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Engage your teletherapy students with these interactive activities. From Boom Cards to PDF annotation, keep your virtual speech therapy sessions focused and fun!
Story Retell Goal Ideas Read more about my goals here. Teaching Story Retell Before working on story retell skills, your learners should have foundational skills in Sequencing, WH Questions, and Story Elements. Once they do, working on story retell is a great way to practice all of those skills in one activity! If your learner […]
UPDATED - October 6, 2019 Miami-Dade County Public Schools' website, Prekindergarten . . . the Right Beginning, has visual supports for everything! Find numerous literacy activities, behavioral charts, and so much more. This is one of my most popular posts and this morning I noticed the links no longer working. I little checking and I found their new site. Many printables -no Boardmaker software needed. There are communication boards and /or overlays to use with a large variety of toys found in early childhood classrooms, as well as many learning activities. The list below is a small representation of the items that you will find on this wonderful site. First / Then charts in a variety of styles and sizes. Social Stories Behavioral symbols and charts Phonological Awareness Interactive Storybooks Choice Boards Songs and stories Boards to use at home Nursery rhymes and popular children's stories Recipes Schedules and routines Diana © 2012 The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2011 by Mayer-Johnson LLC. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Used with permission. Boardmaker® is a trademark of Mayer-Johnson LLC.
In an earlier post, I talked about my 5 favorite FREE resources for teletherapy. But today I wanted to dive in a little more and talk about some of my favorite digital open-ended reinforcers (still…
I have always been open to new therapy techniques that could spark student growth. However, it wasn't till recently that I learned about teletherapy.
Get set for back to school in teletherapy with these digital activities! Learn about fun and interactive games and activities to get students warmed up in virtual speech therapy sessions.
Give me an /r/ any day. Gimme me any old artic error. It's only the lateral productions that make me shake in my boots! I'll admit it, I'm a big ole chicken when it comes to lateral
These are my must-have speech therapy materials "schools edition!" I'll share my professional philosophy so you can understand my suggestions.
Have you ever thought about using wordless videos in your speech therapy lessons? It increases engagement! Start with these videos...
Working on main idea isn't just a reading skill, but a very important language skill as well. If you're overwhelmed or unsure about where to start when teaching main idea in your speech classroom, this blog post was written for you! I've also included my free resources to help you save time and teach main idea better!
Welcome! If you are reading this and have been searching for teletherapy tutorials, ideas, and resources, you have come to the right place!! This post was co-authored by SLP, Holly Rosensweig of Spiffy Speech and SLP, Lucy Stone of The Speech Express . While we wrote this with SLPs in mind, many
How school-based SLPs can utilitize Bitmoji interactive classrooms created in Google Slides
Apps are great for quick, on-the-fly therapy activities and save time and money on printing - but free speech therapy apps are even better!
Enhance your teletherapy sessions with split-screen activities! Learn how to seamlessly combine resources and engage students using multiple digital activities at the same time.
Tackle fluency therapy distance learning with these stuttering teletherapy ideas. Fluency therapy is often difficult on its own but these ideas can help.
Are you wondering how to begin telehealth services? All the resources you need to get started are in the ultimate guide to telehealth for therapists.
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
CFY-SLP: the Survival Guide for Articulation You've finished grad school (or are just about to finish grad school) in Speech- Language Pathology. CONGRATS! Perhaps you've just started your new position, and you're pumped to be able to sign that CFY-SLP at the end of your name. You should be proud, because this is a huge
Need a new way to keep track of your speechy therapy data? Check out this post with tips to set up your own data system on Google Forms!
Engage your teletherapy students with these interactive activities. From Boom Cards to PDF annotation, keep your virtual speech therapy sessions focused and fun!
When I was just starting out, I wish there was a cheat sheet to amazing resources. This is how I would spend $100 on TPT.
