If you follow me on Instagram, you might know that I’ve been giving my speech room a makeover. It was bad, y’all. It needed purging and re-organizing like nobody’s business. I am happy to report that
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A look at how I transformed this Rainbow Cart into a Type B SLP's storage dream. Includes links to other products I use to help me stay organized for therapy.
This is a blog about a speech therapy room tour. It contains materials for speech students and simple items in the speech room.
Speech Therapy labels to organize all your materials and printables by season, month, or theme in your storage area or Speech room.
When it comes to speech room organization, you probably have a need for lots of tools. This tools roundup post lists all of my favorites for your use!
Here is a list of must have SLP supplies you should have on hand to help you stay organized and plan speech therapy sessions.
Easy ideas to organize all your speech therapy materials in 4x6 phto storage boxes. Tricks and solutions for articulation, mini objects and more!
Do you need to work on your organizing skills in your speech room? This blog post is all about how I organized my tools and materials in my speech therapy room! As SLPs, we can accumulate a lot of stuff over the years, so speech room organization is a must in order to keep our little rooms from getting too crazy.
I have been working exclusively with preschool students for a little over five months now. I currently have a caseload of 57 preschool students age 3-5 with a variety of speech and language disorders. The students are brought in to me by their parents at an Early Childhood Center. I see a few students individually, but the majority are seen in small groups of 2-4 (I only have one group of 4 right now). I am lucky enough to have a wonderful paraprofessional helping out in my room too! With that many students and smallish groups, you can imagine that my scheduling is pretty tight. You would be right! About 50% of my students are seen in hour long groups, and the other 50% are seen in half hour chunks. I try to group my students as closely as I can with age and goals, but with parents schedules and preschool schedules to work around, the groups can get a bit mixed. Luckily, I have found a way to structure my room so that I can work on a variety of skills in any group. I am super lucky to have a full size classroom as my work space, and I have clearly defined it to move through our sessions. When students arrive, they are able to play in my toy area for about 5-10 minutes (depending on length of their session). I am able to engage with them while we wait for anyone who is running late. It is so fun to see all of the language opportunities during these play times! I've been using a digital timer to warn students that play time is almost finished, and that has been working great. Once they get used to the warning and then the timer going off, transitions are easy for most. I do have some visual schedules too in case I have a student who isn't so keen on the auditory warnings. After play, we usually go over to the smart board for some movement and songs. I have a couple of different boards for this, and right now we are using a board that contains different winter songs that I have found. The kids love getting to choose the song from my selections. The songs help get some wiggles out before we move on to more seated activities. Some of my favorites are on the Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel, Dr. Jean, The Learning Station, and Bounce Patrol. After our one or two songs, we move over to the book area. My students love to sit in these mini seats and pick their color. Amazingly, I have very few fights over the color chair. The paraprofessional in my room always copies the front cover of the book of the week so that we can display it a couple of different ways. We put one copy on the easel in the book area, and one copy on the bulletin board in our room. My students love looking at the board and talking about their favorite books that we have read. The board is really filling up! Next, we move over to my work table. Who am I kidding, the students usually run (preschoolers don't walk) over so they can get their work done and play some more! Plus, they love that we usually have some sort of fun activity or game to go along with their goal work. I usually try to have a game or activity that allows me to focus on a variety of goals. These are usually pretty open ended games/activities such as Pop the Pig, using bingo chips, fishing games, and really any other open ended game/activity that doesn't require specific answers. I love that I can target both articulation/phonological processes and language skills during the same activity. After our work is done, we usually try to play for another 5 minutes, and at this point I may go out and talk to parents while the paraprofessional plays with the students. I may give parents things to practice at home or just update them on what we did for the day. This is how I have organized my longer sessions. For my shorter half hour sessions, the students are typically younger language students, and we spend more time on play. I also skip the book with some of my half hour articulation students. I have to say that I have been loving how this has been working out, and I have been loving working with preschoolers! They definitely keep me on my toes!
A DIY for SLPs! Make this Speech Therapy Articulation Cards Toolbox. A fun and easy way to improve your functional room decor!
Are you looking for an easy book organization method for your speech therapy room? I'm sharing four tips in this blog post, so click here to read more!
Speech Therapy labels to organize all your materials and printables by season, month, or theme in your storage area or Speech room.
Looking for help to organize that speech room? I share all of my favorite tools - seven of them! - that help keep me organized in this post. Check them out!
My all-time favorite SLP organization tips for speech therapy materials in file folder bins, plus FREE downloadable, editable labels!
Struggling to keep your speech room organized? Read about this SLP's favorite speech room organization tips and tricks.
