Top 10 Reasons to be a School-based Speech Pathologist
I had not intended to work in the public schools. I actually fled teaching after a one year nightmarish career as a high school science teacher. The plan was that I would finish my…
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Bug Unit (April)
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I began April thinking that there were very few bug books that were appropriate for my students. Turns out I was wrong. I actually checked so many…
Plant unit (March)
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. For the month of March, I worked on a plant unit with my language students. My Life Skills students focused on Plant Bingo and the other grades worked…
Plant AAC Bingo
Going with the theme idea I have recently incorporated into my therapy, I am switching around circle time with my Life Skills students. I am working on basic vocabulary (this month with a plant theme)…
Therapy Thursday: Froggy Gets Dressed
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I’m attempting a new idea to stream-line my therapy preparations: month long themes. I know these are common in classrooms, but since I see most of my students…
The Boy Who Ssssssurvived
For my Harry Potter friends, Professor X has now supplied me with a list of /s/ practice sentences to accompany the Star Wars /s/ sentences. Harry Potter /s/ sentences! The Slytherin seeker was the first…
Ssssssstar Wars
My geeky Professor X created a great list of /s/ sentences for all my Star Wars loving students. If you have a child working on /s/ who loves Star Wars, have them practice these sentences…
Literature-based comprehension (reading and listening)
This is probably the BEST literature-based comprehension website I have ever seen to help me with my language disordered students (since I attempt to make my therapy literature based). It even comes with TONS of…
A Speech Therapist’s Review of The King’s Speech (updated)
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. My mother told me there was a movie out about a Speech Therapist and a king, and that it could win Academy Awards. So of course I begged…
Visual Schedule (Holiday Style)
I have spent a huge portion of my year thus far creating a new system for visual schedules. After beating our heads against the wall for the first month of school, our team decided to…
The Tale of the Turtle and the Rabbit
I have felt guilty about neglecting this blog this year. In previous years, I’d have a spare moment from time to time to update ideas about speech, my family, or a rhyming thought. This year…
Scheduling for Speech
Remember in High School when you could have sworn that your English teacher threw all those essays up his stair case. The ones that landed nearest the top step received “A”s, the next steps received…
Rory’s Story Cubes: Story Telling skills
I’ve been asked to review a game recently that I’m really excited about. Unlike some of the random review requests I’ve had, this one actually is a language tool for my students! Rory’s Story Cubes…
Therapy on an iphone.
No. Not that kind. The speech kind. 😉 I confess, I love my semi-iphone* more and more every day. *I inherited my mother’s disabled phone when she upgraded to the 3GS. So I have the…