Learn about hypernasal speech treatment, including how to assess, 6 treatment ideas, and when to refer out.
Highly engage your students with these, relevant, real-world language activity for the classroom or speech therapy. The short text message convos allow students (who are often struggling readers) to read confidently and use these relatable situations to practice lots of language skills (see the list below). They also spark great conversations! ⚠️ Be sure to check out the preview to see much more! How to use and which skills are targeted; ► Students (or you) read the text messages one at a time, and then discuss them using questions included below the iPhone graphic. ► The questions provided require students to read (and possibly re-read) carefully for details, use critical thinking and apply observations (such as the time of day and names of the parties involved). ► Students are asked to perform these crucial academic language skills: inferencing (120 questions included) justifying their responses or citing evidence from the text (15 questions) explaining figurative language (7 questions) making predictions (7 questions) analyzing emotions (7 questions) proposing helpful solutions (6 questions) ► Plus, a few questions for each of the using context clues to decipher words telling the main idea describing mood comparing/contrasting giving opinions A whole range of language skills are applied through this simple activity, and students aren't bogged down in lenghty text. ► This resource is also useful for discussing the “dos and don’ts” of conversations (when communicating verbally OR through texting). Topics like repairing conversations, showing sympathy, showing support, and expressing disappointment can easily be tackled using these cards. What's in this download ► 36 text message conversation cards along with 4-7 questions per conversation ► 6 cards featuring blank phone screens for you or your students to write on (in case there are specific scenarios you want to address or in case you want to challenge students to write their own conversations) ► 6 wild cards to use when you the whole set of cards as a game (described in the download and preview) ► Instructions for use (with options) ► a make-your-own-jean-pocket to hold the cards if desired ► The aligned Common Core Standards for grades 4-8 If you enjoy this activity, here are some related activities using text messages/cell phones and making inferences that you may also enjoy: ✱ Cell phone Role Play Activity Freebie ✱ Cell phone Role Play Activity Part 2 ✱ Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions with Text Messages ✱ Articulation Text Messages ✱ Inferences and WHO Questions Boom Cards™ Thanks for considering my resources for your instruction! ⚫ Find more from me at my ➔ Website ➔ TpT ➔ IG ➔ FB ➔ YouTube ➔ Free Resource Library ➔ Pinterest
One of my all-time favorite speech/language therapy games! Whoonu is a great therapy game for all ages! My students absolutely love this game, and I do too! It's a wonderful "getting to know you" game for initial sessions, and it has many practical therapy applications as well. One player gets to be the "judge" each round, while the other players choose a card from their deck in hopes that the judge will select it as his or her favorite. The judge then places the cards face up, in order of most to least favorite (with, you guessed it, the most favorite counting for the highest point value). As the judge completes this task, he or she needs to explain each choice using clear, fluent speech and complete sentences- that's how you sneak those IEP goals into all the fun. ;) Some Speech-Language Therapy Applications: * Articulation- Since I enjoy this game as well, I play with the group. For my artic kids, I choose the cards based on their speech sounds, not necessarily the cards that will score me the most points. * Fluency- Students are asked to use smooth, fluent speech while explaining their selections * Language - I require each student to explain their choices using complete sentences. * Pragmatics - The students interact appropriately with peers & use good turn-taking skills. I hope this game makes its way on to your list of go-to therapy games! :) Whoonu Game on Amazon.com These are my personal opinions and I have not been compensated in any way. :)
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I was doing some research for my Language Goal List and stumbled across this awesome Language Processing Hierarchy Method Treatment Model handout.
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This is a describing unit that has a group of friendly aliens who have landed on earth. Students are asked to help the aliens figure out about things on earth. Contains a “story page” for each describing aspect about helping each alien figure out what to do with all of the things they find on earth! 248 therapy cards, plus additional game cards and customizable blank cards are included! Grab it in my TPT Store! Functions & Describing The functions and describing units use the same basic group of cards, with two extra pages of animal cards to use for describing. The describing unit includes a cue sheet to use to help students think up multiple items. Game cards are included. Students collect as many aliens as they can by helping them. Some cards allow them to take an extra turn, others mean they lose a turn or lose all their cards. The describing unit has a visual cue sheet to help students describe multiple elements for each object. Functions/Describing: 48 object cards, 16 animal cards to use in describing not functions. Comparing: The comparing unit ask students to label how two given items are similar and how they are different. 56 cards are included. Categories: The categories unit can be played in several ways. Students can label items from the category name, label category names from groups of items or match the two together. 80 cards are in this unit, 40 category labels and 40 items cards Labeling from Description: Two descriptors are included on each card. Most can apply to multiple things. 48 Cards are included. Game Cards come in each unit! Blank cards are also included to add your own items as appropriate for your caseload. Grab this great set in my TPT store!
Everything you need to know about speech delay in bilingual children. Includes infographics with milestones and red flags to look out for.
This is a follow up to my previous post about getting students to answer WH questions. Knowing how to answer questions isn't enough. After students have basic question answering skills they need to apply those skills to comprehension and fact recall questions. After all, that's what we need to be able to do in conversation. There are lots of ways to do this. I like to start at the level of sentences and work my way up. It's actually amazing how many of my kids can't do the following task: Read the story "Cindy has a small yellow car." Who has a car? What color is the car? Is the car big or small? Although, no longer surprised, when my student's can't do this, I'm always amazed at how they make it through the school day. So much of our learning is through auditory input and we test it by requiring them to answer questions. Link to document is below. There is a lot of practice material at the sentence level out there. Super Duper has a Auditory Memory for Details in Sentences deck that isn't in my possession, but is on my wish list. Their Auditory Adventures Pack does have a few pages of practice material at this level. As I am working on this skill with groups of 3-4 students, I quickly ran out of practice material. As a solution, so I made a list of my own. The Google Doc is here. After kids pass the sentences level there are lots of things you can do. Super duper has a bunch of other card decks that I use frequently. The Auditory Memory for Short Stories is great for elementary ages, where the Auditory Memory For Science Stories and the Auditory Memory for Science Stories are great for my 6th through 8th grade students. The No-Glamour Listening Comphrension Book by Linguisystems has a lot of stories at varying levels. As fun as the fancy card decks and materials are, my absolute favorite thing to use in therapy is picture books. There are so many questions you can ask about the stories and they are a GREAT way to engage kids in the therapy sessions. My favorite series are the Clifford and Bernstein Bears book. I love Clifford for the variety of topics, the clear sentences have the right amount of content and the pictures are great for lower levels of questions in mixed groups. Bernstein Bears are a little more wordy, and you will spend more time reading, but they are FANTASTIC for discussing social skills for your middle and higher functioning autism students. (I pair them with the Berenstein Bears Learn to Share Game and have been getting excellent connections). For older kids I really enjoy the Dorreen Cronin Books. They have just the right amount of higher level vocabulary for good dicsussion with some of my lower level and ELL students. I have been doing push in sessions in a 5th grade special education / ELL groups and these books have been a huge hit. We did Duck for President during their Government unit and they all had a lot of fun. I've done a couple of her other books with them and they really enjoyed them. Another big hit was a Christmas Present from a friend of mine. It was a great book for discussing what was happening, the effects of large amounts of penguins and making predictions about what would happen if more penguins kept arriving. I did it about a month ago and my students are still talking about it! I recommend it for grades 4-6. I'm entering to win free apps and you should too! And another app giveaway
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Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
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.
Asking and answering questions is a critical skill in language development, and are two very different concepts to teach!
I know many of you can't directly talk about the holidays at school. Secular, religious or otherwise. I wanted to go ahead and share these winter packets with you. I will use them in January and
Aaron Rose was born profoundly deaf due to the genetic mutation Connexin 26. At the age of seven, he received a cochlear implant that he wears to this day. In school, Aaron didn’t request any…
Oftentimes our AAC users do a lot of requesting: for food, TV shows, videos. But what about all the other reasons we communicate? Learn how to move beyond requesting and build more language to communicate for all different reasons.
Sometimes when working with young children on the production of speech sounds, it is helpful to provide the little one’s with a fun label, or name, for the sound(s) you are teaching. Providing a visual cue to go along with the label is also very helpful, to provide multisensory instruction. Several years ago I asked […]
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PODD is a way of organising word and symbol vocabulary in a communication book or speech generating device for people with complex communication needs.
Summarizing is tricky skill for kids of all ages, but I'm sharing a tip to make summarizing easy for older students. Read this post to get the full scoop!
