Speech has always been a fun place for our kids. We get hands on, we play games ( with a purpose 😉), we build skills through so many different ways. Sometimes our kids, as well as us, need a change though, so why not a field trip?! A virtual field trip lets you shake things up without having to file…
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What is ‘errorless learning’? Errorless learning is an instructional strategy that is used to prevent a child from making mistakes while learning a new skill. It provides a highly structured environment with the outcome of learning a specific skill or task. The goal is for a high number of positive repetitions independently by the student. I can hear you now,…
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Teletherapy, distance learning, and remote learning are the new buzz words these days. Since in person speech therapy isn’t possible right now, our profession has made a shift to the virtual realum of service delivery, basically overnight! Thanks to Teachers pay Teachers, BOOM Cards, and more the whole ‘what the heck am I going to use for materials’ part of…
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Things have changed fast thanks to COVID-19. SLPs continue to do what we SLPs do best, roll with it. This means putting together packets for families, assigning digital materials to Google Classrooms, and planning for teletherapy sessions. With this new style of therapy, I can’t run to the copier ( pray that it wasn’t jammed ) and copy the handful…
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Recently I came across some Yeti games, and then some Yeti books, and then some Yeti clipart…and down the rabbit hole I went. I loved the idea of have a theme that didn’t necessarily have to tie to a specific holiday or month and was different from the typical winter and snowman topics that our kids have done for years….
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Back to school, apples, pumpkins, Halloween, Fall, Thanksgiving, turkey, Christmas, Hanukah, winter, snowmen…the beginning of the year is packed with themes and ideas for therapy. Then, February has Valentine’s Day, March has St. Patrick’s Day and so on…but what about January? By the time you get back to school the New Year has had its moment and is done. There…
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