Last week, I posted about how I “tidied” my speech room using category strategies. Check it out HERE . Once you’ve whittled down your materials to your favorite or most effective therapy tools, it’s time to organize your materials so you can find them quickly. I’ve tried a ton of organizational materials over the years, …
This is a blog about a speech therapy room tour. It contains materials for speech students and simple items in the speech room.
Inside my monthly boxes, I have everything that is seasonal...crafts, TPT products, worksheets, etc. in hanging file folders. I hope to organize these further as I get to each month, but who knows #typeBforever
Learn all the best tips for how to organize speech therapy materials by themes, so you know where your stuff is when you need it!
My all-time favorite SLP organization tips for speech therapy materials in file folder bins, plus FREE downloadable, editable labels!
The ultimate Amazon guide for speech therapy and special education – these lists are consonantly updated! Includes Amazon tips and tricks!
Every year when I go shopping right after Christmas, it's always the same thing....stores like Walmart and Target pack the shelves with organizational totes and containers. I thought it was just ME, but apparently it's
Speech Therapy labels to organize all your materials and printables by season, month, or theme in your storage area or Speech room.
This is a blog with a back to school checklist for SLPs. It's an easy read with helpful tips for back to school caseload management.
Organization and storage of materials is must for speech therapists! Here are some of my favorite storage bins and the different ways I use them in therapy!
How I organize my Teachers Pay Teachers Materials for Speech Therapy. Using Iris Scrapbook boxes, my TpT materials are organized and easy to find making planning a snap.
A comprehensive organization label system and digital / printable theme planner created to help make organizing your speech therapy room, classroom, or playroom easy. This organization unit includes 130+ labels for months, seasons, holidays, common themes, supplies, toys, and speech therapy activities. Labels have been created to help brighten your speech room up with crisp fonts and graphics. All labels come in color, black/white, and 9 different size options PLUS editable option! A digital SLP or teacher planner (can also be printable) has also been included to help make planning themed speech therapy easier and to keep track of materials inventory. There are printable templates for all themes included, plus editable options. Since there are 9 size variations for the printable labels, you are able to use any type of storage system! The best places for storage materials are Amazon, Walmart, Target, Dollar Store, and Container Store. **UPDATED WITH SQUARE SHAPE LABELS TO FIT IN TARGET DOLLAR SPOT ADHESIVE LABELS!** Labels included: 12 Months: Jan - Dec 4 Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall 15 Holidays: Valentine's Day, St. Patricks Day, Easter, Back to School, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, Earth Day, 100th day, MLK Jr. Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Mardi Gras, Cinco de Mayo 25 Toys & Activities: Quiet Boxes, Puzzle Bags, Building Blocks, Costumes, Pretend Food, Stuffed Animals, Lacing Toys, Play Tools, Alphabet Blocks, Pretend Play, Wooden Train Set, Plastic Dinosaurs, Horses and Unicorns, Plastic Animals, Shape Blocks, Card Games, Hashtag Blocks, Play Vehicles, Dolls & Figurines, Travel Size Games, Ball Poppers, Wind Up Toys, Inflatable Toys, Small Manipulatives, Mini Objects 20 Supplies and Materials: Play-doh Supplies, Play-doh Tools, Sensory Fidgets, Cleaning Supplies, Hand Sanitizer, Tissue Boxes, Prep Materials, Paint Daubers, Painting Supplies, Stickers, Coloring Supplies, Office Supplies, Colored Paper, Craft Supplies, Mini Erasers, Fine Motor Supplies, Sensory Bin Materials, Dollar Spot Items, Oral Motor Tools, File Folder Activities 18 Speech Therapy & Subjects: Articulation Flashcards ( x2 ), Articulation Workbooks ( x2 ), Language: Expressive & Receptive ( x2 ), Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Speech Therapy Supplies, Speech Therapy Materials, Fluency Materials ( x2 ), Educational Activities, Educational Workbooks, Educational Flashcards, No Prep Resources, Game Companions, Book Companions 32 Themes: tacos, donuts, pizza, unicorns, dental, weather, pets, community helpers, dinosaurs, ocean, sports, bugs, apples, zoo animals, space, fairy tales, camping, transportation, pirates, cowboy, farm, food, gardening, mermaid, shark, superhero, patriotic, all about me, colors, bats, forest, winter animals 9 Different Sizes that will work with a variety of plastic containers: 3.25 x 3.25 (fits Target Dollar Spot square labels) 9.5in x 7.25in 9in x 3.5in 5in x 4in 4.25in x 3.25in 3in x 1.25in 4in x 1.5in 2.75in x 2.25in 3.25in x 2.5in **This is a compressed .zip file. Please contact [email protected] with any questions before purchasing. Check out this resource in action on Instagram @texasspeechmom under highlight "organization". Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook | Website
School SLPs can set-up articulation speech folders to help them stay organized with planning out a treatment program for articulation therapy.
