Today, you’re getting double the ideas for the price of one š I’m excited to share some ways you can use mini objects, aka trinkets, aka dinky doo dads, in speech, as well as, recycle some summer time items. There is something about these tiny, colorful items that just compels kids to dive in and interact. I’m not about to…
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I have said many times that a book is like an SLPs Swiss Army Knife, so many tools in one awesome package. If you want to see how I plan literacy base therapy you can read about it in this post. Books are so versatile, but when your library isn’t diverse in characters, authors, illustrators, and cultures you are limiting…
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Speech has always been a fun place for our kids. We get hands on, we play games ( with a purpose š), 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 in Speech Therapy? 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…
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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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I'm Sensing...Something...I think - The Speech Bubble
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I recently attended the ISHA conference and had the opportunity to attend a session about Sensory Processing Disorders ( SPD ) focusing on Sensory Integration. It was probably one of the most informative and engaging sessions I had every attended. This year, for me anyway, there was a drastic increa...
Using Word Clouds for Describing: Tagxedo Tutorial - The Speech Bubble
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I have a lot of students working on describing. I use the EET ( EET post ) in my room and is fantastic. But sometimes using the same organizer or writing a describing sentence is just not that engaging. I had heard about people using Word Clouds for various classroom activities but nothing for speec...
