Oral Motor Exercises for Children, skills refer to the appropriate functioning and use of the facial muscles lips, jaw, tongue, cheeks etc.
Research shows that shorter, more frequent sessions are more effective for learning and retention than longer, less frequent sessions.
Community outings can help teach students in a natural environment. Grab your free printables for high school students today and start practicing...
What Questions Autism Worksheets for Special Ed and Speech Therapy Set 1 and 2This is a great packet to target basic "what" questions, good for students with autism and special needs.Click here for What Questions Boom Cards.There are 30 pages to be printed on photo paper, laminated and cut out to ge...
Oral Motor Exercises for Children, skills refer to the appropriate functioning and use of the facial muscles lips, jaw, tongue, cheeks etc.
Help your students learn how to answer wh questions with these 108 wh questions worksheets task cards. Be sure to print the wh questions poster...
Help your students learn how to answer wh questions with these 108 wh questions worksheets task cards. Be sure to print the wh questions poster...
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Teach your students this simple 5 step process to solving a social problem. Give your students the skills they need to independently ...
Wordless videos in speech therapy are a fun way to target a variety of goals, including inferencing. Check out these gems I found
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!
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 back and shaking my fists in the air cursing, “why me!?” Let me tell you… I used to struggle with how to teach the R […]
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Sometimes when working with young children on the production of speech sounds, it is helpful to provide the little one’s with a fun label, or name, for the sound(s) you are teaching. Providing a visual cue to go along with the label is also very helpful, to provide multisensory instruction. Several years ago I asked […]
A social story is a simple description of how to behave and what to expect in a particular situation. Grab your 13 free editable social stories here to...
Teach your students this simple 5 step process to solving a social problem. Give your students the skills they need to independently ...
Help your students learn how to answer wh questions with these 108 wh questions worksheets task cards. Be sure to print the wh questions poster...
Looking for an interactive PDF for speech therapy that works with your whole caseload? Grab FREE interactive PDF that covers artic, lang, and social...
Looking for an interactive PDF for speech therapy that works with your whole caseload? Grab FREE interactive PDF that covers artic, lang, and social...
Is your student producing multiple sound errors? Are you unsure of where to start? Review the typical and atypical phonological processing disorder...
This past week we've been enjoying toys and games during our therapy sessions. With COVID it's been awhile since we've sat closer at a table and shared game pieces so this week was so much fun for the kids and myself! Over the years I have created a wide variety of game companions and mats that can be used to target a variety of speech and language skills while also playing with toys or games. Each activity is available separately but I have also bundled most of these Toys and Game companions on TPT for a discount! All the pictures below are linked. Check them out! Playdough Mats First up, playdough mats! I have a range of articulation and language mats that make planning mixed groups super easy. Pop it Companions This is a new companion I made this year when the Pop it craze took over my kids. They love this one! Play N' Say Mats Uno is always requested with my kids in grades 2nd-5th. These mats make it easy to target speech sounds while also playing. When they play a card they must say the word on the color mat that matches. Speech Builders I printed and laminated these strips and use them with a variety of blocks. Duplo, legos and hashtag blocks, they love them all! While most of the toys and games we've played with are physical games, we have many boom card games we play too. Tic-Tac-Talk This is an easy one for the beginning or the end of a session. We always get a lot of trials in when we play this game. Articulation Four-in-a-Row I have an articulation and a language version of this game. It's similar to Connect 4 except players can put their pieces anywhere on the board. First to four in a row wins! Game Companions This file has open-ended mats for a large variety of games. So many ways to play! Guess What? A little while ago I made an Articulation Mini-Objects kit and we use them to play many different games. This Guess What poster is an easy way to play using a mystery box or bag. We hide objects and the kids ask questions to figure out what's inside. Some of my kids need a little more help than the poster so we may use these Mystery Box mats to give them an idea of what could be inside the box. For my preschoolers I have a collection of toddler toys/games we like to play with to increase overall language skills. These Vocabulary Parking Lots are free and so much fun to "park" our cards on different words. Also for my younger kids or for my kids who are working to expand language skills we incorporate Aided Language Mats into our play. We place the mats near the toys and point to the words as we use them or try to incorporate these common words while we play. Play-Based Speech and Language Therapy Another FREE resource, are these play-based cards that give ideas, tips or tricks to target speech and/or language skills during play. These are super helpful to send home to parents for home practice too. That's a wrap for toys and games. We played this past week but we often incorporate these toys and games throughout the year!
I needed more NO PREP speech therapy ideas to get me through this season. Therapy in April and May can feel redundant and... boring (*gasp* I said it!). Blue ta
Finding activities to use on my client's kids can be hard to find. In this post, I share with you easy and simple activities I use in my therapy sessions.
