
The best visual schedule/motivator ever.
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The title says it all! I am so excited to share this idea with you all!
This idea began when I began working with a very hard to motivate student. She was very smart, but…

Teaching WH Questions
So many kiddos have WH question goals... in some form or another. The ability to answer WH questions is important, in all settings: school, home, in conversation, etc...
I knew this, but I always wondered how to teach WH questions without feeling…

Interactive Visuals for Guessing Games, Describing, and Inferencing
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…

Make Your Own Story Visuals for ANY Book!
I love materials that are adaptable to a variety of levels and easy to make, and this one is both of those things!
In fact, this is SO easy to make that I'll tell you how to make it AND use it in this post!
(1) The first step is to make…

Data... Grad School Style
Jenn, from Crazy Speech World, is hosting a "Show Me The Data!" Linky. I wanted to participate, and share the way I took data throughout my first year of graduate school!
This way worked incredibly well for me in our on campus clinic, and…

Movement Breaks for Speech Therapy
Hopefully most of you saw a previous post of mine about regulation, and having my clients find their optimal level of energy throughout our sessions together. If not, click here to catch up and read it!
Many of the clients I see have…

Using Elephant and Piggie Books for Speech Therapy
Biggest hit in therapy so far this semester? Elephant and Piggie books! And it's no surprise! These books are great. Wanna know why? Read on.
1) Kids LOVE these books. In my experience, they request them over almost all other books.
2) Elephant…

Social Skills Groups: Ideas and a FREEBIE
This semester, I am co-running a social group for girls with ASD diagnosis'. I love it! In order to help attain some sort of a structure to session, I created a small 9-page packet. Here is what is included:
1) Being a leader and a helper…

Spider-Man Matching Revised!
Over the holidays, my boyfriend's family always does a White Elephant gift exchange. If you're unfamiliar, it's basically where everybody finds random, unwanted things around their house (sometimes humorous things...) and trades them. I saw…

Sensory Slime Therapy Ideas
By far, this is my favorite thing to make with kids! It's motivating, easy to make, and tons of fun for everybody! Any guesses?! It... is...
SLIME! Or flubber, or gak, or whatever your preferred term is!
I know there are many recipes out there,…

A Semester of Articulation Therapy Ideas
As my semester wraps up, I've started compiling ideas that I've used thus far! One of my clients was a very young artic client. He was incredibly cooperative and wonderful, so I got the chance to try out all sorts of activities and games on…

Cariboo!
I finally found it! I've been searching since I read about it at Speech Room News here.
One way to make it easy to adapt Cariboo for articulation therapy is to insert the cards found on Mommy Speech Therapy. There, you can click on most any…