Today, I would like to give you a peek into my speech-language therapy room at my K-6 elementary school. If you know me at all, you know I love decorating! My philosophy is that I
Would you like some ideas for setting up your speech room? Take a sneak peak inside my speech therapy room setup! A great speech room setup is the key to feeling a little more calm and organized during a chaotic day. It will help ensure your speech therapy sessions run smoothly. When you have a
Looking for help to organize that speech room? I share all of my favorite tools - seven of them! - that help keep me organized in this post. Check them out!
Check out easy ways to make your speech therapy room decor interactive with tap lights! Illuminate your room with a wide range of learning activities.
Here is a list of must have SLP supplies you should have on hand to help you stay organized and plan speech therapy sessions.
In addition to hand sanitizer and Lysol wipes, make these changes to minimize your students' exposure to viruses and safeguard your speech therapy materials
A look at how I transformed this Rainbow Cart into a Type B SLP's storage dream. Includes links to other products I use to help me stay organized for therapy.
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
So, now you have found your new room at your new school. It may look like this: Ok, so maybe you won't have 20 boxes of items sitting around, but you may have 20 boxes of things to go through in your cupboards! Depending on who was in your room before you, there may be a treasure trove of items to find. I inherited my first speech room from an SLP who was there for over 30 years. At the same school. 30 years! Needless to say, she had a LOT of materials that she didn't take with her when she retired. Some of these items were great, while some left something to be desired. I didn't really need a set of dittos (you know, the purple looking mimeographed papers) from 1975. I'm not saying that something from that time frame might not be useable, but the pictures are sometimes really hard to decipher for my students, and sometimes inappropriate too. So, what do you do? 1) Sort materials. Go through your cabinets, bookshelves, boxes, etc. and make piles of items. I like to organize by topic. Put all of your articulation items in a pile. WH question materials in another pile. Vocabulary items in another pile. You get the picture. It will take some time, but trust me, you will appreciate it later. This will not only organize you, but you will get a better picture of what is actually in your new speech room. 2) Purge. (a bit) What I mean by this is go through and throw away those old dittos that you know you will never use. As a new SLP, I wouldn't throw away all materials though. Just because it is old doesn't mean it may not be of use to you. If you question whether you may use something. Keep it. Next year you can do this again and get rid of anything you truly never touched. 3) Make a donate box. Sometimes when I am going through my items I find duplicates of things that I either already have or things that there are just duplicates of. I put these items in a box to share with my fellow SLPs in my department. You could also try to share with any SLP groups you are a part of. Make sure you have permission from your district if you are trying to sell any materials. If you sell the items you could use the money to purchase new therapy materials. Again, just make sure you have permission to do this, it may be district property. 4) Organize materials on your shelves. Now you are at a place where you can take all of those lovely piles of therapy materials and place them on your shelves, in cabinets, drawers, or pretty much wherever you can find a spot. I like to label my cabinets with my trusty label maker when I move to a new place just so I can find everything easily. I organize my shelves by topic. Now that I have organized my items on the tables, all I have to do is place them on the shelves and label the category. I like to keep all of my games handy. This year I used the top of a file cabinet next to my kidney shaped table to house all of my games. This makes them easy to reach when I am pulling materials. I also like to keep all of my articulation cards close at hand. Unfortunately, when I moved in, I wasn't really left with a lot of those. I left all of my old cards at my last office because they were purchased for that particular school. I loved those cards, and I'll have to replace them soon. Now you should have all of your materials in place, and you can move on to figuring out your caseload. You can check out this post about how to organize your student files with some tips to get you started.
Learn all the best tips for how to organize speech therapy materials by themes, so you know where your stuff is when you need it!
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Most SLPs don't have a lot of extra money to spend on decorating a speech room. Check out these ideas to decorate your speech room on a budget!
Speech Therapy labels to organize all your materials and printables by season, month, or theme in your storage area or Speech room.
Struggling to keep your speech room organized? Read about this SLP's favorite speech room organization tips and tricks.
Welcome! I view my therapy room as my “home away from home” so I try to make it warm and inviting. Students need to feel accepted and safe and that’s what I want my room to portray. I hope you’ll look around and maybe get some ideas for your space! There are many times I …
