Literacy Interventions in Speech Therapy
Speech pathologists have an important role to play in literacy instruciton. Unfortunately, my graduate program never taught me what that role was or what to do about it. So…I have spent at least a decade…
Articulation
Best Practice for Articulation
I don’t know about your speech pathology program, but I really wish I had taken a good evidence-based course in speech sound disorder treatment. When I accidentally fell into the role of school-based SLP, I…
Can you say “S” without front teeth?
Occasionally I have a parent or teacher that worries once a child’s front teeth fall out, that the child will no longer be able to produce the “s” sound. Alternately, I have a child who…
How to teach initial R in 10 easy steps!
Do you ever work on initial /r/ with your students? Yep! Me too! Almost every. single. day. And you know what? Most of my kids master initial /r/ย in ten sessions or less! How? I read…
Literacy and the SLP
At a recent IEP meeting, a parent told me how her daughter loves to play school at home. She practices “reading” books to her stuffed animals and siblings. This student both has poor articulation and…
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It’s snowing! (no… it’s not)
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. In my area it snows very rarely. I think maybe last winter we had a few flakes and zero snow days. But every once in a while we get…
The Stranger
Update: This unit was comletely revised 6/2015. It’s now better than ever!! Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. The Stranger is by one of my all time favorite author/illustrators, Chris Van Allsburg (author of…
A Virtual Vacation in Speech
Don’t hate me. My students still haven’t started school. In fact, they won’t start until a few days AFTER Labor Day. My own children (in the district next to where I work) will be two…
The Three Snow Bears
I absolutely adore Jan Brett stories. The illustrations, vocabulary, and story make them top notch. Not surprisingly, I have developed many Speech Therapy Book Companions to go with her books. I decided a few months…
Pretend Language
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Why do we pretend? Why imagine beyond the here, now, and yesterday when talking? Kim has a fabulous post all about the benefits of pretend play on early language…
January Speech Lesson Plans 2015
Hurray! Only one more week of school before winter break! But that means…. time to start planning for January NOW! Here’s what I’ll be doing in January. Feel free to download my FREE lesson plans…
5 Tips for Running a Multi-sound Articulation Group
It is very, very rarely that I get a group of articulation students who are all working on the same sound. However, many materials out there are made for exactly that! One activity. One sound….
The Speech Club solution to articulation therapy!
Have you ever had a 12 year old who has been working on /r/ in sentences and carry-over for years? Have you ever had a 10 year old who says that speech games are…