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Reuse Holiday Cards for Speech and Language Therapy

Holiday Cards

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 [...]

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Pocket Chart Memory Game for Speech or Language Therapy

Pocket Chart Memory

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 [...]

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Hands On Thanksgiving Activity and Word List

turkey_hand

I’ve found that the more “hands on” an activity is, the more my students participate and enjoy the work we are doing.  By putting a speech or language spin on a classic Thanksgiving activity, you can target a wide range of goals – and have some fun too! Getting Started First the students trace their [...]

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S Cluster Therapy Ideas

Stop Sign

Here are some great ideas for working on s clusters! They were submitted by Angel Reaux, a graduate student at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Thank you, Angel! Use I Spy books or puzzles or put pictures of s cluster objects on the wall and play “I Spy” games. Use a puppet spider and have [...]

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Pot of Gold Activity

Pot of Gold

With over 100 kids total on my caseload (at five different schools), I am a busy speech-language pathologist just like you. So I’m always looking for quick, easy, and flexible activities that I can use in my therapy sessions to keep them fun and productive. This one meets all of those criteria and makes a [...]

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Here are Some “Sweet” Valentine’s Day Therapy Materials…

Candy Heart

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 [...]

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