Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. In my speech therapy room, I take this opportunity to pre-teach vocabulary related to spring and recycling during the month of April. We read Our Great Earth by Francis X. Murphy. (Affiliate link) While reading the book, we made an anchor chart to hang in our room. My students were able…
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With Spring’s arrival, Winter activities are put away and the next file cabinet is opened in my speech therapy room. I try to keep up with the themes of our prekindergarten and kindergarten teams. If possible, I pre-teach the vocabulary that I know they will be discussing in the upcoming weeks. The first set of vocabulary I focused on this…
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In a post-holiday therapy slump? One way to fight the winter blues of cloudy days and indoor recess is to pull out unique activities and games for speech therapy! There is an entire month between Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Why not enjoy it instead of rushing straight to the chocolate hearts and lace? Our students with language impairments need the…
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One way to improve productivity in the SNF is to plan one activity for an entire day and modify it to meet your patients’ specific needs. Type up a template for the activity and copy, paste and edit it based on the goals that you target for each patient. Something we started at my SNF several years ago was having…
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Using functional communication in speech therapy is something I strive for with my students who have severe and profound communication deficits. I have started doing speech therapy once a week during the regularly scheduled “snack time” in my Life Skills classroom. In that classroom, I have students in first through third grades who are non verbal or limited in their…
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