My Fluency Favorites

March 2, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Materials ~ Leave a Comment

Jenna over at Speech Room News is hosting another fantastic linky party. I love these because they are great reference pages when I need more therapy ideas on a specific topic. This time, it’s fluency!

Click here to see Jenna’s post and check out other bloggers’ posts!

My fluency favorites are below:

1) My Mega Fluency Packet

This packet is actually my number one best seller in my Teachers Pay Teachers store… and I really love it! It includes tons of visuals, activities, homework, assessment pages, etc… Check out my blog post about it here or click here to see it in my store!

2) Color Me Fluent

I’ve always thought Color Me Fluent is a really child friendly way to approach fluency. Definitely worth checking out if you haven’t already. Click here to see it from Super Duper!

3) Fluency Tools Treatment Packet by Busy Bee Speech

I love thinking of fluency techniques as “tools” for our students, and this product does just that! Click here to see it in the Busy Bee Speech store!

4) My Fluency Bingo Game

Last, I love my Fluency Bingo for increasing utterance length of our students with fluency goals! Click here to check it out in my TpT store!

Those are my four fluency favorites! Hope you saw some new things! Click here or on the image above to go back to Jenna’s post to read all of the other fluency idea from other bloggers!

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What’s In Your Cart Linky

February 24, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Uncategorized ~ 2 Comments

I cannot wait for the upcoming Teachers Pay Teachers sale. Up to 28% off my favorite speech sellers?! Yes. Please.

Below are my recommendations from my store for this sale. Just click on each image to see the item on TpT.

{MY CRAFTIVITIES}

Craftivities are my new speech room favorite. I’ve made packets containing step by step books/pictures with real pictures, communication boards, worksheets and tons more!

{NEW PRODUCTS}

There are my other new/seasonal products you may be interested in!

{OTHER SELLERS}

Below are my must buy recommendations from other sellers on TpT:

Articulation Booklets from Busy Bee Speech: These are so, so, so fun and great for kids working on carryover!

What Do You Know About /r/? from Sublime Speech: These cards are so much more fun than straight drill, but I’ve found I can get a ton of trials in with them as well.

Language Candy Board Games from The Speech Bubble: When things get crazy, I love easy pull and go activities like this!

Candy Math Word Problems for Language Disorders: So many of my students struggle with math because they don’t understand the language! This has been a huge help.

I’m sure I’ll find 100 things I want before checking out!! To see what other SLP bloggers have in their carts, click here to see the linky at Speech Room News.

Interactive Visuals for Guessing Games, Describing, and Inferencing

February 23, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Materials, Therapy Ideas ~ Leave a Comment

How many of you use Hedbanz or Jeepers Peepers in therapy? They are both amazing games but can sometimes be challenging for some of my language/ASD kiddos! I feel like I spend so much time prompting and prompting and prompting. I knew there had to be an easier way, but I had trouble finding an appropriate visual for them online. So I made my own! If you feel the same way, or want your students to be more independent when playing this game, this product is for you!

What I wanted out of a visual was something interactive. Something my kids could use themselves, even the nonreaders. Click here to check it out in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

This product contains:
-1 category page

-12 subcategory pages (similar to the one shown below)

-Yes/no page (for sorting and storing icons)

Note: When I say “page” above, I am referring to two pages, that once assembled combine into one. One page is the storage/question strip page and the other contains the symbols.
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To Use: Begin with the first categories page and the yes/no page. Prompt the student to pick a category icon and move it to the sentence strip at the top of the page. Have the student read the question out loud.

If the question is answered with “yes” move the card to the Yes side of the page and vis versa. This page will help those students who have difficulty remembering or putting together information they have gained from previous questions. After the student knows the category of their card, give them a subcategory page. For example, when they know it is an animal, give them the page that says “It is an animal” on the top. This second page will help them uncover more details about their animal.

To work on describing, pick an icon and have the child find the category and then describe it using the icons on the subcategory page. I have them do this using the yes/no page again, describing what something is and isn’t.

For inference, the SLP can fill the yes/no page and have the child guess what object they are thinking of! Provide picture options as needed. I like to lay out three cards from Hedbanz and fill the yes/no page. Then, the student can choose the appropriate card and explain why they picked it.

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This game is perfect for students who use AAC, who have difficulty formulating questions or recalling information, who have ASD, our language kiddos and other students that you are trying to fade off of prompts during these fun guessing games!
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Curious how it works? Download the preview and get the first 2 pages (for asking about the category) FOR FREE!

