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…
Letter of the Week
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…
Circle Time in a Minimally Verbal Classroom #3
All long time ago and very, very far away from my current location, I got my first job as an SLP. In addition to many students in the general education setting, I served two severely…
Circle Time in a Minimially Verbal Classroom #2
Circle time! Last month, I went through how I do circle time in my Kindergarten self-contained classroom. The students there are minimally or non-verbal. You can read the post here. Today, I am explaining how…
Circle Time in a Minimally Verbal Classroom #1
Circle time is my baby. When I started my current job in 2002 and had one class of highly-impacted and self-contained students, I knew I wanted to lead the class in some way. Circle became…
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…
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….
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…