Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

What better way is there to get your message across this Valentine’s Day than to put it on a “candy heart”? There is a cool website that allows you to enter your own word or message, pick the heart’s color, and save the result. To make your own, go to http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/ I’ve made some pages [...]

Want to have some clean wintry fun in your sessions? Have a “snowball” fight! This version works in all climates (even in Florida) and is a great motivator for heaps of repetition or practice. Materials: Scrap paper, ripped (letter size paper ripped in fourths works great) Stimuli for what you are working on Bowl or [...]

Could it be?  Could hanging laundry actually be fun?  With this speech therapy activity it can be! What you’ll need Picture or word cards cut out in the shape of clothing (e.g., shirts, shorts, mittens) Yarn or string (and a simple way to hang it) Clothespins or large paper clips Small basket or container for [...]

Why are bubbles so great? They’re cheap, fascinating, low-tech, and a wonderful therapy tool – a must have for Speech-language Pathologists working with young children.  The effect bubbles can have on a child is amazing!  By blowing bubbles, you can quickly gain and hold a child’s attention or calm a fussy child.  You can work [...]

Do you want a way to help your clients expand their vocabularies and improve their describing skills?  If so, work on categorization. Organization When things are organized, you can find what you need quickly and know where things go once you’ve obtained them.  The same is true for linguistic organization.  Understanding how things go together [...]

What’s fun, inexpensive, and versatile for therapy activities?  Plastic Easter eggs!  All of the ages I work with (from 3 to 19 years old) enjoy our egg games.  It could be that I make prizes part of the activities or just that it’s something we only do for about one week each year.  Whatever the reason, [...]