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, [...]

Want some fun, useful and very inexpensive therapy materials? Pick up a box of Valentine’s cards! They can be turned into customized therapy materials in just a matter of minutes! And did I mention how inexpensive they are? I found boxes of cards with licensed characters on them at the dollar store! Here are some [...]

You can use this as a quick and easy Valentine’s game or as positive reinforcement for answers and speech productions. What you need: Valentine cards (I used my son’s left over ones) Marker or pen Candy hearts, stickers, or other treat (optional) On the inside of the Valentine cards, write a 1, 2, or 3. [...]

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 [...]

Here are two Valentine’s Day activities to use with your speech and language therapy groups.  Adapt them to the goals you are working on and have fun! Stack ‘Em Up Have a pile of conversation hearts on the table in front of each child’s seat.  Give 30 seconds for the children to stack them as [...]