If you happen to walk into my speech room and find me playing go fish with two or three students, please know that we ARE doing something related to their IEP, not just playing games. Today I played go fish for the first time in a LOOOOOONG time. I mean, like years. When I worked in a school servicing older…
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Today in Speech Therapy: Verb and Pronoun Bingo
Today I visited one of my self contained classrooms to see a few kids who have a variety of goals to work on. Some of them work on simply participating in an activity with peers, attending to an activity, tolerating others near them and so on. Other students may have goals that target using pronouns, action words, constructing simple sentences,…
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Target Final Sounds and Asking WHO Questions
For several of my groups in speech therapy today, I used the Penguin and Polar Bear “I have, who has” Game by Jennifer Drake at Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten. Jennifer’s free version targets the short ‘a’ sound, but we used it to work on articulation, ending sounds, asking “who” questions and formulating sentences with “I have”. The game is played by…
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What’s Outside My Door: January
Last month, I talked about the wonderful idea that my friend the reading specialist gave me to put things outside my speech room door for the teachers to use while their students are waiting in line for the bathroom. This month, I downloaded Snowy WH Questions from Kristine Lamb at Live Love Speech and placed them in pockets on a…
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Cognitive Activity using Peg Board for Speech Therapy in SNF
As a SLP, I work PRN providing speech therapy for a company that contracts into nursing homes/SNFs. Our patient caseload is heavily weighted for cognitive therapy specifically memory, problem solving, sequencing, and attention. These qualities are ALL necessary for a patient to complete simple ADLs (activities of daily living) such as eating, brushing their teeth, getting dressed as well as…
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