Getting organized for play-based speech therapy
33% of my students with speech IEPs work on very basic 1-3 word utterances (verbally or non-verbally). One of the many ways that I work on their speech goals is to engage them with play-based…
Boardmaker
Expanding Sentences and Vocabulary
I love my expanding non-traditional Picture Exchange therapy! I love it when I get to work with my life skills kiddos on adding descriptive words to toys that they already enjoy. And then even adding…
Gingerbread Man Under and Over
Chapel Hill Snippets makes the best basic concepts books. I love using them with my Life Skills students, so I decided to return the favor (thank you Ruth!!!). Oh, and you can benefit too I…
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…
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…
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…
Letter of the week stories "P"
A few weeks ago I started supplementing my Letter of the Week in Circle time with a book. I tried to find books containing extremely basic concepts that were easily adaptable for low-tech Augmentative Communication….
No Boardmaker? No problem!
Due to a nasty combination of old laptops in our district, plus old Boardmaker CDs that are somewhat incompatible with said laptops, many special educators in my district have given up on trying to use…
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)…
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 Grouchy Ladybug
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Ever wake up grouchy? Really , really grouchy? Like, say when your alarm goes off at 5:40am after having the luxury of sleeping in for a week? That’s…
A story
I know that I said all Wordless Wednesdays this month would be about Sign Language…but I think the class I was going to teach will be canceled (due to lack of enrollment). 🙁 So I…