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Spring Play-Based Speech Therapy Activities
When you are planning sessions for your preschool through second-grade students, consider the time of the year! When you pick toys and activities that your students experience in their daily lives, you give them functional practice their goals! Today, you will learn...
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.
The BEST Spring YouTube Videos for Speech
Let's be real. We all wished we were a little more organized, but there are just seasons in the SLP life when you have 100 million tabs open on your computer, you have piles of materials next to your desk, and IEPs written an hour before the meeting. When you are in...
Lucky Green Sensory Bin for Speech
Do you need a St. Patrick's Day speech therapy activity that will cover many goals and be adaptable for ages? You can use this easy-to-make lucky green sensory bin for younger and older students. Don’t you love it when you have materials that can be used across many...
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...
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...
Spring Speech and Language Activities Prek-5th
If you work with preschool through 5th grade, you are gonna love this blog post! Today, I am sharing spring speech and language activities you can use with your entire elementary caseload. This will help you plan more efficiently for your spring speech therapy lesson...
EP 93 speech therapy schedule tips for how to get the most out of the day
If you have ended your day as a school-based SLP and wondered, “What the heck did I do all day?” you are not alone. Between high caseloads, speech therapy referrals coming in every other day, and trying to see all your students on your speech therapy schedule, it...
How to Use Zingo in Speech Therapy
When working with students in mixed groups, it's great to pull out games for speech therapy sessions. We often use board games as a reinforcer for practicing a goal. You know the typical way of rolling the die, practicing their goal, moving their game piece, and then...
Speech Therapy TH Sound Ideas
Working on the TH sound in speech can feel challenging. It can be tricky to think of motivating words with the voiced and voiceless TH sounds. These sounds, though, occur so frequently in our language! Just re-read those first three sentences… so many TH sounds! We...
Syllable Level Articulation Visual Cue Sheet
We've all heard or said, "walk before you run!" As SLPs, we know it's the same for speech. We learn to say smaller syllables like "sah" or smaller words like "sat" before we say multisyllabic words like "Saturday." It's that golden ladder speech sound hierarchy that...
January Speech Therapy Themes
When planning by themes for your elementary speech therapy caseload, knowing which theme to use can cause indecisiveness. When we are trying to decide which way to go with themes, it leaves us wasting time and procrastinating therapy planning. So, I am sharing a GIANT...
Graphic Organizer for Sentence Structure
One of the best ways to work on sentence formulation with your students is with graphic organizers. When you have a sentence structure graphic organizer that is easy to adapt across a lot of different activities, it makes language therapy planning easier! Today, I...
Sneezy the Snowman Activities
When January hits, it's time to pull out the Sneezy the Snowman book in your speech therapy sessions. You can target synonyms, s-blends, CORE words, sequencing skills, and story elements, to name a few skills! If you are doing a snowman theme with your elementary...
Best Speech Therapy Toys for Early Elementary
As speech-language pathologists, we LOVE to use toys to work on speech and language goals. Today, I want to share the best speech therapy toys to use with your early elementary students. Having speech therapy toys that are easy to adapt helps you plan more for many...
Christmas Tree Craft for Speech Therapy
In December, pulling out some festive activities with your speech therapy groups is fun. If your students celebrate Christmas and need mixed group holiday activities, you will love this Christmas tree craft for speech therapy. It's easy to make and can be sent home as...
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