Today I wanted to share some of my favorite resources for teletherapy. These are perfect for keeping young children engaged! When we made the switch to teletherapy back in March, I had to completel…
What can be done in speech therapy to help a toddler with autism that isn't talking yet? Carrie shares some great therapy ideas in this helpful video
I hope you enjoy this fun 10 slide freebie. It is an auditory processing, sequencing, and memory activity where students act as customers, servers, cooks, and supervisors in a pizza shop. The customer orders from a menu and the server must recall the order and express it to the cook. The cook must recall the order and assemble the pizza. The supervisor provides cues as needed. PDF file in color You may also like: Language Logic S'more Language Thanks for visiting my store and providing feedback. Jen
Whether you are a monolingual SLP, bilingual SLP, or a parent, these websites will sure be handy for any speech therapy session, tele-therapy session, or for in-home speech therapy practice. I have complied a list of my favorite FREE websites to use for speech therapy. Check them out!
Being able to both follow and give directions is an important skill in school, and in life. Kids with language disorders often have trouble with processing the directions we give them, or with being able to formulate accurate directions or descriptions so that another person can complete the task or find the object. This is ... Read More about Susan Berkowitz’s Free Mystery Picture Hunt Game for Following and Giving Directions
Today I’m starting a brand new series right here on the blog…because…I think we could ALL benefit. It’s all about the area of reading comprehension and, as educators, we are often really good at providing lots of practice in this area, but, in honesty, it’s a really difficult area to teach. What often happens is […]
Learn why having the ability to screen-share and grant mouse control opens up tons of possibility for SLPs providing teletherapy.
Speech therapy inferencing: how and why we work on inferences and predictions, plus 100 real photo inferencing picture scenes!
Feeling overwhelmed or a little stressed about becoming a distance teaching SLP? Then check out this list of free speech therapy digital materials...
A list of the essential speech therapy materials needed for any SLP or SLPA. Plus, our very best free materials that you can download now!
Using teletherapy for early intervention can be an intimidating task. I can help you get started and feel confident in your practice!
Helping develop your child's speech through play. We're always told not to compare children. They're all different and all do things in their own way, in their own time. In fact, a favourite quote of mine is, "Not all children are ready to learn the same thing at the same time in the same way." - Kathy Walker However, even knowing and understanding all of this, when my son did not start to communicate verbally in a similar way to how his older sister had, I admit that I felt quite concerned. I'd done everything the same. He'd been read to since birth (a lot), talked to and chatted with constantly. We made sounds, did rhymes, sung songs and played together. But, unlike his sister, he did not choose to naturally communicate verbally and would refuse to mimic sounds or try new words. His non-verbal communication was spot on and he was always able to get across what he wanted (which was encouraging) but oral language was not something that came easily to him. My child is showing a delay in their speech development. Where do I start? Being a teacher, I was aware that early intervention is very important when it comes to children and learning difficulties, so despite all the advice I was getting from people to, "Just wait, it'll happen," I needed to do something about it myself and ensure that I was giving him the best start that I could. My son was about 19-20 months old when I first sought out external advice. Many people will say that it's too early to really start getting concerned before 2 years old, but you know your own child better than anyone. If you're concerned for any reason, it's better to seek out assistance than possibly stressing out unnecessarily for months and months. When concerned about your child's speech development the first people to speak to are your child's doctor and maternal health nurse. Through them, they can organise and refer you for any specialists and tests. We started by getting an assessment of where his development was at, as well as organising for a hearing test. This is usually a good starting point. From there, doctors and professionals are able to see if there are any particular issues that might be delaying speech and start to rule things out. As his hearing was fine, the next step for us was being referred to a Speech Pathologist. Many speech pathologists are private practice here in Australia and can be quite pricey if your child needs regular sessions. There are ways to get into government subsidised classes so talk to your GP or Maternal Health Nurse about how and where you can sign up for them. There is often a waiting list though and the spots will often go to children in higher need (such as older children). We went to a few sessions with a private Speech Pathologist and after observing, listening and discussing the best ways to help my son develop his oral language, I was confident that I could take over and continue to help him myself at home without the added cost of a weekly therapy bill. 10 tips to help your child develop their speech through play at home It was