Community outings can help teach students in a natural environment. Grab your free printables for high school students today and start practicing...
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
That popping pirate game that your student's love so much is now digital! AND EDITABLE! Your students are going to have so much fun playing this interactive game! You can use this game in teletherapy on a computer, or you can use it on a smartboard or on your iPad!This PowerPoint game is formatted to be editable so you can add your own targets to show up under the swords! There is also an opened ended version included with no targets under the words. I have also included pre-made articulation photo cards for many phonemes, but you can also add any images you like. You can also add written questions if you prefer that format.
Kids of all ages love things that go ZOOM! Here are some speech therapy activities that will get their wheels spinning.
Articulation cards are a staple in Speech Therapy rooms. Articulation Flash Cards can be used in so many ways with preschoolers and elementary students... buuuttt sometimes they can get boring and repetitive. Check out these articulation card ideas to bring some new and exciting speech therapy activities into your therapy room! You can use these ideas in group therapy or in one-on-one sessions or even send them home for easy articulation homework ideas! • WHAT’S THERE?: Place 5 cards around the
What Questions Autism Worksheets for Special Ed and Speech Therapy Set 1 and 2This is a great packet to target basic "what" questions, good for students with autism and special needs.Click here for What Questions Boom Cards.There are 30 pages to be printed on photo paper, laminated and cut out to ge...
Working with students who have trouble with comprehension questions and expressive language skills can be frustrating. It can be difficult to know where to start!! A great first step is to try some fill in the blank phrases. Fill in the blank phrases can be used for familiar and functional phrases that we may say […]
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 back and shaking my fists in the air cursing, “why me!?” Let me tell you… I used to struggle with how to teach the R […]
It's no secret that we play a lot of games in speech therapy. Games offer great opportunities for using language and they make practicing skills that may be hard for students to do more fun. I have put together a list of my most played games in therapy. Sometimes we play them to increase overall language or social skills while other times we play to target a specific skill. I have also created some open-ended templates to use with the games to help us stay on track with practicing our goals while also playing. If you are interested in the game companions, I have linked them to the pictures. The games themselves offer a lot of unstructured language and pragmatic skill opportunities! Pop the Pig This is the #1 most requested game. It is great for taking turns and making requests. I usually don't use the dice but instead, have the student's request which color they want. Connect 4 This game is great when I only have two students in the group or if it's a one-on-one session. The concept of this game is a little harder for my younger students to understand so I usually play with 2nd grade and up. Kerplunk I like games that build suspense and this one definitely does that. Only downside to this game is that it tends to be over relatively quickly and the marbles can get away from us. Zingo This game is great for pre-K, kindergarten and 1st grade. My kids that work on language skills get lots of opportunities to match and name simple pictures of objects. It also has a good variety of simple words to work on articulation skills too. Candy Land Another pre-K, kindergarten and 1st-grade favorite game. I do get some who are discouraged when they have to move backward if they get a "specialty" card so sometimes I will just take those out of the deck to avoid it. This one also offers good opportunities for counting too. Spot It My 1st-5th graders love this one and I do too because it's quick and easy! It doesn't involve any set-up. We usually play and search for words that contain our articulation sound. Sometimes we'll play for fun at the end of a session to monitor carryover skills. Tumbling Monkeys Another game that my kids ask for a lot is Tumbling Monkeys. This one takes a little longer to set up but it takes a while to play so it can usually last the entire session. Don't Spill the Beans This game is great for little ones but it is another game that is over quickly so we usually play 3-4 times and then move on to something else during a session. Let's Go Fishing! The noise of this game can get a little unnerving but it is another good game for pre-K and kindergarten. This one doesn't require much turn-taking or requesting but you can work on counting and naming/identifying colors with this game. It's also super quick to set-up. It's also a great reinforcer game for the end of a session or if a student needs breaks throughout a session. Ants in the Pants This game is so fun because ants are usually just flying everywhere when we play. My kindergarten-2nd graders usually like to play this game but I've been surprised that my older kids will ask to play it too. Pop Up Pirate This game is definitely suspenseful and similar to Pop the Pig because you put in swords until the pirate pops up. The downside is that this one is usually over pretty quickly too so we will usually play several rounds during a session. Jenga This game is best for 3rd grade and up as my little ones usually just like knocking it over. My older kids really get that you DON'T want it to fall and play with more purpose. Uno I think my 4th and 5th graders would play Uno every session if I let them. They love this game and really understand the concept. The companion helps us to focus on speech goals while playing too. I always find it funny that even my oldest students (4th and 5th grade) still love to play many of these games and ask for them often! I hope this has given you some new ideas for games to play during therapy!
Speech and Language key teaching concepts for the fire safety-themed picture book No Dragons for Tea: Fire Safety for Kids (and Dragons) in speech therapy.
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