student has an interdental lisp– or maybe a lateral lisp– and you’re feeling stuck. This feeling is something I came across often in my speech therapy sessions. One day, I decided it was time to do something about it. I wanted to correct those lisps. I’m somewhat of a perfectionist...

Preschoolers aren’t made to sit still during Speech Therapy (or ever, for that matter!). That’s a fact. It is not developmentally appropriate for a preschool or kindergarten student to sit for an hour. Set your students (and yourself!) up for success by incorporating movement into your speech therapy sessions! Moving during speech therapy sessions doesn’t have to be difficult, fancy, or complicated. You can move as a break, but I prefer to incorporate movement as a therapy activity (but, remembe

Tension in R Therapy is important. I will tell you how to, and why you should be working on it with students.