This game does require assembly, lamination, and Velcro. Or, you can use page protectors and dry erase markers to circle/cross off choices.

Speechy Musings does not own the right to Hedbanz, Jeepers Peepers, or 20 Questions and is in no way sponsored by these companies.

{CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE PRODUCT FROM MY TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS STORE!}

Spring Themed Speech and Language Packet

February 8, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Articulation, Materials ~ Leave a Comment

SO SO excited to share my latest mega themed packet with you. I know it definitely doesn’t look like spring around here (in Wisconsin) but I always love prepping my packets ahead of time, and spring will be here before we know it! Click the image below to skip right to my TpT store!

Before I describe my spring packet, I should put a plug in for my bundle. This bundle includes every mega themed packet I have. Currently it contains one for Back to School, Fall, Winter, and Spring. As I continue to add packets, I will update this bundle for free. That means you pay the price now, and get future updates for nothing! Click the image below to check out the bundle:

Below is a short description of what my spring packet contains:

-Spring Themed Bingo
5 Bingo Boards, 16 Description Cards, 16 Picture Cards
Use the Bingo Picture Cards and match them to the Description Cards to target spring themed vocabulary words!

-Spring Themed Barrier Games
3 Picture Scenes, 1 page of item pictures, 1 page of instructions
Students should sit around a table with a barrier between them. Books, file folders, or binders work well as barriers. Every player should have the same background and items. The players take turns giving the other players specific directions on how to arrange the materials in front of them. The goal of the game is to have all the players’ materials look the same at the end of the activity.

-Spring Board Games
1 in black and white; 1 in color. You can use the black and white one as a do-a-dot if preferred.

-Spring Do-a-Dot Sheets (3)
Great reinforcers for any goal!

-Spring Conversation Cards
16 flower pot cards with fun questions to discuss spring!

-Spring Black and White Homework/Worksheets

Roll-a-Word (2): Write four articulation words in the boxes at the top. Have your students roll a die and cross them off as they say each word.

Make it Rain/Make a Bouquet: Cut and glue activities that are perfect for articulation practice & homework. Write a word on each item beforehand.

100 Worksheet: A fun lily pad worksheet to challenge your students to get 100 trials.
Favorite Spring Things: Two worksheets (one with only drawing) for your students to write/draw their favorite spring things.

My Spring Weekend/Break: A fun worksheet for your students to sequence, draw, and write about their spring weekend/break.

Color the Spring Scene: 2 receptive language worksheets with directions.

Bubble Chart Describing: Fill in each bubble with a descriptor of various spring items.

-Spring Themed Books Booklist
Contains 5 books with a spring theme. Print and send home as ideas for home, or use in your speech room!

-Build A Sentence
Arrange the cards on the included mat to form spring themed sentences. Great for practicing WH questions as well.

-Spring Themed Non-Fiction Fact Cards
Incorporate fun spring facts with these comprehension cards. At the bottom of each card are comprehension questions to assess your students’ understanding of the passage! Includes a blank page of cards for your customization.

Activities with Visuals:

Spring Vocabulary
Use this to preteach related vocabulary words and send home to parents for great carryover/vocabulary ideas.

2) All About Spring Story with Visuals

3) Spring Question Cards with Visual Answer Choices
After reading the story with visuals, have your students answer the question cards using the visual answer choices.

4) Spring File Folder Sort
Laminate and cut the picture cards from page 69. Velcro onto the spaces on the appropriate pages. Faded symbols are shown where each symbol should be attached for your convenience. Affix pages to a file folder if desired. Great for practicing complete sentences and asking/answering questions. One page asks, “What happens in the spring?” with a sentence answer strip that says, “______ happens in the spring.” The other page asks, “What does not happen in the spring?” with a sentence answer strip that says, “_______ does not ______ in the spring.” All of the activities in this section have visuals like in the first preview picture!

Phew! Hopefully there are activities for nearly EVERY child on your caseload! If you have any questions, email me at speechymusings@gmail.com.

If you’re interested in this packet, you can purchase it in my TpT Store here.

I appreciate you.

January 29, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Fun Stuff ~ 2 Comments

Just wanted to take a minute to say that even on those hard days, you are SO appreciated!

I love the entire blogging community, both readers and fellow bloggers, and don’t know what I’d do without every one of you! We do important work!

Thank you so much for reading Speechy Musings!