clear from the speech pathology sessions I attended, that my son was on the verge of talking but that helping him form those words was going to take a bit more of a concentrated effort than his older sister required. Having the speech pathologist confirm my original beliefs that learning through play was always going to be the best way was encouraging, and gaining the understanding of how I could go about better approaching this play time with him, in order to best help develop his speech, was also something of great value. The main points that I learnt about trying to encourage speech development through play are: 1) For your child to develop their speech, they have to practice. It can be tricky getting reluctant speakers to talk, so engaging them in meaningful play and activities where they are naturally encouraged to participate in talking, is essential. 2) One-on-one play time is very important. Make regular times (at least once daily for a minimum of 10-15 minutes) to sit down with your child, without other distractions and engage with them. (This can be tricky with other siblings around but it's important that they have this uninterrupted time with you) 3) Look at your child's interests and try to engage them with these interests. Eg. If they are really into animals, plan your one-on-one play times to involve playing with animals. If they are always very active and struggle to sit still, try to play together in a way that allows them to move whilst still encouraging them to talk. 4) When speaking to your child during these one-on-one play times, use clear, short sentences that are directly related to the play. Eg. While playing with your animals, move the cow and say "the COW says MOO. mooooo" When the cow is knocked over, "Oops, the COW FELL DOWN." When you jump the cow over a fence, "the COW JUMPED OVER the FENCE." You don't have to speak like this to your child all the time, just during your one-on-one play times. Focus the language on useful words that will help your child communicate better. Prepositions such as, "on, in, out, off, up" etc. verbs such as "drink, eat, jump, play, read." and nouns, eg. "Mum, Dad, hand, foot, cup" etc. 5) Give your child a chance to respond. Often it will take children longer to process your question or what is being spoken about and for them to think of an appropriate response and say it. It's easy for adults and other children to jump in with the answer after a couple of seconds when it seems as though the child is not going to respond, but you need to allow a good 10 seconds or more for them to attempt to answer verbally. 6) Find new and engaging ways to play with them that allow you opportunities to practice other words. Eg. Blowing bubbles with them will allow you to practice the language that will come naturally with that activity, such as, "more," "bubbles," and "blow." Playing with cars can encourage language such as, "go," "stop," "drive," "brrrrrroooom," and "beep beep." (Here are 10 ideas you could try) 7) If your child has particular sounds that they are struggling with, eg. saying "wewy" instead of "very," try and find ways to play that will naturally include that language. Eg. Build a tower together. A tower that is VERY, VERY tall! Use that time to say and practice the language as much as possible. 8) Repeat what your child says, clearly and correctly so that they can hear how it should sound and reinforce the language that goes with the action. Eg. If your child indicates you to blow more bubbles by saying, "mor," you can say, "More. More bubbles?" and wait for their response. Trying to engage them in conversation and take it further is important. Your child might now nod, or say "yes," or say "more" again. You could then say, "Yes, yes you can have more bubbles." 9) Praise your child for their efforts. Positive reinforcement can work wonders on children so be sure to acknowledge their efforts at communicating verbally and encourage them to continue. 10) Be patient. Try to remember the message at the top of this post, that all children learn at their own pace. Your child's development may seem slower than others but so long as it's improving, you should get there. Who knows, it may suddenly click for them and you won't be able to stop them talking. Just remember to give them time and not to expect things to suddenly change in an instant. Your child might be reluctant to your one-on-one play times at first or not be able to stay focused for a very long period of time, but so long as you keep persisting with it, you should see results. Please remember that if you are feeling concerned at all about your child's development, if their development stalls or especially if their development starts going backwards, you should seek out advice from experts in these areas. Some children will require or greatly benefit from a joint effort from a specialist and parents so it's important that any concerns you have are addressed and you know the best way to go about it with your child. For practical activity ideas, along with the key vocabulary that you might focus on with each activity, see our 10 activities for helping develop speech post. For more info and ideas on helping your child develop their language through play, check out these great sites: Playing with Words 365 Two Daloo Play to Talk Trust Me I'm a Mom Happy playing, Debs :) Look where else we are. Are you following along? :)
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!
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.
Keep teletherapy fresh with these FREE speech therapy websites, resources, games, and materials.
