Teaching sequencing in speech therapy and the classroom! Sequencing is a critical communication and life skill. What is sequencing? Why is sequencing important? Sequencing means being able to arrange information, language, and actions in the correct order. Did you know even babies are learning to sequence when they put sounds together to form words, and…
Amazon Must-Haves for SLPs and Special Educators
The ultimate Amazon guide for speech therapists and special educators – these lists are constantly being updated! Amazon makes shopping and finding a good deal easy. Especially with the Amazon Prime membership, you can get things within 1-2 days of ordering. Amazon tends to have the best prices and it’s easy to compare similar products…
Creative Ways to Use Trinkets in Speech Therapy
Trinkets are an engaging manipulative to use in speech therapy. They are versatile for many articulation and language targets! Goals to target: articulation expanding sentences/mean length utterances describing compare/contrast prepositions following directions negation (which one is not..?) qualitative (big/little, same/different) quantitative (more/less, all/one/none) vocabulary categories Wh questions Ways to incorporate manipulatives in your therapy sessions:…
Why You Should Be Using BOOM CARDS in Speech Therapy
What are BOOM cards? Boom cards are digital task cards that you play on the Boom Learning website. They are easy and fun to use! NO PRINTING, CUTTING, LAMINATING INTERACTIVE SELF-GRADING USE WITH INTERNET CONNECTED DEVICES: COMPUTERS, TABLETS, SMARTBOARDS DATA TRACKING WITH PAID SUBSCRIPTION You will receive a link to the task cards on the…
Top 5 iPad Apps for Speech Therapy Sessions
Welcome and thanks to my guest blogger, Kandice from Sparkly Speech Girl! In my therapy sessions I like to use multiple modalities to target a child’s goal; if you’re following my speech journey on Instagram you know that I love using books, games, sensory bins, worksheets and my iPad! I work with pre-school through High…
30 Books to Target Inferencing in Speech Therapy
Books are a great way to work on inferencing in your speech therapy sessions, at home, or in your classrooms. The ability to make inferences is a key part of skilled reading comprehension and effective communication – after all, we use it every day! Children need to be able to understand the unspoken connection between…
5 Easy Speech Therapy Ideas Using Common Christmas Items
Welcome and thanks to my guest blogger, Lindsay from Once Upon a Speech Room! Christmas is one of my favorite times of year to plan therapy. I’m continually inspired to bring more new ideas into my therapy sessions, but my most favorite items to use are always simple, common Christmas items. They are easy to…
How to Use Sensory Bottles in Speech Therapy
I’ve recently discovered how much fun it is to make sensory bottles! It got me thinking about how you can incorporate them in speech therapy sessions or in your classroom. Since sensory bottles are so open-ended in how you make them, there are tons of ways to use them. What are sensory bottles? They are…
A Better Way to Teach Past Tense Verbs
English grammar rules are hard! Past tense verbs are definitely not my favorite speech therapy goal to work on. There is not much logic and reasoning in past tense verbs forms, making them difficult to both teach and learn. I have found the best way is to teach by verb pattern, as opposed to teaching them…
Why You Should Be Using a Train Set in Speech Therapy
A train set is a popular and well-loved toy in speech therapy – for both therapists and kids! I love that I can use trains with a wide age range and to target so many goals. Train sets are a motivating and engaging toy for many students. Since it is an open-ended toy, train sets…
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