FREE Data Sheets Round-Up

January 28, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Freebies, Materials ~ 4 Comments

This semester I’m trying to revamp how I take and keep data! To do this, I searched and searched through Teachers Pay Teachers for data sheets by other SLPs! Always great when you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. I found tons and tons of great, FREE data sheets and thought I’d share my collection with all of you!

Because I’m so new, I plan to print and use several of these to see which I like best!

Just click on any picture below to be taken to the site to download the data sheet!

Busy Bee Speech (includes FIVE different sheets)

Speech Time Fun

Crazy Speech World

Carrie’s Speech Corner

The Speech Bubble

Simply Speech

Super Power Speech (editable in Word)

Allison’s Speech Peeps

Speech Room News (editable in Word)

Let’s Talk Speech Therapy (for 5 minute kids)

Let’s Talk Speech Language Pathology

Hope that helps! Anything I missed? What’s your favorite?

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Practicum Organizational Freebie

January 24, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Freebies, Graduate School, Materials ~ 1 Comment

This semester at my school externship I wanted an easy to way to stay organized, learn each student quickly, and keep track of everything!! Those of you die hard Speechy Musings fans may remember my organizational freebie that I uploaded a while ago! I do love, love, love the pages I made for that freebie, but I needed a few extras to stay organized at my school!

Cue the Practicum Organizational Freebie!! This is perfect for those graduate students out there, or SLPs who supervise graduate students!! Download it here.

Included is:

-Binder cover sheet

-Clockhours spreadsheet

-Student information sheets

-A weekly planner/organizer

-Schedule sheets for each day of the week

To check out my original Organizational Kit Freebie which has tons of more useful, organizational printables I’m sure you could use, click here!

Click here to download the practicum freebie!

Thanks so much for reading. Hope these pages are useful for you!

Love It & List It Linky: Social Skills Materials

January 24, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Uncategorized ~ 3 Comments

Jenna over at Speech Room News is hosting another fabulous Love It & List It Linky Party!! This time it’s for our favorite social skill materials! I absolutely cannot wait to see what other bloggers and readers recommend.

Below are my absolute favorite materials for social skills:

(1) Buddy Talk

Buddy Talk is great for conversation starters, even for those hard to engage teenagers!! Very portable!

(2) All About Social Skills – Packet One

This is a packet I created recently. I plan to make similar ones targeting other social skills in the future, but I love using social stories and activities to teach social skills, hence why I made this packet!

(3) Apps

I couldn’t pick just one, so I picked two. My favorites are Conversation Therappy (Tactus Therapy) and Conversation Builder (Mobile Education Store). Click on the images above to check out each.

(4) Elephant and Piggie Books

So many of these books talk about important social skills in an easy to understand and hilarious way! Click here to check out an old post I wrote about these books and to see some recommendations for speech therapy! These have to be my all time, absolute favorite thing to do in speech therapy, so if you don’t own these books, check out the ones above!! You will not be sorry!!

Not to toot my own horn, but I’m pretty proud of the social skills materials I have in my TpT store, and use them often! Check out each of them below. Just click on the picture to check them out in my store or click here to see all of them!

Thanks for reading! To head on over (or back) to Jenna’s party, just click here. There, you’ll be able to see tons of other blog posts!

Articulation Carnival App Review

January 21, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Uncategorized ~ Leave a Comment

So excited to share my latest app review/giveaway with all of you!! It is really fun and motivating for your artic clients!

Introducing Articulation Carnival by the Virtual Speech Center! From the home screen you can “Start” (pick clients/sounds), just “Play Games”, adjust “Settings”, view “Reports”, watch tutorial videos under “Info” and see “More Apps” from the developer. See some screenshots of each page I just mentioned below:

Start

Play Games

Settings

Info

So once you “Start” and choose the student, you can choose the sounds you want to work on. These will save each time for each student, but it confirms each time you start the game as well.

One important thing (for me) for articulation apps is the quality of pictures. I like high quality, real (not clip art), and salient. I really like the quality of pictures in this app! Below are some examples:

In the pictures above you can also see the general set up of the app! Starting in the upper left corner and moving counterclockwise we have… Finish, which will end your session and take you to the data section. Then, below that you can see the student(s) names who are active in the session. Below that is the sounds that are being targeted (changes when you scroll between students). Then, we have the position you are targeting (initial, medial, final). Last in this column we have if you are targeting the sound at the word, phrase, or sentence level. Each of these customization options can be scrolled through (by swiping) at any time.

