13 Teen Speech Therapy Activities Round-Up for Middle School and High School

Teen speech therapy activities for middle school and high school aged kids. This round-up of resources are ready to download and use now!

Are you searching for purposeful social skills activities for middle school and high school students? It’s can be hard to find age-appropriate resources for your speech and language sessions. Check out these functional, real-world problem-solving scenarios for teens.

Find social skills, life skills, and grammar activities, plus development and free downloads.

Teen Social Skills Activities

TEEN COMMUNITY SOCIAL SCENARIOS – Social skills community activities for middle school and high school! Includes 80 social situations, plus options to include custom-made ones depending on your student’s needs.

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TEEN TRAVELING SOCIAL SCENARIOS – Use this thorough product designed to work on various social skills. These interactive activities will give your students control of the situations and questions presented. Includes 80 social situations, plus options to include custom-made ones depending on your student’s needs.

TEEN CONVERSATION PROMPTS – 100 conversation prompts to use with your students! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions. Use in speech teletherapy! Target pragmatic language, articulation, fluency, answering questions, and sentence formulation.

TEEN THOUGHT BUBBLE INFERENCES – Practice social skills: making inferences, identifying emotions, empathy, what you should think versus say, and conversational skills! This activity can be open-ended or structured if used with the supports. Pictures are appropriate for older students.

Teen Life Skills Activities

PERSONAL HYGIENE – Designed to be inclusive and adaptable, these life skills activities are perfect for a wide range of ages and abilities. Whether you’re teaching young children the basics of hygiene or guiding teens through more complex routines, this product is versatile enough to meet your needs.

ALL ABOUT ME LIFE SKILLS – Help students with the necessary life skill of knowing their personal information. These all about me resources include activities designed for younger and older students.

Teen Grammar Activities

PAST TENSE VERBS COMPREHENSIVE UNIT – This unit focuses on high-frequency and earlier developing regular and irregular past tense verbs. It includes over 100 past tense verbs with real photos. All the verbs are separated by verb pattern to teach in a logical, ordered manner.

PLURAL NOUNS COMPREHENSIVE UNIT – A comprehensive resource to introduce, teach, and generalize regular and irregular plurals. Teach plurals in a way that makes sense. This resource focuses on regular plurals and common irregular plurals. It is a comprehensive packet with over 100 plurals with real photos. All the plurals are separated by pattern to teach in a logical, ordered manner.

Speech-Language Development

GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT HANDOUTS – This resource outlines the big-picture of grammar acquisition in early childhood. It reviews the different aspects of syntactic structures, why they are critical for communication, and what makes them especially difficult. It goes into depth on syntax, morphology, mean length utterance, as well as common morphological and syntactic errors.

SPEECH-LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT HANDOUTS –This is a “must-have SLP resource” including in-depth hierarchies and charts + parent-friendly explanations and their research. There is a page dedicated to prepositions development with the ages concepts are acquired. Use them in IEP meetings, as posters for your room, caregiver handouts, to write goals, and more! Stop worrying about memorizing milestones or frantically searching the internet for development charts.

Free Resources

FREE CONVERSATION PROMPTS – Conversation prompts or ice breakers to use with your students in speech therapy or the classroom! Great for social skills groups or individual sessions. Target pragmatic language, articulation, fluency, answering questions, and sentence formulation.

FREE SOCIAL SKILLS RESOURCE LISTS – Discover ideas to plan and execute social skills therapy! Includes six pages of information and resources: types of social skills, developmental stages, websites, apps, and games.

FREE SPEECH THERAPY HANDOUTS – Some helpful handouts for older kids include areas of executive functioning, components of social communication, and graphics to help teens understand concepts like voiced vs. voiceless consonants.

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• Social Skills You Should Be Targeting in Speech Therapy
• Games for Developing Social Skills
• The Difference Between Social Skills and Pragmatics