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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...
Windsock Craft For Kids In Speech Therapy
During the spring and summer seasons, making a FUNctional craft in speech therapy that can be used outside is a great way to keep your students engaged. A windsock craft for kids can be adapted easily to cover a lot of goals. In addition, to all the goals you can...
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...
Play Themes for the Spring Months
One thing that I like to do when I plan lessons for play therapy is to consider the time of year. When we pick play activities that our students could be experiencing in their daily lives, we can give them functional practice on their speech and language goals that...
Ep. 35 How to Navigate Transitioning
Hey Hey SLPs! This week Felice shares how to navigate transitions in the SLP job world. Transitioning can sometimes feel very drastic because SLPs are in a very big field with a lot of wonderful opportunities. The song by Sarah Bareilles “Let the Rain” comes to mind...
10 ways to use an ice cream toy set in speech
When it comes to play therapy, we want to use toys that are relatable and motivating for our students. What kid doesn’t LOVE ice cream? Ice cream is a dessert that so many kids experience and enjoy, why not use it to target speech and language goals? An ice cream toy...
Ep. 34 Using Cooking for Your Preschool Push-In Lessons with Kristine
Hey Hey SLPs! In today’s episode, my guest, Kristine Lamb, will talk about how to implement cooking lessons into push-in services. Lesson planning for push-in services can feel very overwhelming for busy SLPs because it is difficult to find activities that cover a...
Plant Life Cycle Activities for Language Therapy
During the spring and summer months an easy theme you can use to cover goals for your younger and older students is the plant life cycle. When I was working with K-8 students, I would try and think of themes or activities that could be adapted for both age groups...
Ep. 33 Co-Treating for Self Regulation and Social Communication with Brittany and Allie
Hey Hey SLPs! In this week's episode my guests are Brittany and Allie from expressyourselfspeech.ca. This OT and SLP dynamic duo is known for co-creating for self-regulation and social communication. In today's episode, Brittany and Allie will guide SLPs on how to...
Using spring vocabulary to teach grammar
I think we can all say as speech pathologists that planning engaging therapy lessons that cover a lot of goals, and provide meaningful practice can be HARD to do. What if I told you that you could use spring vocabulary to target a LOT of grammar skills and do it for...
Ep. 32 How to Start Your Private Practice with Jena Castro-Casbon
Hey there SLPs! This week Felice talks to Jena Castro-Casbon about how to start your own private practice.The song ”Defying Gravity” from the musical Wicked reminds Jena of how we should stop accepting limits because someone says it's right. She says “Sometimes...
How to Conversational Recast with Grammar Therapy
We all want our therapy time with students to be as productive and effective as possible. Our therapy sessions fly by, and when you have mixed groups, you wonder if you even made a dent in helping a child make progress on their goals. That's not the best feeling....
Using Conversation Scripts to Teach Communication
Have you ever been in a session with a student that is struggling with navigating the components of the activity or conversation planned? As you begin implementing scaffolded prompts with the activity, you find that the child is needing a LOT of verbal and visual...
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