All of my Middles and Littles enjoy Play-Doh. It easily keeps them busy for an hour, sometimes all afternoon. I had no idea how many free printable Play-Doh mats are out there until I started loo…

Kids need to know and learn how to express their emotions. These circle time lessons about emotions for preschool. FREE printables included.

Happy Friday everyone! I've had a crazy busy first week of school. I'm sure you know how that goes. Gotta love figuring out schedules,...

I have so so many R kids on my caseload right now. In that past, that statement would be followed with a mournful sigh, or possibly with me throwing my head

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What is tongue thrust? Tongue thrust (also called "reverse" or "immature" swallow) is the common name given to orofacial muscular imbalance, a human behavioral pattern in which the tongue protrudes through the anterior incisors during swallowing, speech and while the tongue is at rest.

The following is a sample of some goals I write for students with communication disorders. Please feel free to bookmark this page and reference when writing goals and objectives. You make share a link to

My best tips for teaching /r/ in articulation therapy! Placement cues, product reviews and /r/ word lists to help your students succeed!

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

Cariboo is a favorite with my students, and with the preschoolers that one of my coworkers work with. If you don't have a copy, it's not ...

Do you have someone in your life experiencing aphasia? Are you a speech pathologist looking for resources to explain aphasia to your clients? Our downloadable poster, made in conjunction with … Continued

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.

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...

According to the Common Core Standards and our new district wide reading pacing guide, we are working on the concept of inferring. We just ...

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I have a 15 year old with ASD/ADHD/SLD, who goes to an Autism school and is doing very well and catching up on school after a long drawn out battle with trying to make it in public school. I also have a 14 year old and a kindergartner with Aspergers, and a kindergartener with ADHD and other learning issues due to brain bleeds at birth and a grand mal seizure. I have three teens and twin kindergarteners! I homeschool my kindergarteners and it has been going really well so far! With much research, trying many things, talking to teachers and therapists at Autism schools and therapy facilities, I have found the best products to help your fidgety child concentrate!! I recommend starting with the headphones and yoga ball if you are on a budget!! I added all of the items, which are not all pictured here, to my amazon store. Check out each product HERE!! a must have!! excellent product I just found! a big must for getting the wiggles out! best adjustable height table ever!!! love these chairs vibrating weighted turtle! A MUST MUST MUST have! these are amazing!! totally worth the money! great option for Autism, adjusts! well loved item!! MEGA MUST HAVE! (strengthens hands and fingers) for under table or out in open space great item! great for on a chair! See these items and all of the rest of the products on the list HERE Visit Kristen (Caution! Twins at Play)'s profile on Pinterest. Follow Kristen (Caution! Twins at Play)'s board Light Tables, Light Boxes, Light Panels & Light Play on Pinterest. Visit The Ultimate Light Table Guide's profile on Pinterest.

A fully interactive digital speech therapy articulation No Print to target S, Z and S-blends in words, phrases, sentences and conversation!Students choose a character to begin.Then they practice the character's name and choose 1 of the 3 pictures below.These pictures will add on a surprise phrase an...

When I was in graduate school in the mid-90s, a family hired me to take care of their two-year old son, Jayden. He did not imitate or make any sounds.

Do you often search to find strategies to use with your older students? Are you struggling to incorporate curriculum-related activities in a therapy-type way!? One strategy I use in my therapy room is a "Comprehension Question Guide." Once I find my students are starting to comprehend the different q ...

Author: Kelly DiPucchio Illustrator: Heather Ross Interest Level: Ages 4 and Up Book Website: Crafty Chloe From the Book Jacket: Chloe has a crafty solution to every problem. But when she needs the perfect birthday present for her best friend, Emma, she starts to feel a little insecure. How can a handmade gift ever make the cut? Even if it is very purple? Why It's On My Bookshelf: Chloe is everything we want our kids to be. I'm so incredibly happy I discovered this book so I can share her example of kindness, the reminder to be yourself, and be proud of your strengths. Chloe is put down by a girl, London, for making something homemade for Emma's birthday gift. London has bought a Flower Girl doll from the store which is something Emma really wanted. On the way to the birthday party London accidentally drops the doll and her dog tears up it's clothes. That's when Chloe's kindness shines. Her gift was a dress she had sewn for the doll. You might think she would let London learn her lesson for being so mean but she doesn't. More than all the googly eyes in the world, Chloe wanted to say, Well, good luck with that! But instead she lifted the lid on her box and she pulled out a perfectly purple dress. "She can wear this." It's very hard in life to sometimes show respect and kindness to someone who has been disrespectful and hurtful towards your feelings. Chloe is an awesome example of GOODNESS. I absolutely loved this story and it's been a MEGA HIT with kids. We are ordering it for our school library and of course I'm going to have to get a copy for my daughter. THIS BOOK IS A MUST MUST READ. Kelly DiPucchio is also the author of one of my favorite books The Sandwich Swap. A Link to This Book:

Abby from The Inspired Apple made cute poems for her students while they were studying long vowels. She inspired me to use her idea and c...

“A Very Visual “WHEN” QUESTION NO-PREP Activity for our very Visual Learners.” I created this activity for a student who had great difficulty answering “When” questions. He is a very visual learner, so I decided to present the questions with heavy visuals. He had great success with this approach, and it gave him an awareness of what was being asked of him. I found this to be a great place to start with him. Included are: 7 pages of worksheets, each with 6 when questions and answers presented visually. I included an 8th blank worksheet in case you want to create your own WHEN questions. Preparation: This is a no-prep activity, so just print it and use as a worksheet. Use: This activity is very easy to use. Start with modeling to the child what is expected. Read the question, as in “When do you see a cake with Candles on it? (Point to each word).” Find the answer on the right side, and read it aloud. Draw a line from left side to answer on the right side. Start fading the modeling and have child try it on their own, pointing to each word/icon and drawing the line. After student achieves success with this activity, reduce the cueing, and eventually fade the visuals.

