First speech therapy session activities

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Are you confused about how to do minimal pairs therapy? Read on the blog about the first step, so that you can be more confident when you are in your next speech therapy session.

Using open ended activities and games in speech therapy can make planning sessions so much easier! Here are a few suggestions that worked well for me.

This week we are highlighting early intervention services! Feel free to ask questions as we highlight different areas of early intervention and early development. ⁣ ⁣ As moms, we understand that it can be stressful to wonder if there is a cause for concern regarding your child's development! There are many milestones that we watch for, and there is a RANGE for when little ones meet them. 🤯⁣ ⁣

Discover our free, editable Stutter Speech Therapy Infographic! Perfect for classrooms, speech therapy sessions, and beyond, this engaging poster not only helps teach students the basics of stuttering, but also makes a fantastic visual aid for those interested in learning more about stuttering.

How to build rapport in speech and why it’s important… When I was first starting as an SLP in the schools, I made the huge mistake of thinking I could just jump right into therapy. There are so many things I needed to do first, and I learned rather quickly how to set myself and […]

Bingo Daubers are a quick and easy speech therapy activity to get high trials during articulation and phonology therapy. This hands-on activity will keep your preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students engaged during your entire speech sound therapy session. Click to read 7 no-prep speech therapy activities.

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These speech and language dice are a fun, low prep speech therapy activity that can be used with kids in kindergarten and elementary school up to middle school. The printable materials include pages to create dice for articulation, story retell, describing and categories. Use them for individual or group therapy or send them home for homework.

Keep your therapy sessions fun and fast with this speech game! Lay two cards in front of your students and see who can be the first to find the picture that they both have in common. You can then have the students say that word before moving to the next card or review them all at the beginning or end of the session. There is a set of 21 cards and a page with labeled pictures for each of the following: initial "sh", medial "sh", and final "sh".

One of the most common challenges for SLPs is planning activities that can address a variety of therapy targets and engage a variety of age groups. This post discusses why picture scenes are so effective, how to use them in speech therapy sessions, and ideas for where to find picture scenes. This post also includes 2 free picture scenes that form part of the Digital SLP’s library of 2000 online speech therapy games and activities.

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Basic concepts are the foundations that children build upon to develop not only their skills for following directions but reading and math as well. Smarty Ears has developed a basic concept screening tool to help SLPs identify if any of these concepts developing in error. Not only is this app thorough, it is also engaging for students and compact for the SLP. I would much rather get out my iPad to assess a student than my box of testing forms and manipulative items that go with the…

Our blog on speech therapy for kids attempts to: make that decision clearer and easier by first digging into the questions parents grapple with before they see a speech-language pathologist (SLP), then it explores the practical issues of seeing a therapist, then how to practice at home in between therapy sessions, and finally, how to know when to stop seeing your SLP. Here are 5 questions to ask at your first speech therapy meeting!

FREEBIE for describing objects - helps students to expand their expression, ability to define and describe words, work on categorization, comparing and contrasting, expanding MLU: