In our early childhood center, we have a campus wide goal to improve the fine motor skills of our young students. Fine motor activities specifically benefit students in their handwriting and drawing abilities. Speech is the finest of the fine. Just imagine for a moment how intricately your tongue has to move to create the specific sounds needed for a simple sentence. Students with speech and language impairments often suffer from less than adequate fine motor abilities. As an early ... Read More about Free Halloween Speech Therapy Activities
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Motivating Preschoolers in Speech Therapy
Keeping preschoolers engaged for an entire speech therapy session can be challenging! Working in a preschool with speech therapy students doesn't have to be. Having spent many years in the adolescent and young adult school setting followed by geriatric, my initial impression of the early childhood population was unintelligible and unmanageable! I am by no means an expert at this point, but I have found a few verified ways to survive a three year old for thirty minutes. Keeping preschoolers ... Read More about Motivating Preschoolers in Speech Therapy
Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19
Do you celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day in your speech therapy room? It is something that I have just gotten into the last couple of years. My students absolutely love it so I will admit that I love it too! Any opportunity to dress up and send my students back to class wearing a pseudo costume is my idea of fun. My early childhood students (Pre-K and Kinder) especially enjoy the following activities: By the second month of school my kinders are ready to practice their scissor skills. We start ... Read More about Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19
Fresh Ideas for Speech Therapy: Spring
It is Spring in my speech room which is one of my favorite seasons. Spring weather is fresh and new which means therapy activities are colorful, bright and cheery. I love the idea of flowers, vegetable gardens, baby animals, and flying kites. My childhood memories are strong and vivid for this season. Some of these memories include Easter egg hunts, new fluffy dresses with tiny purses, bottle feeding newborn goats, blooming daffodils and kite flying contests. This article on Making Sure ... Read More about Fresh Ideas for Speech Therapy: Spring
‘Twas the last week of Speech Therapy…before Christmas Break
This week should go fast and furious...after all, FIVE days until Christmas break! Although we are in "break mode" Speech and Language therapy must go on...so I will be sharing what I'm doing in speech as often as I can this week. The category trains by Shelia Wenzlick were a BIG hit with my preschool and bilingual kinder boys as well as my intermediate level kids in the self-contained classroom. Here is a video scanning the activity after we started working on it: An ... Read More about ‘Twas the last week of Speech Therapy…before Christmas Break