Are your older students fully engaged in your speech and language lessons? Get them motivated with these 5 tips, tools and activities!
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
5 ways to help keep your middle and high school aged students engaged while working on conversational skills in speech therapy.
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I fell in love working in speech therapy for middle school! Don't let this awesome group intimidate you, but read about the pros and cons!
One question I am asked a lot is, "What are your favorite games and activities to use with middle school students in speech-language therapy?" Today, I would like to share with you my top 13 favorites! One
I know many of you have told me that you struggle with finding age-appropriate materials for your middle school students. I know, because I struggle with this too! You can check out some great
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
No more guessing about what themes your older speech therapy students will love! Get tons of specific ideas for themed therapy with your middle and high school students.
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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 [...]
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
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Working on conversation skills with older students? The January social skills lesson plan for middle and high school students is full of activities for speech therapy!
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Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
NO PREP 51 Self-Advocating Task Cards & Role-Play Scenarios. The 51 Self-Advocating Task Cards & Role Play Scenarios include the following categories: Self-Advocating in the School Setting Accommodations in the School Setting Academically in the School Setting Online Learning/Homework in the School Setting Socially in the School Setting Graduation in the School Setting Activities/Athletics in the School Setting Self-Advocating in the Workplace Setting Self-Advocating in the Real World (4 additional) BLANK Self-Advocating Task Cards & Role-Play Scenarios What professionals would benefit from these products: ➡️ SLPs, Speech Therapists ➡️ Special Education Teachers ➡️ General Education Teachers ➡️ Other Service Providers (Social Worker, Mental Health) ➡️ Transition Program Teachers ➡️ Life Skills Teachers ➡️ Vocational Teachers ➡️ Parents This product was designed for Middle and High School students. Product can be used with students during in-person, as well as, during distance learning, online learning, or teletherapy sessions. Middle and High School students are learning to become more independent in their ability to self-advocate. Being able to appropriately and effectively advocate for yourself is a crucial communication skill for adolescents to develop. Advocating for yourself allows you to get the help you need to be successful in the school setting, workplace setting, and to be more prepared for the real world. Communicating in a clear, organized fashion when advocating for yourself is equally important. The 51 Self-Advocating Task Cards & Role Play Scenarios found in this product provide a framework to effectively teach the skill of self-advocating in a clear, organized, and detailed manner. This product contains guiding questions to facilitate understanding of self-advocating steps for students. These guiding questions allow students to process through all the information they will need to advocate for themselves and will provide a framework for pre-planning their advocating conversation. Each self-advocating scenario is meant to be role-played after the student has answered the guiding questions. Lastly, follow-up questions were created for each self-advocating scenario to further broaden the student's understanding of each advocating situation. These follow-up questions were created to be asked after the student has role-played the self-advocating scenario. These follow-up questions are meant to broaden and expand on the student's perspective and knowledge around the self-advocating situation they may face in real-life.
No more guessing about what themes your older speech therapy students will love! Get tons of specific ideas for themed therapy with your middle and high school students.
Do you want to find motivating games for the older students on your caseload? Although I do not work with that age group now, I have worked with them in the past. It is a very difficult group to work with. Curriculum expectations are getting more intense, self awareness kicks in, and planning can be a nigh ...
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
SLPs know that older students in speech therapy often need fresh, new activities to stay engaged. Using logic is a great strategy to draw in middle school and high school students into articulation practice.
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
Manage your middle schoolers during speech therapy with my 10 best strategies for behavior management to encourage and motivate!
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
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This novel unit on Restart is for students in a special education setting and has 32 activities and questions for each chapter.
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The Ultimate Guide to High School Speech Therapy Activities provides Speech Language Pathologists a reference point for easily locating educational resources for older students. Many children are able to master their speech goals in elementary or middle school and no longer require therapy services. But all too often w
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This activity is a pack of 42 social scenarios to help middle school and high school students work on important conversation and social skills. This activity has a focus on the concept of when to share our thoughts, and when to keep them to ourselves. These cards use social scenarios that are common, real life scenarios and should help to provide plenty of conversation skill practice, discussions and learning in your speech (and other!) therapy sessions. SAVE TIME SESSION PLANNING! These task cards will help to take therapy session planning and brainstorming OUT of your hands and should last you several therapy sessions. When mixed with other task card decks or therapy activities, this deck alone should last months for a weekly student!! A QUICK AND EASY "GO TO" FOR YOUR TOOL BAG! Very low prep (just print and go, or even quicker - just read from your laptop/tablet!). WHAT'S INCLUDED? - 42x social scenario task cards - Coloured AND black and white versions included WHO IS THIS FOR? Regular education teachers, special education teachers, SLPs, OTs and other support professionals could all benefit from using these task cards with their students!These cards are specifically designed for middle and high school aged students. HOW DO I USE THEM? *These task cards can be used for an individual, a small group or a class* Individual ideas: o Side activity during a board game or other therapy activity! o A “break” between therapy activities if the other activities are worksheet-heavy or targeting another skill! o Use these cards as a therapy activity itself (I absolutely do!) o “Warm up cards” for the start of each session. o Quick assessment of skills. o Homework. o Use them as conversation prompts/starters. You can even use them to simultaneously target additional skills like expressive language, speech, reading comprehension/decoding. Small group and/or classroom ideas: o Put the task cards up in different parts of the room (or outside!) and have students walk around with the room with their answer sheets and clip boards. o Have students get into pairs and talk about their answers and thoughts together. o Use a card or two each morning as part of a guided class discussion. o Use the cards as a guide for an open ended quiz. Use the flashcards to ask the class the questions, and get the students to write their answers on a sheet to hand up. WANT A FREEBIE? First of all, thank you for supporting me and purchasing my resource from my store. As a huge thank you for your support from me to you, here is a freebie resource just for you! A full, complete resource just for you :) Want this resource, but for your younger students? Here it is! Want more conversation skills activities for your older students? Check these activities out! - Starting a conversation - Conversation scripts - community and workplace edition - Conversation scripts - school and friends edition - Responding in everyday interactions Would you rather these cards be in BOOM card format? Click here for the BOOM version of these cards instead. Let's connect! Add me on Instagram! Follow me on Pinterest! Follow my store to get notifications for new products, sales and freebies! ***Don't forget to leave feedback! Leaving feedback will give you TPT credits that can be used on future purchases!***
The Ultimate Guide to Middle School Speech Therapy Activities provides Speech Language Pathologists a reference point for easily locating educational resources for older students. Many children are able to master their speech goals in elementary school and no longer require therapy services. But all too often we have s
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When you hear about SLPs using themes in speech therapy, you may envision crafts, picture books, and preschoolers.... not middle and high school students. I totally get it. The truth is, the majority of theme-specific speech therapy activities include cartoon graphics and building early language.But that's not the only way to do themed therapy. Ironically, as my interest in using themes grew, so did my caseload of older students. Around the time that I started doing teletherapy full time, I chan
