Allison Fors, Inc.

Speech Therapy Tools for SLPs and Educators

Using Pictures for One-Item, No-Prep Speech Therapy

No-prep therapy! Pictures in speech therapy: use ONE picture to practice MANY speech therapy language targets! Do you find yourself needing to streamline things? We don’t have a lot of excess time at work for therapy session prep, putting together resources, or paperwork.  I’m always trying to find ways to be more productive and make…

The Importance of Movement in Speech Therapy (& How to Use It)

Incorporating movement and sensory activities in speech therapy can help children learn and can be especially beneficial to those with autism or sensory processing disorder. Movement gets the blood pumping throughout the entire body, which includes a rush of blood flow to the brain. That increase in oxygen and energy maximizes brain performance, which leads…

Preschool Must-Haves for Speech Therapy

Do you work with preschool-aged kids in language intervention? Discover must-have toys and activities to use in speech therapy! When working with younger children, especially those in preschool or early intervention, it’s important that therapy is engaging and fun. Children are much more willing to engage and able to learn when they like you and…

Why You Should Be Using Sensory Play in Speech Therapy

Sensory play is an underutilized activity in speech therapy – use sensory bins, sensory bottles, and more to stimulate language, social skills, and motor skills! “Sensory play” means activities that stimulate one or more of the child’s senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing, vestibular, and proprioception. The more senses we can incorporate into learning, the…

Using the Auditory Sandwich as a Language Intervention Tool

Use the auditory sandwich to facilitate auditory skills for children with hearing loss in speech therapy! Welcome and thanks to my guest blogger, Stacy from TeleTalk! Many Speech-Language Pathologists have limited experience working with children who have hearing loss, despite many years in the field. When they do serve a child who wears cochlear implants…

Easy Speech Therapy Activity Ideas to do Today

Ever get in a rut in therapy? It happens to all of us. My rule of thumb – if I’m bored, they’re bored. It can be hard to keep things new and interesting. I’m sharing some of my favorite, go-to speech therapy activity ideas to keep things engaging and motivating for my speech therapy students.…

How and Why to Teach Sequencing

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 updated. These are my best speech therapy materials from Amazon! Amazon makes shopping and finding a good deal easy. Especially with the Prime membership, you can get things within 1-2 days of ordering. Amazon tends to have the best prices…

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:…

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