Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

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 [...]

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 [...]

In an age of emails and texts, hand-written letters seem so “old school”, but they may be just what your students need to work on their written language skills. Why letters? Just like with narrative and persuasive writing tasks, you can work on good word choice, capitalization, punctuation, sentence variety, and details when writing letters [...]

I love the language boost I witness when I bring small, unusual-looking gourds into my therapy sessions this time of year.  No matter how old they are, the students’ curiosity gets the best of them and they can’t help but be engaged.  So what do I do?  I milk it for all it’s worth to [...]

What a great way to help kids remember that antonyms are opposite words! When I saw these adorable “ant”onyms at one of my schools I knew I had to tell you about them. The creator of the ants pictured here, Renee Cottrell, gave me permission to share them with you. The idea is simple…make a [...]