How can you not celebrate "Read Across America" and Dr. Seuss's birthday in speech therapy?! I use books EVERY week in my speech therapy sessions! I love to hear which Dr. Seuss's books are favorites of the kids. I introduced 2 new ones to my lesson plans this year...no, make that THREE new books!!! Let's… Continue reading Speech Therapy Theme Review: Dr. Seuss
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Speech Therapy Theme: Dr. Seuss
How can you not celebrate "Read Across America" and Dr. Seuss's birthday in speech therapy?! I use books EVERY week in my speech therapy sessions! I love to hear which Dr. Seuss's books are favorites of the kids. I introduced 2 new ones to my lesson plans this year...no, make that THREE new books!!! Let's… Continue reading Speech Therapy Theme: Dr. Seuss
Speech Therapy Theme Review: Community Helpers Part 4
My community helpers theme in speech therapy came to an end last week. I could seriously have done another 2 weeks of professions! But Valentine's and President's Day need my attention too! We finished up our theme with dentists. Depending on the session and what I felt we needed to accomplish, some clients heard the second book and some did… Continue reading Speech Therapy Theme Review: Community Helpers Part 4
Speech Therapy Theme Review: Community Helpers Part 2
We started our week in speech therapy with firefighters and ended with police officers. My articulation clients were able to get in LOTS of repetitions with our activities. I heard lots of spontenous language from my preschool clients and great topic maintenance/elaboration from my school age kids. Overall, last week was a win in speech… Continue reading Speech Therapy Theme Review: Community Helpers Part 2
Community Helpers in Speech Therapy: Police
We started our week in speech therapy with firefighters and ended with police officers. My articulation clients were able to get in LOTS of repetitions with our activities. I heard lots of spontaneous language from my preschool clients and great topic maintenance/elaboration from my school age kids. Overall, last week was a win in speech… Continue reading Community Helpers in Speech Therapy: Police
Speech Therapy Theme Review: Community Helpers Part 1
Community helpers is a great theme for speech therapy. You could easily turn it into a month long theme full of activities, games and books! I usually stretch it over 2 weeks if I can. Since I do so much during this theme, I turned this post into a 4 part series. We started our theme with… Continue reading Speech Therapy Theme Review: Community Helpers Part 1
Community Helpers in Speech Therapy: Firefighters
Community helpers is a great theme for speech therapy. You could easily turn it into a month long theme full of activities, games and books! I usually stretch it over 2 weeks if I can. Since I do so much during this theme, I turned this post into a 4 part series. We started our theme with… Continue reading Community Helpers in Speech Therapy: Firefighters
Easy Fridge Fun for Language Skills
If you have kids at home, chances are good they are constantly in the fridge! Why not turn the fridge into a "language hub?" We have a set of alphabet magnets on our fridge. Both of my kids (15 and 10) love to create new phrases with the letters. They have to get creative with… Continue reading Easy Fridge Fun for Language Skills
Speech Therapy Theme Review: Basketball
It's January but it's also known as basketball season at my house. So I thought it would be fun to have basketball theme in my speech therapy sessions! You could easily use this theme anytime from November to May! The best part is you don't have to know anything about basketball to use this theme.… Continue reading Speech Therapy Theme Review: Basketball
Winter Fun To Promote Language
Winter is cold. It's dreary. In the south, it takes way too long to get to spring! (Can you tell I don't care for winter?) But the good thing is winter does lend itself to some pretty fun sensory activities that promote language! There's just something about playing a bin of snow (fake or real),… Continue reading Winter Fun To Promote Language
