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6 Ways To Use Playdough in Speech Therapy
f you are a speech pathologist working with younger students, you probably have playdough in your room already! Playdough is a staple in my speech therapy room. My students love materials that they can touch and feel. I think this is why slime, kinetic sand, and...
Interactive Category Activities To Build Language
Have you had a student on your caseload with category goals? Do you feel limited with the amount of resources you have for teaching categories? Wonder where to start therapy? Incorporating interactive category activities to build language skills is a great way to...
“I Spy” Sensory Bin To Build Language
I am a BIG fan of hands on activities! Sometimes I think I need the hands on experience more than my speechies lol. Sensory bins have been a great way for me to incorporate speech and language goals in an engaging way. Today, I wanted to share how to make your own "I...
Articulation Reading Passages & Activities To Help With Generalization
Are you stuck with where how to get your student to generalize their speech sound? The student has it at the word and sentence level, but when they walk out of your room, they go straight back to their old speech sounds. I am right there currently with several...
What does play-based speech therapy look like?
If you work with younger-aged students, then planning play-based speech therapy sessions can help you save time with lesson plans and increase engagement with students! You can adapt toys to cover multiple goals, so you can use the toy in many of your sessions. I love...
How to Use a Toy Farm in Speech Therapy
Having toys in your therapy stash that you can use to cover multiple goals is the way to go when you are a busy SLP. Lesson planning is important for effective therapy, so knowing how to quickly utilize a toy to elicit speech and language targets is nice on those days...
Monster Sensory Bin for Speech Therapy
Do your students love talking about monsters? I know mine do! And there are so many books and activities you can use to cover lots of speech and language goals. Here are a couple of blog posts with ideas to use in your therapy sessions. If you have been following my...
Halloween Phonology with a Witch’s Brew!
It is fun to break away from traditional therapy activities and find ways to infuse the seasonal holidays into your articulation and phonology sessions. For Halloween, you can use so many props from the Dollar Tree or Target Dollar Spot to work on phonology goals in a...
Monster Speech Therapy Materials That Are Fun!
If you are new to planning therapy around themes, then you will love all the ideas in this blog post. Today, I am sharing about monster speech therapy materials that are fun for your students. I think you will like using them, too! To plan therapy around a...
10 ideas for using a pet hospital toy set in speech therapy
Playing with toy sets is one of the best ways for kids to interact with their environments and learn about the things around them without getting into things they shouldn’t. Even more so, kids love animals, which is why pet hospital toy sets can be such a great tool...
Using Popsicle Sticks in Speech Therapy
Some of my best therapy materials come from affordable things I can find at a dollar store. Have you used popsicle sticks in your speech therapy sessions? They can be a great material that can cover a lot of goals. And, let’s face it: So many of us don’t even get a...
What is the Traditional Therapy Approach?
Treating articulation disorders in the school setting is very common for the speech-language pathologist. Based on your state’s educational eligibility code, you may see students with articulation disorders on an Individual Educational Plan (IEP) or through a speech...
Setting Up Articulation Speech Folders For Students
Recently, I polled the SLPs that follow me on Instagram to see how many of us make individual student folders for our caseloads. It was a pretty even 50/50 split of speech pathologists that do make individual folders and those that don’t. I personally do not make...
Articulation Stations – Therapy Ideas to Keep Students Motivated
Raise your hand if you have students working on articulation in your therapy room! I think most SLPs can agree that we have a lot of those students either in a speech improvement program or on an IEP. It can be so tricky to help our articulation students make...
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