On the right side of the screen you can take data (correct, approximated, incorrect), see the current accuracy percentage, change the settings, and record your student producing the word/phrase/sentence.

To go from word to word, you simply swipe the current picture! (this took me a minute to figure out haha)

The app comes with the setting to bring up the games page after 5 words (doesn’t matter if they are correct or incorrect). The games options are below:

Strength Hammer

Balloon Darts

Basketball

Spray Ducks

All of the games are really fun, easy to play, and motivating! My one recommendation would be for the app to have a timer option! The only game that automatically uses a timer is the basketball one. I would LOVE the ability to choose to add a timer to all of them because they could last forever!

One thing I really like about this app is the data tracking section. I love the graphs they make! Below are some screenshots of the data section! It’s really useful and I love how you can email the data as well.

One feature I really like is the ability to add your own words/picture. Check out how easy it is to do below:

Just select the phoneme, placement, and type the word/add a picture!

Below is an example of what the app looks like when you play with multiple students (love that this is an option). My one concern with this is that you have to manually switch between students! I would like it if there was an option that did it automatically for you every other turn! (same with sounds, etc..)

If you want a quick overview of what I’ve stated above, below are my overall pros and cons:

PROS:
-Extremely motivated
-Well designed, great use of graphics
-Great quality pictures
-Very useful data tracking
-Intuitive and fun to use (lots of swipe technology)
-Good settings/options to customize
-Ability to add your own words/pictures

CONS:
-Have to manually switch between students, phonemes, etc…
-No timers on 3/4 games
-Some text overlapping in the data section

OVERALL:
This app is fantastic! I love that is it just like the other articulation apps I use all of the time, except that it has built in reinforcers that kids will love! The app is intuitive and looks great. Additionally, it takes useful data and provides multiple ways to view the data (including graphs). I would absolutely recommend this app to other SLPs looking for a motivating articulation app for their own students! One important thing to mention is that you can buy all the sounds together (for $36.99) OR buy sounds individually (prices vary) which I think is AMAZING when recommending this app to parents! They definitely don’t want/need every sound!

You can find Articulation Carnival here in the App Store or check it out on Virtual Speech Center’s website here.

Thanks for reading!

Disclaimer: This app was given to me in exchange for my review. No other compensation was provided. The opinions expressed are mine. Prices were accurate as of 01/20/2014.

Enter the giveaway below! One very lucky reader will win a copy of Articulation Carnival for themselves!

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S…peachy Feedback for January

January 20, 2014 ~ Filed Under: Uncategorized ~ 1 Comment

I am so excited to join Allison’s Speech Peeps again for the Speachy Feedback Linky Party!! I didn’t participate last month because I’m a terrible blogger and took some time off

I just recently got this feedback on my newest product and LOVED it so I decided to share.

I appreciate detailed, kind, amazing, wonderful, thoughtful feedback more than you could ever know!!

I recently made a fun packet of worksheets that I think is perfect for those of you who work in a middle and/or high school! You can use them with music lyrics and artist information! Meagan Jones wrote:

“I was SO excited to see this product! I have many students who are very into music and I love the idea of incorporating music into therapy. I love how you have taken a topic of interest that can be used with such a wide variety of students and applied it to so many aspects of our job. This is such a wonderful multi-purpose, functional and motivating tool that I will be using with my students from 1st – 5th grade and groups ranging from articulation to fluency to language to social. Thank you so much!”

FANTASTIC! If you’re interested in seeing this product, click here! It’s definitely a motivating one!

Thanks for reading, and Meagan Jones: email me for ANY product from my store!

Check out the entire linky party here to see if you won any products from other sellers!

Speechy Musings

My Fluency Favorites

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What’s In Your Cart Linky

Interactive Visuals for Guessing Games, Describing, and Inferencing

{CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE PRODUCT FROM MY TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS STORE!}

Spring Themed Speech and Language Packet

I appreciate you.

Thank you so much for reading Speechy Musings!

FREE Data Sheets Round-Up

Practicum Organizational Freebie

Love It & List It Linky: Social Skills Materials

Below are my absolute favorite materials for social skills:

Articulation Carnival App Review

Disclaimer: This app was given to me in exchange for my review. No other compensation was provided. The opinions expressed are mine. Prices were accurate as of 01/20/2014.

S…peachy Feedback for January

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