Truth be told, while the start of a new school year is exciting, for therapists it’s often filled with endless meetings, paperwork, referrals, and the dreaded task of trying to create a schedule leaving you with little to no time to actually plan for the fun part…therapy! That’s why I am all for easy-to-use, ready-to-go, no prep activities! Here are some of…
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{Free} Halloween Interactive Book
Do you have your Halloween activities lined up and ready to go? Well, now you do! This {free} interactive book targets Halloween vocabulary, positional concepts, following directions wh-questions, yes/no questions, increasing MLU, and more! Download it now! To assemble: Cut along the dashed lines for all the pages except the last one. Cut out the pictures/squares. Laminate and bind the book. Place…
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7 Fall Speech Therapy Activities That Kids Will Love
You’ve made it through the first few weeks of therapy. Now what? Don’t worry! I’ve got you covered with some easy, LITTLE to NO PREP fall speech therapy ideas that your students will LOVE! 1. Fall Books. Books are one of my favorite therapy tools. You can use them over several weeks to target a wide variety of goals including…
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Fall Bingo Mini Games
Let’s be honest, between ARD meetings, therapy sessions, medicaid billing, paperwork, and staffings, sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to plan for therapy. On those days you just need an open-ended therapy activity that you can grab and go. That’s why I love ready-to-go, no prep bingo games so much! Bingo games are not only fun but…
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Back to School Speech Therapy Ideas You Can Use Right Now!
1. Books! I love incorporating books into my therapy sessions. They’re engaging and an easy way to target multiple objectives simultaneously. You can also stretch the same book out over a period of weeks, which makes lesson planning (and your life) so much easier. Here are a few beginning of the year books that our students enjoy: If You Take…
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A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Use Google Forms for Data Collection
Data collection. The two words that so often make therapists want to pull their hair out. I used to have sticky notes of every shape and size all over my therapy table that I would later tape into my paper data sheet. I would spend hours going through pages of data points on each objective. Then I would realize that…
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Easy Shark Week Ideas for Speech Therapy That Kids Will Love
My two boys LOVE Shark Week. They eagerly await for it to start every summer. I’m sharing some low-prep, easy Shark Week speech and OT activities that are perfect for co-treating and will make planning therapy a breeze. These Shark Week ideas will have your students working on their speech and OT skills without even realizing it! Whether you choose…
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March Speech and OT Activities & Ideas
There’s just something about the longer days, warmer temperatures, and all the flowers starting to bloom that makes you smile. We’re sharing some low-prep, easy March speech and OT activities that are perfect for co-treating and are sure to bring smiles to your therapy room! Here’s a peek into speech and motor groups and everything you need to plan out…
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5 Tips for Beginning Stuttering Therapy
Stuttering therapy can be hard! I went many years where I only had a student here and there with a fluency disorder. For a long time, I didn’t feel very confident in my skills and was unsure what to do. After guidance from a fellow SLP, attending stuttering conferences and diving into the research, my skill set and my confidence…
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BOOM Cards…for More Than Just Tele-therapy
Since many of us were thrown into the world of tele-therapy due to this crazy pandemic, by now you’re probably familiar with Boom Cards, but did you realize that they’re for more than just tele-therapy? I’ve been a school-based, speech-language pathologist for the past 16 years. I LOVE co-treating and crafting with my creative OT friends but coming up with…
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5 Must Do Tips for Teaching Kids How to Describe Items and Expand Their Utterances At the Same Time!
There’s nothing better than seeing that look on your student’s face when he (or she) realizes that he just produced that long, grammatically complete sentence filled with descriptive words that he’s been working on. Below are five simple but effective, research-based strategies that I use when teaching my students how to describe items and increase their oral and written language…
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Easy Ideas, Activities, and Resources for Working on Speech Therapy at Home!
I thought I would share some of the ideas, activities, and FREE resources that I send to my families for home practice! I know the thought of making and sending out home programs can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be! Modeling! Modeling correct sentence structure and articulation are SO important! Balance is needed though. At home, parents don’t…
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