SLPs often address idioms in speech therapy! In this blog post, I’ll share some creative ways to teach and work on this figurative language skill in speech and language. I am also providing a list of idioms that you can use right now in your speech therapy session! Figurative Language Types Idioms are a type…
Looking for speech therapy games to motivate your upper elementary school students? This age range is past the “babyish” stage, but most upper elementary school students definitely still love PLAYING while working on speech and language goals! Games don’t just need to be reserved for your preschoolers! Games can help keep our older students motivated…
Speech therapy articulation activities that will engage older students can be a little more difficult to find. If you’re on the hunt for articulation activities that won’t have your older speech therapy students rolling their eyes, keep on reading! Some Older Students Feel Like They’ve Been in Speech Therapy for… forever When you’re working with…
These semantic relationships speech therapy worksheets make it simple to work on this skill. They are absolutely perfect for upper elementary or middle school speech therapy students who need to work on semantic relationships, and involve no prep- making them quick and easy to use during a busy day! In this blog post, I’ll share…
Are you an SLP trying to work on following complex directions in speech therapy with your older students? Teaching 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders the importance of listening closely to spoken instructions has been an area I have consistently focused on in speech and language therapy. This is such an important classroom – and life-…
grammar and syntax speech therapy ideas
TWO. EXHAUSTING. MONTHS. It all started when I sat down and started thinking about how often I hear in IEP meetings: this student struggles with reading comprehension. Now, I WAS working on comprehension goals, but I felt like I needed to dig deeper. What SPECIFIC areas of language could I target that would best help…