It’s almost time to gobble up all that turkey, but before that happens, I’d love to let you take a peek at what I’ve been up to in my speech room! First of all, I’m hoping that you didn’t miss the Turkey Talk Blog Hop. I teamed up with Speechasaurus, The Speech Attic, and Speech…
Using core vocabulary with AAC users during your speech therapy session is an efficient and simple way to help build language in emergent communicators. Since core vocabulary is the most frequently used vocabulary in our language, it is wonderful because it can be used during ANY activity throughout the day. I have a number of…
Alright, I am finally ready to show you all what my Speech Room looks like! Step right on in for the grand tour of speech: This school year, I decided to go with a green, silver and black color theme. Okay, fine… a green, silver, black and SPARKLE color theme. By the time I had…
When I was fresh out of graduate school and very low on cash, I was pretty overwhelmed at my CFY position. I had multiple children with multiple needs, and not a whole lot of money to buy materials. (…Thank goodness for TPT…) I ran to Target and grabbed some Uno cards (Harry Potter- themed, naturally,…
Need some easy first day of speech therapy activities? The beginning of the school year can be exciting, stressful, chaotic, and everything else in-between! SLPs can make life a little bit easier during this busy time with these simple, but fun, first day activities for speech therapy. Back to School Tic Tac Toe Activity Create…
Welcome back, to those of you who read my first post in my new AAC series. While I’m certainly still in the learning process myself, I’ve decided to share my journey with you in the hopes that it will be helpful and make the jump into AAC seem less overwhelming. The first thing I did…
I’m sure as an SLP you have been in the position I was in earlier this summer. I was working with a patient who had a lisp. It wasn’t necessarily always interdental (i.e. tongue sticking through his teeth), but his /s/ and /z/ sounds just didn’t sound crisp. I am a bit of a perfectionist…
My kiddos and I had a TON of fun today playing with these extinct toys: Besides the amazing “roars” that my kids were making, I (sneakily) was also working on: 1) Location Concepts: Using the tree and various dinosaurs, I talked about where each one was. We targeted: in front of, behind, beside, next to,…