Are you looking for some great podcasts for speech-language pathologists? The number one question people ask me is for podcast recommendations. Since I’m a daily podcast listener (while working out, cleaning, commuting), I’ve got a few favorites. Of course, I couldn’t leave out our own podcast - SLP
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These are my must-have speech therapy materials "schools edition!" I'll share my professional philosophy so you can understand my suggestions.
I love to share materials and ideas with my fellow therapists. I hope that you will enjoy these FREEBIES. This Game Companion can be used with commercial Rabbit Games or by itself. The FREEBIE targets initial and final K sounds. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FREEBIE Do you like to get 100 articulation trials? Download this FREEBIE. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS SPRING 100 ARTICULATION TRIALS A FREEBIE that targets Vocabulary skills related to FRUIT. Click here to download free fruit vocabulary cards and a progress monitoring sheet. Print these Free Apraxia Game Companions. Practice CV, VC, CVCV, and CVC word structures as you play this game. Engage your students with a FREE QR code articulation game. Practice regular and irregular past tense verbs as you make these adorable gumball machines.
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Being an SLP in the days of social media can be a lifesaver. You can get therapy ideas, follow accounts in a certain area (for example AAC) where you’d like to grow, build relationships with other SLPs and find resources (everything from books to read to classes to take) to build your skills. There
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Looking for a cheap, easy to use therapy material? How about paper bags? I love using paper bags for a variety of activities. Here are some simple ways I have incorporated paper bags into my therapy sessions. 1. Puppets My students love to use puppets to "eat" their articulation cards or other target cards. They also love to use them to tell stories. Making puppets from paper bags is a great, inexpensive way to engage your students in a variety of activities! You can easily make a puppet to match any book or story that you are using. Be creative- your kids will love it! I made these monster puppets with my son this week. They were so easy to make! We used a little paint, glue, and card stock with our paper bags. I found the idea for these cute monsters from this pin: Paper Bag Monster Puppets 2. Describe It To Me This activity is also super easy. I throw a bunch of items into a bag. My students reach in and grab something (no peeking!) to describe. The students remove the object and then describe it using a variety of descriptors. This is a great way to incorporate your Expanding Expression Tool (EET) with describing real objects. Sometimes I will even get really small, cheap objects that the students can keep if they give me a description using all of the beads on the EET. 3. What is in the bag? This is a great activity to work on a student's deductive reasoning skills. I put an object into the bag (students do not see- again, no peeking). Students need to ask questions about my object. This is similar to the game Headbanz. 4. Categories Place pictures of categories on the bag and collect items or pictures to place in each category. I used pictures from my Category Sorting activity. I like to put a piece of Velcro on each bag so that I can interchange the categories without having to get a new bag each time. 5. Collect in a bag Put any kind of card into the bag. My students love to decorate a bag and then collect their cards. 6. Paper bag books You can use two paper bags to make a book that will have two pockets. Simply fold two bags in half and then put the two openings touching each other to make two pockets for a book. Staple together, and done! You have a paper bag book that you can use to target a variety of goals. I used this one to put some of my new sequencing cards in for a student to take home. I have also made these Articulation Paper Bag Books. These are so fun to make with students and send home! Here is a link to a freebie that contains blank frames to use on your paper bags, as well as labels for What is in the bag? and Describe It To Me. Have fun using your paper bags!
Can I make a confession? One of my least favorite things to work on in therapy is the dreaded /r/ sound! It's so hard to demonstrate to students what exactly you want them to do
Is it hard to keep your students engaged while they practice? I have found that by using games and activities my students enjoy therapist directed drill play. It can be a lot of fun and the therapist can obtain 100 trials of the targeted sound or process. I have found that their are so many commercial games and activities available that easily lend themselves to therapist directed drill play. For all of these games and activities I like to select 3-5 pictures that will be targeted during the session. The number I select depends on how often the student needs to engage in play and stay motivated. Yeti In My Spaghetti : Every time my students practice their pictures I give them a piece of spaghetti to place over the bowl. When the game is assembled we play the game. Kerplunk: As my students practice they put a stick through the tube. When all the sticks are in we practice the pictures as we add the marbles to the tube. When it is all ready we have fun playing the game. Mr Potato Head: I set up a variety of parts that the student can select. We practice the pictures and them add a part to the potato. After a few potatoes are assembled we play with them. 100 Trial sheets: I like to use crayons, markers and stamps with 100 trials sheets. The child marks a picture after each production. This freebie includes six Spring 100 trials articulation sheets and 2 data collections sheet. The data collection sheets can be used with any of these activities. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FREEBIE Progress monitor your entire group easily Legos: I like to have my students practice their pictures and then I give them 2-3 legos to put together. They build and practice at the same time. Ned's Head: I put multiple copies of the students pictures inside the head. I place a sticker on one of the cards. We take turns pulling a card out of Ned's Head. The student who finds the card with the sticker shouts "I win!" This game is quick and can be played multiple times. Cariboo: I cover the original cards with Holiday or a theme. After each child practices their targeted words they open one box. It they find the ball they get to put it in the treasure chest. We play until the treasure box opens. Chipper Chat: Practice the pictures and them put a chip on the card. When the card is full use the magic wand to clean up the card. Take time to play with the chips and magnets at the end. Jenga: The students practice their pictures and then place a Jenga block on the tower. When the tower is built we play the game. Fishing game: I like to have my students say their words and them put a fish in the "pond". When the game is complete we play it. I have also created a game companion that can also be used. The students practice again as they place them in the fishing net. Articulation Game Companion Connect Four: Each time a student puts a chip in the frame they say their pictures. We play until their is a winner. Using these games in therapist directed drill play is a fun and easy way to get your students to practice 100 articulation targets in a therapy session. If you are struggling to keep your students engaged think about trying some of these games. I hope your students enjoy them as much as my students do. Click here to follow my tpt store, Speech Gems. An InLinkz Link-up Sign up for my newsletter below Subscribe to get our latest content by email. Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. Email Address Subscribe We won't send you spam. Unsubscribe at any time. Powered by ConvertKit
BOOM CARDSMy students love how engaging Boom Cards can be! Using the Zoom platform, I can share my screen, pull up a Boom Card resource and hand over
Here is another worksheet addressing the language concept of "not." This is a difficult concept to target, which is why I have made so many materials to work on it! Lots of repetitive practice is needed. You could also work on this using a set of real life objects (e.g., "Give me everything that is NOT blue. Give me all of the dolls that are NOT boys"). Click here to download! Please consider donating a dollar or two if you want to see more SLP materials!
If your child struggles with articulation, fluency, voice regulation, understanding and expressing himself through language, or nonverbal autism, these speech therapy activities are a great place to start!
Over the years we have been working with my son on his articulation delay. For our family, this is one of our most frustrating challenges because we don't have any answers as to why he
Additional activities to enrich your child's speech and language learning!
Here are a list of free speech therapy r sound activities for working on the articulation sound /r/. Plus grab our free 17 paged PDF!
I originally wrote this post on April 18, 2011. My how time flies! I have often felt baffled as to why kids cannot produce /k/ when developmentally we make posterior sounds before anterior. Think about it, a baby’s first sounds are goo-goo and ga-ga, so isn’t /k/ just a naturally developing response? It makes me go, ... Read more
Receptive language is the comprehension of language input. Learn all about it, plus X easy activities to improve receptive language delays!
Echolalia in autism can be difficult. Find out about the types of echolalia and get practical tips to help your students with autism. Be sure to check out the links to free, important information and research to get therapy started on the right track!
This week I’ve fielded the same question from a few families and therapists who have emailed me about kids who do not initiate. Remember that initiating means that a child takes the lead in an interaction or conversation. Initiating is important for language development because none of us can depend on other people to read our…
If you're on pinterest you've likely seen the french fry sight words or french fry math games popping up everywhere. I decided to steal borrow this fun idea. I of course gave it a speech
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.
Need a little pick-me-up with some SLP Humor? I wanted to give you a fun break from your crazy SLP Life and share some of my Memes. I a...
Need a little pick-me-up with some SLP Humor? I wanted to give you a fun break from your crazy SLP Life and share some of my Memes. I a...
Pragmatic language is one of the five domains of language. This article discusses pragmatic language, milestones, and things to consider.
I remember as a new SLP, feeding therapy scared me. It felt way out of my wheelhouse because I (Allyssa) was much more used to speech and language therapy. However, with some shadowing of other SLPs, a few good trainings and CEUs, and infinite help from Janae (the other half of Red Rose Speechies),
Here is a list of my favorite games to use in speech therapy. All have been used by me, an SLP, and my students have loved them all!
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Next up in my '10 ways to play' series is the super fun wind up toy. I have a handy dandy box of wind up toys that are worth their weight in gold. Wind up toys
Someone is learning and making progress! Meredith of Peachie Speechie and I (Mandi of Panda Speech) have teamed up to talk about how we play games in speech! It is a commonly known fact that SLPs use board games in therapy sessions to engage their students. It is definitely not as easy as it sounds! We have to incorporate other materials relevant to each of the student’s objectives in between turns, not to mention cueing and modeling social skills. Let me say this, it is NOT all fun and game
Mini objects make a great speech therapy resource. Eight different ways to use Mini Objects for Speech and Language Therapy.
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
SLP’s working in the school setting can easily be spread thin. If an SLP isn’t monitoring what he/she is committing to or looking at their current work load situation, things can go from manageable to chaotic in a blink of an eye. We must say no at work when we can’t do something! I compiled […]
Blank comics are engaging for both younger and older students and allows for targeting many skills. Access a board of free blank comics!
Using Simon’s Cat videos in speech therapy can help plan therapy for mixed groups and cut lesson planning time in half!
