Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

This activity was sent in by Becky Pearson from The Dalles, Oregon.  She discovered a great way to turn chocolate candy boxes into a fun and flexible therapy activity.  It’s portable and can easily be used with a group of students with different therapy goals. What you need: A chocolate candy box with a divided [...]

How can you mend a broken heart? Simple! Find the heart halves with words that go together, and “voila”, you’ve saved Valentine’s Day!  Your students can work on synonyms, antonyms, or Valentine words that go together, such as flowers and vase! What you need: Heart shaped papers with word pairs on them, cut in half, [...]

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I love getting Christmas cards during the holiday season, but don’t know what to do with them once the holidays have passed.  This year, I’m going to give them a second life in my therapy sessions! To start, select cards that have interesting pictures on the front and cut each card along the fold to [...]

Here is a fun twist on a classic memory game that gets the students up and involved. You can play it with a pocket chart, put the cards up on a board held with magnets, or simply lay the cards out on the table. By choosing different picture or word cards and changing the number [...]

Keep your students motivated with this hands-on reinforcement activity.  This quick and easy candy cane craft can be used with any goal and can be enjoyed by students of all ages. What you need: candy cane craft page provided, printed on white cardstock (one page for every three students) red paper or cardstock glue stick [...]