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
[Source: Natalie Snyders Speech-Language Pathologist] 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 thing that I think it is important to note that I’m not an SLP […]
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
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
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
I don't know about you, but I seem to have a LOT of /r/ students this year! As it came time for parent teacher conferences and third quarter progress reports, I knew I needed to
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
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
Manage your middle schoolers during speech therapy with my 10 best strategies for behavior management to encourage and motivate!
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
Apparently, I'm not the only SLP who struggles with the /r/ sound! In my last "Quick Articulation Tip," I shared how I started using dental floss picks to help students find the appropriate tongue placement for the
Fluency (or stuttering) therapy is an area that many SLPs feel under-prepared to serve. While you may have had an excellent professor on the subject in grad school, it tends to be a lower incidence
I have so much to report since the last time I updated Mrs. Ludwig's Speech Room! I had fully intended on updating day-by-day at the 2012 ASHA Convention, but my time there was SO busy & time got away! Hello, Atlanta! (this was about all of the city I actually saw) First off, it was AMAZING! So much great information. Here's a brief rundown on of my highlights: The opening speaker was Maya Angelou - pretty amazing! The best shot I could get: "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya A. There were so many great oral seminars that I often had to make tough choices about which one to actually attend! I gathered some great resources, tips & tricks. I'll post the best share-able resources here. The iPads at convention were EVERYWHERE! You know you're at a convention with SLPs, when.... :) And several sessions were dedicated to iPad use in therapy. A Few iPad Resources The Opposites: Cost: FREE This one is pretty cool and I find myself even wanting to play! It's a little like old-school Tetris. Words float up and once you see an opposite pair, you click on the pair of words and they disappear. If the words pile up, you lose! There are 10 different levels. Harder levels = harder words. Level 1 (left) has easier opposites than Level 3 (right). At the end of each level is a bonus round where you have 20 seconds to click all the opposites. I like this one! The next iPad app is called Toontastic: This app creates an animated comic strip with a beginning, middle, and end. It's a neat for storytelling and generating a narrative. Each box is a part of the animated comic strip: Setup, Conflict, Challenge, Climax, Resolution. You can delete or add any of the parts of the story if they don't work for your narrative. When you click on the first box "Setup", you get to pick your Setting. ....or draw your own! One feature I wish it had is the option of adding your own photo. But it doesn't, so I'll deal. :) Then you pick your characters. Once they're all in place, you're ready to record your animation and narrative for the "Setting" part of your story. You record your story while moving your characters around. When you're finished, you can play your audio recording back along with the character movement that was added during your recording. Once you complete the steps described above for each box (mine are still empty), you can play your entire comic strip story complete with animation and audio. Pretty neat.....and the best part.....it's FREE! A few highlights from the Oral Seminars For my younger LI/SI kids this session was really great: Concomitant Speech & Language Impairment: Effect Practice for Optimal Outcomes. Presenters Ann Tyler & Gail Gillon Lots of my LI/SI kids struggle with literacy. This session offered lots of cool evidence-based resources that merge the research with practice. Go see for yourself!! Gail Gillon Phonological Awareness Resources - all free! My Read It Again - awesome free stuff for language and literacy! Explicit lesson plans for specific books Materials to print: Progress Monitoring Sheets And for my upper elementary & middle school kids, this one was useful: SLPs Enhancing Students' Language Skills in STEM Disciplines. Presenters: Janet Proly, Karen Davis, Melissa Malani, and Kimberly Murza The STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) disciplines are becoming a big focus in the academic world. For LI kids, math and science texts can be difficult to break down and are each written in their own language The presenters gave a handout for breaking down academic text. Here were their Top 10 Questions to ask for disciplinary texts: ....and that is a very, very brief look at my time in Atlanta, but I hope those resources/links are useful! Now that I'm back very professionally-developed and energized with lots of new ideas, I've gotten back to work on some of my therapy activities for the holidays! Here's a preview of my Holiday Packet I'm working on: Coming soon to a blog & TPT store near you! :) And since it's almost Thanksgiving, one more turkey for you! When thinking what she was thankful for, a cute kindergartner pulled out a Fruit Rollup from her pocket and copied the letters exactly (even the O!, we'll work on the S...). Enjoy your holiday, thanks for checking in, and have a very very happy Thanksgiving!! ~Mrs. Ludwig
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
I've been struggling to find things to finish out the school year in Middle School. My middle schoolers are all severely delayed. Most are reading at mid-elementary school level and they can't keep up with
My kids and I all love it when we find a new game to play, so today, I bring you my review of Blue and Orange Games - Gigamon and Top That.
A school based SLP navigating the muddy waters of low budgets, high numbers and a wide variety of student needs. These are some of my therapy ideas, tricks, tips and activities!
1. Get Picky About R with R Minimal Pairs When my student has their vocalic R down pretty well, but sometimes their “shirts” still sound a little like “shorts,” then I love to pull out this R Minimal Pairs activity to help them clean up the small differences between the vocalic R sounds. It comes...
[Source: CanChild via Your Therapy Source] CanChild has published another excellent resource which is entitled Keeping Current In Sleep Issues Among Children with Cerebral Palsy. Here are some highlights: Studies show that rates of sleep disturbances in children with cerebral palsy are actually quite similar to the general population and affect about one third of […]