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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Twas the last week of Speech: Day Three
It’s the last week of speech before Christmas break and today was the day to just have a ball (ornament pun)… So we got out the iPad once again and got busy talking about Santa’s Hair with this language companion from Heather Strebel. You can visit her blog HERE. We used the Toca Boca version of the Santa Hair Salon but…
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‘Twas the last week of Speech: Day Two
Counting down! Four more days to Christmas Break… Today I decided to get technologically coooool. After all, kids LOVE technology. I just rarely find time to really get it into my therapy sessions. After downloading this Christmas Attributes Freebie by Kim Lewis the Activity Tailor from Creative Common Attribution, I hesitated a couple of weeks…..but I said HEY! It’s the last week…
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What’s outside my classroom for Christmas? A WH question tree of course!
I am fortunate enough to have a classroom right next to the bathrooms. This placement potential is huge I tell ya! The teachers I work with are so dedicated to their instruction time that they use any transition time as an additional learning opportunity. My first year on this campus, our reading specialist had a word wall outside my door….
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