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The “Core Word and Letter of the Week” program was created to help your preschool, and early language learners communicate! This program makes lesson planning a breeze, gives you more time to focus on students, and helps you teach crucial language skills. You can see videos of these products in action here. Included in this download…
I use these “stories” every day in circle with my Life Skills students and then carry them into indiviudal therapy by matching/labeling/or identifying the key concept in the story I created. Rainbow Rabbit Hop, Hop, Hop is working on (insert drum roll) COLORS (insert shocked expression). I realize these seem really simple, but for my…
To go along with my “P” story, the following week was (obviously) Q week. My over-fried brain could come up with no other obvious thing to write about except a Queen. I considered putting my own picture in there in lieu of the Boardmaker Queen picture, but then decided to save that for some kind…
A few weeks ago I started supplementing my Letter of the Week in Circle time with a book. I tried to find books containing extremely basic concepts that were easily adaptable for low-tech Augmentative Communication. I wanted to focus on the vocabulary goals of my students: names, colors, shapes, toys, and foods. After briefly searching…
Have you ever had a student with almost no words but you knew that they had a lot to say? These are the students that fascinate me the most. I desperately want to know how to help them communicate something. But where do I start? There are thousands of words that I could try to…
Dear New State Park Managers (aka destroyers of family fun), Although my group of 60+ adoptive families has had an annual camping trip in your park for 26 years, apparently there are some new rules and management in place. We apologize that we did not get the memo and therefore made many infractions last week….
Ms. T walked into the class to observe and was a little shocked. She saw the speech pathologist singing and signing the alphabet to a group of students. The students were not singing back and only some were actively attending. A few were trying some of the signs. Ms. T wondered if this was the…
All long time ago and very, very far away from my current location, I got my first job as an SLP. In addition to many students in the general education setting, I served two severely impaired classrooms. In one class, the students spent much of the day on side liers being tube fed and given…
Circle time! Last month, I went through how I do circle time in my Kindergarten self-contained classroom. The students there are minimally or non-verbal. You can read the post here. Today, I am explaining how I do circle in my 1-3rd grade self-contained classroom. Most of these students have verbal skills and are speaking in…
Circle time is my baby. When I started my current job in 2002 and had one class of highly-impacted and self-contained students, I knew I wanted to lead the class in some way. Circle became my “thing”. I now serve three self-contained classes and do circle in each of them. Each classroom’s circle looks somewhat…
One of the best things that happened to my therapy was when the life skills teacher and I decided to implement the “letter of the week”. Since then, I have been designing speech materials that coordinate with the letter. It give me a great jumping off point for therapy! For example, I created 26 alphabet…
33% of my students with speech IEPs work on very basic 1-3 word utterances (verbally or non-verbally). One of the many ways that I work on their speech goals is to engage them with play-based speech therapy. What is play-based therapy? I use my own approach to therapy, loosely based on Floor Time. A box…
Three days each week I merge into my self-contained classes. Both of these classes use a “Letter of the Week” model to help their students learn the alphabet. Several years ago, I decided to take this to heart and build upon the week’s letter by incorporating several letter activities into my merge circle time. 1….
If you thought my six File Folder Songs would keep me satisfied for a while, then you were terribly wrong. Within days of completing those songs, I had created more. Many more. I just kept thinking ahead to the next letter of the week and what I wanted to sing with my life skills kids….
