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 scoffing at presenters who tell me that I need to take on yet ANOTHER responsibility. Isn’t the SLP’s scope of… Read more
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5 ways to teach the alphabet to early language learners
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… Read more
Learning core words- one letter at a time
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… Read more
A-Z Alphabet Books for Me!
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… Read more
Alphabet Based Concepts for Learning Language
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…. Read more
Super Sack!
Alternately known as the: Awesome Bag Beautiful Bag Cute Sack Darn-good Bag Excellent Sack Bag of Fun Bag of Goodness Bag of Happiness Incredible Bag Bag of Joy Kind Bag Bag of Love Mighty Sack New Stuff Sack Overly Outrageous Bag Precious Bag Quintessential Bag Really Radical Sack…. To spruce up my circle times in… Read more
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, Hop is working on (insert drum roll) COLORS (insert shocked expression). I realize these seem really simple, but for my… Read more
Letter of the Week Stories Q
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… Read more
How to tick off a Speech Pathologist
I recently decided I want to homeschool-preschool my daughter. You know, while I’m working full time. Cuz that’ll be super easy. So yesterday I bought $10 worth of materials for her to master at-home while I’m at work and Professor X is resting. These materials included a bright and fun ABC poster. (I also figured… Read more
SuperHero ABC
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I am taking a temporary break from “SpEd sucks in May” blogging hiatus to tell you about a fabulous book. A book so awesome that I used it to successfully bribe work out of the most brilliant student with whom I’ve ever worked. Wow. Blogging breaks obviously… Read more
D is for Dragon Dance
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. D is for Dragon Dance Gong Hay Fat Choy! In celebration of this holiday, read through D is for Dragon Dance, a Chinese New Year’s Alphabet. Speech Therapy Ideas: 1. Use this book as a way to learn some great new vocabulary. My children and I found… Read more
A is for Apple song
I made this song board with Boardmaker software. The song is my favorite Cookie Monster song with a twist. I sing this song with my students for their “letter of the week” as well as at home with my daughter (who is currently learning her alphabet). Ahem… (warming up my voice now) A is for… Read more
Leap Frog Letters
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I bought my FIRST set of Leap Frog Fridge Phonics when my son was about one years old. Very quickly I discovered what a great teaching resource these were and bought another set for my school. Since then I have convinced numerous teachers and parents to invest in… Read more