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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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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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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 therapy sessions.
Evidence-based strategies you can use tomorrow.

Sequencing a story is a real skill. It builds temp Sequencing a story is a real skill. It builds temporal awareness and it gives you something measurable, especially with younger students or those with emerging language.
But it has a ceiling.
Students with DLD often show the biggest gaps in causal reasoning and character motivation, and those gaps won’t surface on a sequencing task. Narrative macrostructure, the parts that capture why events happen and how a character’s goal drives the story, is what predicts reading comprehension outcomes down the line.
The shift isn’t about abandoning sequencing. It’s about knowing when a student is ready for more and making sure the goals reflect that.
I am not telling you to toss your favorite books. I am not telling you to toss your favorite books. 😅The Old Lady series is engaging, kids love it, and it has a place in therapy. But if you are reaching for books that offer rich, deep language value, they are a limited tool because the structure really only gives children one opportunity to predict a confirmed outcome, and predicting and inferencing are not the same skill. Inferencing is a higher level language skill, and it deserves books that give children room to read between the lines, construct meaning from implied information, and sit with complexity. The question is not whether a book is fun or familiar. The question is whether it is actually doing the clinical work you need it to do.

📚Predicting: I Went Walking by Sue Williams, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, and Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan.
📚Inferencing: The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig, Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts, Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, and Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson.
📚Both: Enemy Pie by Derek Munson, Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, The Stray Dog by Marc Simont, and Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
The Old Lady books have a place for sequencing and The Old Lady books have a place for sequencing and speech sound practice! But for language development, look for books with Tier 2 vocabulary, complex sentence structures, and clear story grammar so students are working with language they can actually learn and use across contexts. 🫶🏼👵🏼
I used to wonder why my students couldn’t generali I used to wonder why my students couldn’t generalize vocabulary beyond our sessions, and it took me a while to figure out what was missing.
I was teaching words. I wasn’t teaching the process for figuring out words. 😬
That process is a language skill, and it belongs in our sessions. Students with language disorders often skip unfamiliar words, guess randomly, or wait for someone to explain, and that pattern follows them into every classroom and every subject.
When we teach word learning strategies explicitly, modeling the thought process and practicing across multiple texts, we give students something that transfers. Vocabulary growth starts happening during reading, not just during therapy.
Research supports this directly. Word learning strategy instruction is linked to improved comprehension outcomes for students with developmental language disorder (Steele and Mills, 2011; Nash and Snowling, 2006).
If your student can decode a sentence but has no idea what it means, this is a reasonable place to look.
start targeting word learning strategies as a language skill, not just a reading skill. 🙌🏼
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