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12 FREE activities for Christmas in Speech Therapy

12 FREE Christmas Activities For Speech Therapy

FREE Christmas Activities for Speech Therapy I know your speech therapy room is always crazy in December. With your personal responsibilities for Christmas shopping and

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SLP planner for back to school in speech therapy

Creating Speech Therapy Lesson Plans for Themes

As a school-based SLP, I typically like to follow a curriculum-based approach to therapy. I like to tie my speech therapy lesson plans to the

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Using a green screen for distance learning teletherapy in Speech Therapy

Using A Green Screen In Speech Therapy

With many SLPs delivering services distantly, green screens have become really popular! My son has used one to create videos for school projects, so I

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Summer books for speech therapy

Summer Book Companions For Speech Therapy

Summer Themed books to use in Speech Therapy Popsicles, camping, beach time, and sharks! So many fun narrative themes to incorporate into our speech therapy

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summer book companions for speech therapy

Books To Diversify Your Speech Therapy Bookshelf

Books For Diverse Speech Therapy Bookshelves As Speech-Language Pathologist working with young children, we must be committed to having diverse bookshelves. ALL students deserve to

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Using nursery rhymes in speech therapy

Using Nursery Rhymes In Speech Therapy

As SLPs, we know there is extensive evidence that Phonological Awareness ability predicts reading and spelling success. One of the many ways we can facilitate

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Tips for using Boom Cards in Speech Therapy

How To Use BOOM CARDS in Speech Therapy

I’ve been creating and using Boom Cards in Speech Therapy for about 2 years. I personally don’t do teletherapy but use them for in-person therapy

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FREE articulation sound finder for children's picture books. This is a great speech therapy activity to send for homework and use during distant learning. articulation book activity

Free Articulation Sound Book Activity

In today’s world, distance learning pops up now and again. Speech therapists constantly seek excellent, engaging resources students can use at home. Working remotely with

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Amazing L Book List For Articulation Therapy

The Best /L/ Books for Articulation Selecting books to use in speech therapy can be time-consuming, and productivity is lost. I wanted to create an

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How To Implement Remote Digital Speech Teletherapy / Telepractice

How to implement remote, digital Speech Teletherapy / Telepractice With the recent school and clinic closings due to COVID-19, many SLPs are looking into the

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free download - storybooks to use in Speech Therapy

Using Cumulative Storybooks In Speech Therapy Successfully: 12 Fun Books

Use these Cumulative storybooks to practice different speech therapy skills in the classroom. The books’ repetitive nature helps kids grasp concepts and words during sessions.

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Speech Therapy Book Companions

Using Book Companions In Speech Therapy

  Using Book Companions in Speech Therapy After many, many requests, I have finally created book companions that address the deeper reading comprehension issues our

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Language-based literacy intervention for SLPs.
Turn picture books into targeted speech therapy sessions.
Finally feel confident using books in therapy

Most reading difficulties don’t begin in fourth gr Most reading difficulties don’t begin in fourth grade.

They begin years earlier, before reading instruction becomes more complex.

Hall and Moats (1999), summarizing findings from NICHD research, wrote that it can take four times as much assistance to improve a child’s reading skills when intervention is delayed until fourth grade rather than beginning in kindergarten.

By fourth grade, many struggling readers are working to improve while also trying to catch up on vocabulary, fluency, language comprehension, and years of missed reading experience.

This is one reason early intervention matters.

For SLPs, strengthening oral language, phonological awareness, vocabulary, syntax, and narrative skills is more than supporting communication. These skills provide the foundation children need for successful reading.
The books you choose matter, even for your “speech The books you choose matter, even for your “speech only” students. Up to 75% of our kids with speech sound disorders also have weaknesses in the language skills that support reading comprehension.
Every articulation session is an opportunity to build the language skills that support reading. A well chosen picture book gives you repeated practice with /sh/ while also strengthening story grammar, vocabulary, inferencing, retell, and comprehension, all within the same activity.

Share this with an SLP friend who loves books too! And don’t forget to check out the others in this series. What speech sound should I feature next?
If you’ve ever said, “What’s another word for that If you’ve ever said, “What’s another word for that?” during a screening... this one’s for you.
Every time a student says “bunny” instead of “rabbit,” I lose a little bit of screening time. 😅
It’s one of my biggest frustrations with articulation screeners.
So when I created my own screener, I intentionally chose words that reduce alternate responses, so you can spend less time prompting and more time listening to what really matters: the student’s speech.
Because a speech sound screener should make your job easier. Not create more work.
Comment “screener” and I’ll send you the link!
Obviously it’s nice to know they liked the book BU Obviously it’s nice to know they liked the book BUT. As you’re reading, think about where you want the conversation to go. Start with questions that confirm understanding, then guide students toward explaining why events happened, describing characters’ thoughts and feelings, using new vocabulary, and connecting ideas across the story.
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