All Aboard the Polar Express!
Note: Completely new and expanded product! Long, long ago (read: 2000) in a land far, far away (read: New England) my husband and I were on a downtown adventure to the new Border’s bookstore (read:…
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Baby, Baby….Gingerbread Baby
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links.ย Run, run, as fast as you can! You can’t catch me Cuz I’m Super Woman! I can jog in place, do jumping jacks, and run in circles…
Thanksgiving Word Searches
I’ve been a very busy girl this weekend! With the my Speech Club kids, we always do a “Wednesday Word Search”. We focus on higher level vocabulary and the speech sounds that the individual kids…
Frustrations (and Fluency)
Frustrations: 1. Although my fertility journey is over, I apparently still have a very difficult time being at an extended gathering with a group of pregnant women. Especially when they are talking about how “if…
Completely free AAC apps
A miracle occurred last spring. The voters in my area approved a bond which, among other things, updated the school district’s technology. ย The Speech Pathologists (clever and quick-to-act folks that we are) quickly jumped on…
Halloween Mad Libs at Speech Club
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Every single school day at 8:45 I wait to receive my “Speech Club” students. These are my older (3rd-5th grade) articulation students who need a small daily dose…
Conversation Circle
Although it isn’t the most natural way to talk, today I helped two students keep a conversation going for multiple turns. These students have extremely impacted social communication skills and both have goals to keep…
Did somebody say bacon?
Did I mention that I’ve gone Paleo? Never heard of it? Well, clearly you don’t live in the Pacific Northwest! It’s all the rage here. Although my husband has been talking about it for over…
I need to go to Chillville!
Do you ever need to chill out? I mean, just go out for a drink/pedicure/massage/yoga class? Yep. Same with some of my students. Except they may demonstrate the need with explosive behaviors. The sped teacher…
Super behaviors deserve super visuals
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Meet Super Woman. Just your average SLP (safety laminating person). Occasionally, I work on articulation, language and augmentative skills with kids. This year, however, I seem to spend…
Pumpkin Bingo
I have been searching for great FREE clipart recently and have created a whole board on Pinterest devoted to my finds (Pinterest is my new and improved way of bookmarking things). Today I found some…
S- blends games
I created these games to use with my young students working through the cycles articulation program. They could be used for any s-blends students. I really like to take the spring flowers game out around…
A binder based schedule and work system (say that 10x fast!)
Fellow School-based SLPs/ Parents/ Teachers/ Etc… do you any of you ever wonder if your job is transforming from SPEECH Pathologist to behavior specialist? I sure do. It takes up a large portion of my…
Letter of the week stories
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,…