Here are my speech room organization dos and don'ts for getting your classroom therapy ready! Free organizational resources are included!
Learn how to create functional speech room decor with interactive bulletin boards that you can utilize throughout your therapy sessions.
Free speech therapy printables - Developmental milestones, hierarchies, and graphics for SLPs and educators!
This is a blog about a speech therapy room tour. It contains materials for speech students and simple items in the speech room.
If you are struggling with how to set up your push-in speech therapy sessions, this post will give a framework for how to do it!
Help your students learn how to answer wh questions with these 108 wh questions worksheets task cards. Be sure to print the wh questions poster...
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:
Get the best tips for setting up speech folders with links to everything you need to stay organized during back to school season!
These FREE speech sound cue cards have a picture of a mouth producing the sound and a picture to remind your students of the sound.
Are you on a hunt for free speech therapy online activities and games that are perfect for teletherapy? Then be sure to check out this list!
As the ONLY special education teacher in my building, I ALWAYS wanted to get a peek inside other classrooms. Get a peek inside 10 classroom tours!
I have found some great teletherapy resources in the last few months but I am still missing all the games from my speech room. Now that I have figured out how to use my Osmo as a document camera I thought this would open up the possibilities of using some of my games during teletherapy! I went through my games and came up with six games/activities that I can play while screen sharing. I have tweaked some of the instructions just a little to make it work and some I changed up the rules to help be more specific in targeting goals. Here's a collection of six games to screen share during teletherapy! Rory's Story Cubes These little cubes are great for so many language and articulation goals! You can target naming/identifying pictures, using verbs, self-monitoring articulation skills, producing grammatically correct sentences, generating a narrative, and telling a story using sequencing skills just to name a few. While I was sharing about these cubes Hanna from My Literacy Space commented letting me know there is an awesome app too! I think the app is probably a better option to share during therapy as the dice are bigger. When I share the app I don't need to use the Osmo, but I just didn't take it apart. I followed the same steps as I would if I were screen sharing the Osmo (just opened the app I wanted instead of the Osmo document camera app). Kids on Stage This game can target understanding categories (animals, objects, and actions), following directions, and making inferences. First, spin the spinner, and then choose a matching card to act out. The other players in the game aren't supposed to see the card so I usually just have them turn around, or cover/close their eyes. First player to guess correctly gets a point and first player to 5 points wins! HedBanz Junior This one is played a little differently over teletherapy. We don't wear the headbands instead, we take turns flipping over a card and the other players in the group have to ask questions to figure out what the card may be. I like the junior version for my younger kids because all the cards are animals. With this game, we can target naming animals, following directions, taking turns, asking/answering questions, using articulation skills in conversation, and making inferences. Pickles to Penguins This fun card game is the best for practicing comparing and/or contrasting which is what it's all about! You flip over two cards and someone has to tell what the two objects have in common. I usually challenge my kids to see who can find the most similar characteristics (or differences depending on what we're targeting) between the two objects. Pictionary My drawing skills are not the best but this game is always a fun one! Pictionary is so easy to change depending on what you are targeting. I rarely use the cards that come with the actual game. Instead, if we're working on articulation skills I flash cards that contain the targeted sound (you also need to tell the other players to turn around during this part too). If we're working on verbs I use pictures of verbs and so on. We keep score by who can shout out the name of the picture fastest. When playing with kids over the computer we just use a marker and notebook paper but I do like that the game now comes with a dry erase board and marker! Spot It Spot It is one of my favorite games to play when we have a few minutes left in a session. Over teletherapy, I put down one card face up and then a pile of cards face down. I flip one card from the pile over at a time. I usually only change one of the cards each round. The person who can shout out the match first gets a point. First player to 5 points wins! I hope that gave you some ideas of how to can use games you already have during teletherapy. If you are unable to use the Osmo as a document camera or don't have a document camera/Osmo you could easily adapt most of these games by just showing the cards using the built-in web camera. Just be sure to tell any other players in the group not to peek when flashing the cards or dice.
Seasonal + Simple = Success! Sometimes the most magical therapy moments are hidden within the simplest of items. Today I’m hoping you just might fall in love with my ideas for using baby pumpkins, gourds and leaves in your sessions. (As a bonus, I’m also sharing my favorite fall books because who doesn’t love using […]
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I have to share with you something that I have found to be amazing this year. It is called Articulation Centers. I was hesitant at first to ...
For our learners who need to work on foundational learning skills, such as simple matching, I have always love creating hands on task boxes put-in tasks and color sorting tasks. My classroom closet always looked like it could be featured on an episode of hoarders. I kept every shoe box, coffee container, baby jar, and
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If your child struggles with articulation, fluency, voice regulation, understanding and expressing himself through language, or nonverbal autism, these speech therapy activities are a great place to start!
Engage your teletherapy students with these interactive activities. From Boom Cards to PDF annotation, keep your virtual speech therapy sessions focused and fun!
Keep teletherapy fresh with these FREE speech therapy websites, resources, games, and materials.
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If your child has autism and/or sensory processing disorder, we’ve got 16 simple to set-up oral motor activities for kids to help with a variety of challenges like picky eating and inappropriate chewing, sucking & biting.
This is a blog with a back to school checklist for SLPs. It's an easy read with helpful tips for back to school caseload management.
These free short stories with WH questions include three levels of support. Perfect for working on WH questions or auditory comprehension.
Grab your list of 35 free speech therapy data sheets here! Learn how to use google froms for your speech therapy data collection.
Digital and printable camping themed activities and freebies for speech and language therapy!
Learn how to make a speech theme calendar and get a free SLP themed planner to help you at the start of the school year!
Let's face it, sometimes speech therapy drills can get boring. Getting all those repetitions is well... repetitious. Adding a fun game keeps my
Functional life skills activities round-up! Discover resources to download and use in speech therapy and the classroom.
Planning for Teletherapy can be so challenging and time consuming! Here is a list of all of my favorite tele-therapy websites to help make planning easier!
If your child struggles with articulation, fluency, voice regulation, understanding and expressing himself through language, or nonverbal autism, these speech therapy activities are a great place to start!
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Grab your list of 35 free speech therapy data sheets here! Learn how to use google froms for your speech therapy data collection.
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
Oral Motor Exercises for Children, skills refer to the appropriate functioning and use of the facial muscles lips, jaw, tongue, cheeks etc.
Prompt versus cue - Have you ever wondered the difference? Prompting and cueing are critical components of teaching new skills.
When you teach in a multiple disabilities classroom, there is often a lot of equipment in a multiple disabilities classroom
I have to admit something, I am not a good interior designer. I can create a resource for days, but give me empty wall space.... I decided that I was not going to stress about decorating my new (large) speech room, so I searched TPT & Pinterest for functional speech room decor. I also decided that if I am going to have this wonderful stuff on my wall, I wanted some of it to be removable! I wanted to be able to take it down and use it with students at the table or on the carpet. So after hou
Community outings can help teach students in a natural environment. Grab your free printables for high school students today and start practicing...
