Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

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 [...]

It’s amazing the cumulative effect that occurs when you consistently do something a little bit at a time.  When starting out a new school year, use time to your advantage! How? Once you’ve scheduled your groups and identified your students’ goals, decide on a “building block” activity that you will work on each session.  This [...]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! This craft reuses egg cartons, which makes it a great Earth Day activity. I love that it is perfect for spring, easy for little hands, and adaptable to go along with Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar book. It also makes sessions fun! I did this craft with my younger students after [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water…” Remember poor Jack and Jill? What about the whimsical rhyme about the cat who played the fiddle and the cow who jumped into outer space? These nursery rhymes may seem like silly non-sense, but they actually serve a purpose. Rhyming helps children [...]