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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…