Hands On Therapy Activities

Summer, Grilling and Speech Therapy

So, it's officially summer here in Texas.  No, I don't wait for the actual "First Day Of Summer" on the calendar.  It's summer in Texas when your thighs stick to your seats in your car.  Cue the fun summer themes in speech therapy!!  I found these adorable tin grills in the dollar spot of my… Continue reading Summer, Grilling and Speech Therapy

Themed Speech Therapy

Prehistoric Speech Therapy: A Dinosaur Craft

This week in speech therapy, our theme was dinosaurs. The past few years I have done the same craft. (You can find it here.) But this year, I wanted to do something a little different. I try to change up the craft year to year to keep things fresh. Speech therapy ROCKED this week with… Continue reading Prehistoric Speech Therapy: A Dinosaur Craft

Themed Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy Theme Review: Presidents and Money

During Presidents week, I modify my speech therapy lessons so that I can use {ALMOST} the same theme all week long.  I connect presidents to money for my younger clients.  For my older clients, we talk about presidents and money.  The little ones don't quite understand elections, voting and Presidents.  But they know what money… Continue reading Speech Therapy Theme Review: Presidents and Money

Parent Tips

Easy Ideas for Using Valentine Cards from a Speech Pathologist

Every year, I always have leftover Valentine cards. There’s 20 kids in the class but the Valentine card companies package the cards in quantities of 32.   I’m pretty sure it’s a conspiracy of some sort but I digress. Anyway, what should you do with those leftover cards? I have some ideas for you! That’s code… Continue reading Easy Ideas for Using Valentine Cards from a Speech Pathologist

Themed Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy Themes: Valentine’s Day

This week, we are all about hearts, pink, red and love in speech therapy. I have a few different books that I use in speech therapy during this week. There are so many great ones out there so it’s hard to pick just one. I can’t pick just one activity to use either. I have… Continue reading Speech Therapy Themes: Valentine’s Day

Hands On Therapy Activities

Using Mailboxes in Speech Therapy

We’ve all seen those cute little mailboxes in the Target Dollar Spot or our favorite dollar store. I know I walked by them a couple of years ago, not sure what I could do with it. Don’t worry…before I checked out, I walked back to pick up 3 (or maybe 5!) These little mailboxes are… Continue reading Using Mailboxes in Speech Therapy

SLP extras

Halloween’s Over! Now What Do I Do in Speech Therapy?!

Halloween fell on a Tuesday this year.  It kind of messed up my week.  My themes are each set for a whole week.  I don't know about you, but I feel weird doing Halloween activities on November 1st in speech therapy.  Thus, making my week very "unsymmetrical." (Did I seriously just use the word "thus"?!)  It's… Continue reading Halloween’s Over! Now What Do I Do in Speech Therapy?!

Articulation, Hands On Therapy Activities, Language, Parent Tips

Tips for Enriching Language with Halloween Candy!

It's Halloween!  It's probably #2 on the scale of "The Best Day of My Life" that every kid has.  And all you can think about is, "What the heck am I gonna do with all that candy?"   Well, you are in luck.  I just happen to think about writing this post just for parents (and SLPs)… Continue reading Tips for Enriching Language with Halloween Candy!

Themed Speech Therapy

More Spider Fun in Speech Therapy!

In speech therapy this week, we had our annual spiders theme.  You can catch my theme review here.  I added some new fun to the weekly plan this year!  So let's dive right in! Spider Book for Speech Therapy I added a new book to the lesson plans and I LOVED this book!  "Aaaarrgghh! Spider!"… Continue reading More Spider Fun in Speech Therapy!

Hands On Therapy Activities

Pizza Sensory Bin in Speech Therapy

I had previously written a post about our pizza theme for speech therapy.  There was a quick (code: terrible picture and description) of my sensory bin.  This year, I revamped it and made it better!  Since I improved it, I figured I would write a quick blog post about it with a freebie! I started… Continue reading Pizza Sensory Bin in Speech Therapy