Who loves low-prep speech therapy activities that cover a LOT of goals? And keeps your students engaged? Um, we are all raising our hands right now. If you have yet to hear of the wordless short Simon’s Cat videos, you need to check them out. In fact, I am going to tell ya all the goods about how to use the Simon’s Cat videos in speech therapy. Reading this blog post will make planning for mixed groups a WHOLE lot easier.

What Are Simon’s Cat Videos?

Why Simon’s Cat Videos For Speech Therapy 

• These videos are free—less money to spend on Therapy materials.
• There are a ton of videos. Seasonal-themed and generic, I can use them in speech therapy all year long.
• You can use Simon’s Cat videos across a variety of ages. I have used them with 1st-8th grade. You could also test them out among the high school ages.
• I like watching them. Therapy always seems more exciting if I enjoy the resource because I am excited to talk about the videos.
• You can use Simon’s Cat Videos with your mixed groups. Planning for each student in my groups can be challenging because I have to find different activities and then manage the group to stay on task. Having one resource to cover everyone’s goals increases on-task behavior.
• The setting in the video is usually Simon’s house, and the characters are a man and a cat. I know that in many of the videos, my students have exposure to the vocabulary, so I don’t have to spend much time around schemes and background knowledge. 
• These videos are short! They are only 2-3 minutes long so you can get through them in a 30-minute session.

How To Simon’s Cat Speech Therapy Ideas

Use Cheat Sheets with Simon’s Cat Wordless Short Videos

If you need quick speech therapy lesson plans for mixed groups that you can use with younger and older students, check out these seasonal Simon’s Cat speech therapy cheat sheets.

They come with 3-page cheat sheets for winter, Valentine’s day, spring, summer, fall & Thanksgiving, and Christmas!

And there are sentence strips, graphic organizers, and visual supports to help you cover a TON of speech and language goals.

Try out the One the Fence Simon’s Cat speech therapy cheat sheet by clicking the pink button. 

Articulation Speech Therapy Ideas

• During the video, you can have the students write down or tell you words they saw or heard with their speech sounds. After the video, they can say each word five times or use it in a sentence. You can also write a cheat sheet of target words from the video.
• The SLP can have the student answer comprehension questions from the video with their target speech sounds.
• Summarize the video using the target words from the video with their best speech sounds.

Language Speech Therapy Ideas

• The SLP can help their students build more complex sentences using the video. Watch the video and then have the students describe the parts of speech they see in the video. If you want more information about effective grammar intervention, check out this blog post I did with some research I found. 
• Teach and show vocabulary with these videos. The SLP can pick target vocabulary words to teach from the video. During the speech therapy session, target antonyms, synonyms, word associations, attributes, and adjectives to describe items in the video.
• Discuss the main idea of the video and work on making a new video title for the video.
• Teach specific grammar concepts such as third-person singular, pronouns, plurals, verb tense, and noun-verb agreement.
• If you need cheat sheets to remember all these ways of using the Simon’s Cat videos, check out these Simon’s Cat speech therapy cheat sheets to use throughout the year.

Social Skills Simon’s Cat Speech Therapy Ideas

How Do You Use the Simon’s Cat Videos?

How would you use Simon’s Cat videos in speech therapy? I would love to hear your therapy ideas.