If you need visuals, prompts, and examples to target yes and no questions for speech therapy, make sure to check out my Basic Conversation Visuals and Scripts for Speech Therapy! It contains 3 levels of conversation practice with great visuals to guide your students to success! Read on for more information about how and why […]

Social skills visuals are vital for teaching conversation skills! Check out my 24 visual focus sheets to promote and develop pragmatic language abilities and self-reflection! Social Skills: What Does The Research Say? According to current research and evidence, there are a few things we should keep in mind for effective social skill intervention. Direct Instruction, […]

This is a fabulous guest blog post about social skills generalization by: Sher DeGenova MA CCC-SLP When I first started teaching social skills generalization 10 years ago, I followed in the footsteps of many special education staff before me and focused on game-playing.  My students learned the rules of Headbanz, Pirate Talk, Snail Pace Race, […]

These community helpers worksheets are super helpful for the classic classroom theme! Community helpers are often talked about in preschool, or maybe kindergarten classrooms. But they are also important to discuss with our older special education students in high school or transition programs. I created this comprehensive packet to target a bunch of different language […]

I love working with middle schoolers! When you understand how to work with this group, I know you can find it as rewarding as I do. You just gotta come prepared with some strategies for behavior management specifically made for this group. Once, I recorded a few of my sessions (this is a great way […]

This is a fabulous guest blog post by Lisa Erwin of My Speech Tools all about using Pixar shorts for social emotional learning! “All they do in speech is play games.” Have you heard that comment before? Well, sometimes we watch movies too!  Movie clips and short films are frequently used to supplement learning in the classroom, […]

I am Heidi Britz from SmartmouthSLP, and I’m so happy to be here today!  I want to thank Shannon at Speechy Musings for this opportunity to guest blog on a topic that I love, social language. Over the past ten years, I have learned so much about the concepts of social language, and more specifically […]

When you’re working on conversation skills in speech therapy, it can be hard to keep things natural. There’s nothing better than finding that “just right” motivating topic to target your students goals! When I came up with the idea of conversation cell phones! Cell phones are very motivating for some of my students and this […]

I feel like I’m always targeting identifying emotions, especially related to overall perspective taking skills. I wanted a way that targeted explaining HOW they knew how somebody was feeling, not just making a random guess. I also wanted my kiddos to apply their understanding to basic social scenarios and apply their new knowledge of emotions […]

At the clinic where I work, I spend A LOT of time working on social skills! I lead social groups and work with kiddos working on pragmatic skills 1:1. I’m constantly on the hunt for great materials and programs to target social skills, especially ones that I can use with a variety of ages and […]

Recently I was fortunate enough to check out the Everyday Speech Social skills videos and provide my honest review! Anybody love video modeling for your students, especially when targeting social skills? I sure do, but find it difficult to find appropriate videos! Everyday Speech has got it covered, and it’s really an amazing solution I […]

Do you have students on your caseload that have trouble determining how big or small their problems are? They might get very upset when they are told no or lose in a game? Or constantly over-react to small issues? Then check out my Describing and Solving Problems: Emotional Regulation Activities packet. I’ve done all the […]