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Push-In Speech Therapy – How to Set Up Your Lessons
There has been a big shift in school districts wanting Speech Pathologists to adopt push-in speech therapy services for their caseloads. It is very easy to tell SLPs to use this model, but without guidance, this process feels overwhelming. And as SLPs in the trenches, we know that when implementing a new model or approach, many conflicts can arise that impact delivering collaborative services well.
Be Successful With Organizing Your Caseload – Tips For The First Week Back
Managing your caseload IS overwhelming. Especially, if your caseload is over 65. SLP caseload organization is seriously a process--lol! Some of you SLPs have caseloads that I am sure 4 speech pathologists could be managing. That is crazy to me. The Struggles I Faced...
Articulation Activities Speech Therapy Ideas
Trying to get those 100+ trials during articulation therapy can be challenging! Student motivation and mixed therapy groups can make it tough to get high repetitions. I wrote this blog post to introduce new articulation activities for speech therapy sessions. It’s not...
Back-To-School Speech Therapy Activities
At the beginning of the new school year, doing a back-to-school-themed therapy unit is a way to reinforce school vocabulary and discuss concepts about school! Kids already have school on the brain, which helps to use therapy to build personal connections around going...
First Week of Speech Therapy Ideas
When you start back at school running speech therapy groups, it's kinda of hard to know where to "begin" with your sessions. You know some students from previous years while others on your caseload are brand new to you! The ultimate goal of the first week of speech is...
Sentence Strips In Speech Therapy
Today, I want to share how to use sentence strips in speech therapy with your entire caseload! Have you ever worked with a student not getting the speech or language skills you were working on in speech therapy? You frantically grab a post-it note and write a visual...
10 Ways to Use a Pizza Toy Set in Speech
Making time for play therapy in your lesson plan is a great way to have your student work on their language in a functional and engaging way. Kids love to play, and they also love pizza! Which makes these pizza toy sets a must-have tool for your speech therapy...
Articulation Game That Gets 100 Trials
If you are trying to get more trials in your speech sound sessions but want to keep your students motivated to practice, check out this free articulation game! Nothing makes a speech therapy session drag more than when students complain that they must practice their...
Speech Therapy Schedule Template & Tips for How to Make EP 104
When it comes to making your speech therapy schedule in the school setting, the process can be overwhelming and ever changing. There is no PERFECT way to make your speech therapy schedule, but after making a schedule for many years, I do have some tips and tricks for...
If You Take a Mouse to School Speech Therapy Lesson Plan – Ep 103
When it comes to speech therapy lesson planning, it can get a big overwhelming because we don’t just serve one specific treatment area. We serve articulation, phonology, language, social pragmatics, fluency, narrative language, etc. So, today I wanted to share how you...
Beach Theme Speech Therapy Tips for Targeting Multiple Goals
One of the many reasons I love themed therapy is that with one theme you can use all different books, activities, and materials to cover the wide range of ages and goals that so many of our caseloads entail. Not only does this create fun and relevant therapy for our...
Shark Week Speech Therapy Lesson Plan for Upper Elementary
It’s late Summer and you turn on the Discovery Channel. What do you find? Dun dun… dun dun… SHARK WEEK! Each summer, Shark Week mesmerizes everyone with wild stories and footage. What If we take shark week from Discovery Channel and make it into Shark Week Speech...
4 Speech Therapy Themes for Younger & Older Students
Themed therapy is a fun and efficient way to plan for engaging sessions while also targeting a variety of goals. While our caseloads are full of many different goals, they also entail a variety of ages and abilities. When planning your speech therapy themes, it’s...
5 Places to Find Themed Word Lists for Speech Therapy
I could honestly talk about themed therapy for hours upon hours. The advantages and the struggles. If you’re newer to the theme-based approach, you can learn about the “basics” in this blog post. Let’s say your sold on using a speech therapy themes and you’ve started...
Make a Speech Therapy Theme Calendar
I recently talked with a graduate student about managing a large caseload while also balancing school-based responsibilities-IEP meetings, evaluations, recess duty, and more. “How do you have time to plan?” My answer? Use a speech therapy theme calendar to streamline...
4th of July Speech Therapy Activities Ep 102
If you are working during the summer months planning a 4th of July themed unit for your speech therapy groups can be easy with all the ideas in this podcast episode! Your students probably celebrated so it's fresh on their minds. Today, you will get some great 4th of...
10 Themes Older Students in Speech Therapy Will Love
Keeping students engaged in activities is one of the most important factors in successful therapy. Anyone who works with older students knows that engagement can be extremely challenging. So, how can we keep our older students engaged? By using motivating material...
Pet-Themed Speech Therapy Activities
I’ve started to notice a pattern in my line of questions when I get to know a new student… who else lives at your home? Do you have any pets? This quickly starts a conversation about the pet they have, the pet they want, and/or the pets they cannot have. It made me...
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