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Feeling overwhelmed by planning, paperwork, and packed caseloads? You’re not alone—but you are in the right place. This round-up of go-to speech therapy resources is here to make your life easier and your sessions more effective. From time-saving tools and research-backed materials to engaging speech therapy activities, you’ll find practical ideas to help you tackle everything from speech sounds to literacy with confidence (and maybe even a little fun). Consider this your one-stop shop for streamlining your workload and boosting your therapy game!
Working with students with articulation, phonology, or apraxia goals? These speech therapy resources for speech sound disorders will save you time and help your students make faster progress. Whether you need elicitation strategies, play-based activities, professional development training, or specific tools, these picks have you covered.
Support tools and continuing education to improve your confidence when working on articulation, phonology, and apraxia:
1. Pam Marshalla’s Speech Sound Elicitation Book – Practical strategies to elicit sounds, breaking down speech movement, and ways to teach all the sounds!
2. Speech Therapy Apraxia Resources – Amy Graham has an excellent resource for finding PD and tools for apraxia therapy. Edythe Strand has a free apraxia course, and Bondar Speech Therapy has a course to help you navigate treatment and diagnosis.
3. Toy Companion Cheat Sheets – Use your favorite toys and games for play-based articulation and phonology goals, utilizing the cheat sheets to have speech sound targets readily available for pairing with the toys and games.
4. Magic School AI – Use AI tools to generate speech word lists or visual supports for articulation sessions. In the Themed Therapy SLP membership, we provide speech word lists for over 30 themed units to use in your sessions.
5. Speech Sound Cues – Get visuals for showing your students how sounds are made. Bjorem Speech has many sets. Speechy Musings has a free set of printables.
6. How to Say Sounds Videos – To help demonstrate how to produce sounds, use the videos from Peachy Speechy. You can incorporate them into your sessions or provide them as speech homework.
7. Drill practice activities word and sentences – If you are looking for articulation activities that get high trials and keep kids engaged, check out my articulation flipbooks (they come as a no-print or a printable version).
Little Bee Speech has a great app called Articulation Station that can help you get quick trials for easy prep sessions.
For ideas on drill practice by sound or seasonal theme, I have numerous blog posts offering suggestions for toys, games, and activities that incorporate sound.
8. Easy Report Pro – If writing reports eats up your time, this tool will be your new best friend. Once you customize your templates, Easy Report Pro can cut your report writing time in half.
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9. SLP Toolkit – From data collection to progress monitoring and daily session notes, SLP Toolkit helps you stay organized and on top of IEP goals without drowning in paperwork.
10. Swivel Scheduler – Need help balancing a packed caseload and staying on schedule? Swivel Scheduler helps you track service minutes, goal data, and attendance in one place.
11. SLP Scheduler – Creating your weekly therapy schedule just got easier. Use SLP Scheduler to build a working speech therapy schedule in minutes—not hours.
12. Time-Saving Tools with AI by Daj – Want to bring AI into your workflow? Daj shares practical ways to utilize ChatGPT and other AI tools to expedite lesson planning and streamline caseload management on the Real Talk SLP podcast. She also has a course to help SLPs learn these techy tools.
13. The Informed SLP – While not a traditional planning tool, The Informed SLP helps you make smarter clinical decisions faster by summarizing key research and showing how it applies to your caseload. CEUs are also available.
Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is essential when working with bilingual and multilingual learners. These speech therapy resources for bilingual assessment and intervention can help you confidently evaluate language differences versus disorders, select the right materials, and provide equitable support across diverse backgrounds.
Resources to boost expressive/receptive language skills and assessment tools:
Books and literacy-based activities are powerful tools for building language, vocabulary, and comprehension in speech therapy sessions. These speech therapy resources for reading and literacy are perfect for targeting a wide range of language goals—from phonological awareness and grammar to narrative skills and inferencing. Whether you’re supporting students with dyslexia, using read-alouds to model complex sentences, or aligning therapy with classroom reading instruction, these tools will help you bring evidence-based literacy practices into your sessions.
27. Book Share Time – A growing database of book recommendations categorized by speech and language goals. Ideal for finding new titles to keep your therapy sessions engaging and focused.
28. Maya’s Book Nook – has lots of diverse books and provide lesson plan guides for what to do before reading the book, target vocabulary, what to do during, and after reading the story as well as sample questions to ask. This is all for free!
29.Book companions and cheat sheets – If you love planning literacy-based speech therapy sessions by theme, join the Themed Therapy SLP membership. We provide book companions, cheat sheets with targets for wh-questions, verbs, vocabulary, articulation and more for themed books! Each themed unit comes with 6 book companions and cheat sheets by age (Prek-1st, 2nd-3rd, 4th-5th).
Need help navigating your role in Response to Intervention (RTI)? Whether you’re collaborating with teachers, providing tiered supports, or documenting student progress, these speech therapy resources for RTI will give you the tools, ideas, and guidance to implement effective classroom interventions and screen for potential speech and language delays. From preschool through elementary, these tools can help you streamline your approach while staying aligned with best practices.
30. Super Duper Language Lab RTI Program – A structured program offering language-based RTI interventions with evidence-based strategies and activities for Tier 1, 2, and 3.
31. Ms. Gardenia’s Speech Room – RTI in the Classroom – A helpful breakdown of how to implement speech/language interventions in the general education setting, with tips for documentation, classroom strategies, and early support.
32. Real Talk SLP Podcast – Episode 52: Preschool RTI with Darla – Get practical insight into implementing RTI with preschoolers from an SLP who’s been there. This episode covers screening, collaborating with teachers, and setting up interventions in early childhood settings.
If you’ve ever walked into a classroom for push-in speech therapy and thought, “Now what?”, you’re not alone. Planning for co-teaching or collaborative lessons can feel overwhelming—especially when you’re trying to support a wide range of goals in a busy classroom setting. These speech therapy resources for push-in and collaborative services will give you the structure, confidence, and ideas you need to make your sessions successful. From lesson planning tips to real-life examples and collaboration strategies, these tools will help you feel more prepared (and a lot less stressed).
33. Push-In Speech Therapy Planning Tips – Get strategies for what to do before pushing into classrooms, along with examples of how to structure your sessions.
34. Collaborative Service Delivery Models in Speech Therapy – Learn the different ways you can partner with teachers to support students without pulling them out of class.
35. Push-In Services for Speech Therapy (Updated with Free Guide) – This post includes updated strategies for push-in services, plus a free guide to help you get started with lesson planning and collaboration.
36. Real Talk SLP Episode 60: Three Things to Do Before You Co-Teach – Podcast episode with practical tips to help you prep for successful co-teaching sessions.
37. Real Talk SLP Episode 42: 3 Tips for Collaborating with Colleagues – Helpful advice on building relationships with staff and becoming a trusted member of the classroom support team.
38. Stuttering Foundation – A go-to resource with free downloadable materials, CEU courses, and client handouts. Great for building your fluency knowledge base.
39. Dr. J. Scott Yaruss – Stuttering Therapy Resources – Evidence-based materials for working with students who stutter. Includes assessment tools, education handouts, and therapy guides.
40. Nina Reeves – Stuttering Therapy Training and Products – Known for practical, school-friendly fluency resources that help students gain confidence. Includes her popular “School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide.”
41. SLP Stephen – Stephen Groner shares evidence-based, inclusive strategies for supporting students who stutter. His blog, courses, and handouts are especially helpful for school-based SLPs wanting to grow their fluency skills.
You don’t have to know everything to be an effective SLP—you just need to know where to find the tools and information that help you make smart, confident decisions for your students. Whether you’re feeling stuck with a tricky case, overwhelmed by paperwork, or just in need of fresh therapy ideas, these speech therapy resources are here to support you. Bookmark this post so you can come back when you need a boost, and remember: you’re not alone in this work, and you don’t have to do it all from scratch. Let these resources lighten your load and help you keep showing up as the incredible therapist you already are.