Gross motor activities for preschoolers a must! Getting their little bodies moving gets them active and makes learning easier and more fun for them!

So many kiddos have WH question goals… in some form or another. The ability to answer WH questions is important, in all settings: school, home, in conversation, etc… I knew this, but I always wondered how to teach WH questions without feeling like I was testing the kiddo. I didn’t want to repeat the question […]

"Sh" can be a tricky sound to teach! I have a sweet girl with Down syndrome who has a lot of nasal emission when producing this sound. In fact, she is unable to produce anything sounding like "sh" when she pinches her nose closed. It almost comes out more like /k/. This shows me that 100% of the air comes out of her nose when she normally produces the sound. We are going to start working on producing the sound in isolation without nasal emission. Have you worked on nasal emission before? Let me know if you have any advice! Click here to download the data sheet!

It's Tuesday and the last of you are likely heading back to work today! Don't worry, some of us have been working for an entire month now! I'm continuing the SLP 101 series this week.

First, echolalia, if you aren't familiar with it, is when a student repeats what he or she has heard. This can be immediate echolalia, where he repeats what you just said or what he just heard. It can also be delayed echolalia, when he repeats things heard in the past--this is typically when individuals are repeating scripts of movies, TV shows or even phrases or statements he/she has heard in the past. So that student you have who talks just like Blues Clues is typically using delayed echolalia. Typically these types of echolalia present as chunks of language (they call it the gestalt) that is plopped into the interaction. It may be appropriate or inappropriate for the situation, but it typically involves a string of language, often with the same intonation that occurred when they heard it (e.g, "And now presenting our main feature!"). You can learn more about the functions of immediate echolalia here and delayed echolalia here and I will do a series about echolalia in the future.

So, I work in a district where I am subject to the teacher evaluation scale. This means I have to play by the rules of a Marzano based evaluation system. I could go off in an entirely different direction here...but I won't. I have created some things to try to make what I do fit into that box, but given it a speech spin! Cue, articulation rubric!

Here is my now-famous silly sentences dice game with the "ch" phoneme in the word initial, medial, and final position of words. Click here to download.

Ok, I need to know. How do you keep data? There are just so many different ways! Here is how I keep data. I have done it several ways and this year I finally found a form that I like the best. I have a notebook for each school. In the notebook I keep a data page for each student. My data pages are organized by my speech groups via tabs WITH pockets. Each tab has the time of a group on it. In the pocket of the tab I keep worksheets that I have printed out for homework or to use in therapy. This way I have it right in front of me and I don’t have to get up and search for it. I usually decide what activities I am doing for the week the Friday before (Friday is when I have the most planning time). If I am not using a worksheet I usually write on a sticky note what activity I want to do and put the sticky on the tab. If I don’t write down my ideas I will totally forget by Monday morning. My data sheet has space for the following info: Student name, school, SLP, nine week period, days they are seen, case manager, date, time, attendance, core standard targeted, area that is targeted, skill/activity completed, a graph to mark data, percentage and if homework was given or received. It looks like this: And you can get it here. I know that the cool, new way to keep data is electronically or through an app if you have an iPad. But here is my problem. I have the data tracker app on my iPad. And I like it. It works great if I am using my good ole artic cards. But when I use another app with my kids I cannot count my data on data tracker app. Does this make sense? With most of my artic apps (for example) I can e-mail the data to myself. But then I have to input that data into my data tracker app. This takes up more time than if I had just used old fashion paper and pen to track data. At least that way I only do it once. I know I can use paper and pen when I am using my iPad to target a goal and my record data on the iPad if I am using ‘real’ materials but it drives me nuts to not have all my data in one place. Anybody out there hear me? Am I making any sense? And can you PLEASE help me? How do you do it?

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Hope you had a fun summer! It's time to get back into the swing of things. I have several children on my caseload with a cleft palate in ...

Here is an articulation worksheet for beginning to work on the "ch" sound in isolation and in syllables. This is a difficult sound for kids with low muscle tone as well as those with cleft palates. Click here to download!

A while back I saw the idea for using checkers for articulation practice over at the Speech Time Fun blog. When I saw this giant checker board for a buck at a garage sale I

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In the chart below, each solid bar indicates when children generally MASTER the specified sounds (mastery level is 90%). This chart depicts a range of development and should only be used as a general guide. Here are some tips to help you work with your child at home! I posted the sounds that most of my speech kiddos are working on right now. Use a mirror if your child has difficulty producing the sound correctly. Additional verbal cues I like to use: /s,z/ - make sure the tiger stays in the cage! Don't let the tongue stick outside, keep it behind the front teeth. /th/ - bite your tongue with your teeth- make sure your tongue sticks out. Don't bite your lip though! /sh/ - almost like the /s/ sound, but your tongue should be back a little farther. Round your lips like a fish! /k, g/ - hold your tongue tip down so only the back of your tongue goes up for this sound. /l/ - make sure your tongue gets up to "the spot" behind your top front teeth! SMILE! Don't round your lips. /f/ - bite your lip with your top teeth and blow air out. /ch/ - train sound. Almost like /sh/ and /t/ sounds combined, make sure there is a burst of air. /r/ - get your tongue: up, back, tight. It is almost where we say /k, g/. If its hard, try slow syllables like "greee".