• Shop
    • Speech Therapy
    • Clipart
    • Reviews
    • My Account
  • Free
  • Blog
  • Topics
    • Early Intervention & Preschool
    • Language
    • Social Language
    • Articulation & Phonology
    • Sensory Differences
    • Cleft Lip and Palate
  • Contact
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
  • 0 items

Allison Fors, Inc.

Speech Therapy Tools for SLPs and Educators

Creative Ways to Use Trinkets in Speech Therapy

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:

SENSORY BIN: Throw them in a bin with any filler. I’ve found that the smaller trinkets can get lost in the types of fillers that are dense, for example, beans. I like to use fillers like shredded paper and packing peanuts. You can read more about sensory bins and get many more filler ideas in this post.

using trinkets in speech therapy 1

SENSORY BOTTLE: If you have younger kids where these could be a choking hazard, put them in a sensory bottle. They are essentially a safe, clean version of a sensory bin. Or you can make an “I spy” bottle for articulation. I like to make a word list to go with the items I put in the bottle! It makes for more activity opportunities by looking for a specific item or marking them off the list.

using trinkets in speech therapy 2

LANGUAGE MATS: Create ways to sort or use the manipulative on a piece of paper or whiteboard. You can draw a Venn diagram to work on comparing and contrasting 2 trinkets.
You can write a carrier phrase and place the trinket in the sentence.

using trinkets in speech therapy 3

Trinkets pictured are from SpeechTreeCo and dinky doodads. The trinkets from SpeechTreeCo are unique because you can buy sets for specific articulation sounds and ones to target various language targets.

Do you use trinkets and manipulatives in therapy? How else do you utilize them?

 

 

If you enjoyed this post, please share it!
Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Share on PinterestShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Email

Creative Ways to Use Manipulatives in Speech Therapy

Related Posts

  • 5 Easy Ways to Make an Activity Engaging5 Easy Ways to Make an Activity Engaging
  • Nonverbal Communication Skills: Making The Implicit More ExplicitNonverbal Communication Skills: Making The Implicit More Explicit
  • prompt versus cueWhat’s the Difference Between a Prompt and a Cue?
Creative Ways to Use Manipulatives in Speech Therapy

February 8, 2019 allisonfors Leave a Comment Filed Under: Early Intervention, Sensory Bins, Therapy Ideas

Why You Should Be Using BOOM CARDS in Speech Therapy
Amazon Must-Haves for SLPs and Special Educators

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Hi, I'm Allison! A speech & language resource author who loves the creative process of making therapy materials and clipart, as well as connecting with educators world wide. Learn more about me here! Read More…

Effective communication comes in all shapes and si Effective communication comes in all shapes and sizes! Verbal, written, gestures, sign language, an AAC device...

As educators we understand this but it’s also our responsibly to relay and explain this to caregivers!
“Children gesture before they begin to speak and “Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the language learning process...children’s early gestures not only precede, but also predict, the onset of a number of linguistic milestones–nouns, nominal constituents, simple and complex sentences. Gesturing may thus play a causal role in language learning, and could do so in two ways: (1) Gesturing gives children the opportunity to practice expressing ideas in a preverbal form. (2) A child’s gestures offer parents and other communication partners insight into the child’s linguistic level, thus giving the partners the opportunity to provide input tailored to that level.”

Goldin-Meadow, S. How gesture helps children learn language. (2014)

Some caregivers worry that we are giving up on verbal language when we begin using gestures or other non-verbal forms of communication.But gestures can be an amazing stepping stone to words. They seem to help the concept of communication click for a child...If I do this, then I get what I want/need! Have you found this to be the true?
SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic with the newest research!

Note: These numbers are based on unfamiliar listeners in an unknown context. You will notice the dark blue is the milestone (when 95% of children at this intelligible) and the light blue is the average (when 50% of children are this intelligible.)

The snapshot on the left is a summary given by the researchers (Hustad, et al.) as a quick way to remember and recite this new information.

Find these updated intelligibility levels in the Free SLP Handouts!

The paid handouts were updated a while back with this new information and have a more detailed summary, including word-level intelligibility. If you own them, be sure to redownload!

Free Speech Therapy Handouts: bit.ly/FreeSLPHandouts
Speech-Language Development Handouts: bit.ly/SLPHandouts
Save this post! 📚 Some favorite books for soc Save this post! 📚 

Some favorite books for social emotional learning >> inferencing >> verbs >> negation

You can find more book round-ups by categories at: allisonfors.com/?=books
📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to b 📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to break down a word into the smallest unit or sound. This includes phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, addition, deletion, and substitution.

It’s ESSENTIAL to work on these skills starting in Preschool and continuing to focus on them in Kindergarten and First Grade!

The Speech-Language Development Handouts break down what to target at each grade level + the phonological awareness steps with definitions and examples!

bit.ly/SLPHandouts
What can we expect from toddler attention span? ⏰ It’s easy to over-expect the amount of time a child can sit and attend to a structured activity. Do these numbers surprise you or are they what you’d expect?

Memory trick 💡 You can remember the number of minutes a child can attend is approximately twice the child’s age.

Note: Don’t forget to use developmental age.

Save this post + tag an educator or parent!

Gaertner et al. (2008) Focused Attention in Toddlers

Copyright © 2022 · Allison Fors, Inc. · Hello You Designs

My Account
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy