Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

I’ve always got my eye out for easy and fun activities to use in my sessions and share with you.  I saw this activity on PBS Kids Sprout a while back and loved it!  It’s easy for little ones to do and is a an adaptable and easy craft.  I’ve included free printable pages of [...]

Use Easter and spring sentences to build a basket These sentences make it easier to work with a group of students who are focused on different sounds or skills.  Every sentence contains the /k/, /l/, /s/, and “r” sounds.  The sentences can also be used to identify parts of speech.  There are 25 Easter sentences [...]

Here’s a fun reinforcement activity that can be used with students of almost any age.  It’s tic-tac-toe – spring style! What to do: If playing with a group, divide the students into pairs.  If there’s an odd number, you can play to even out the teams. Print out a game page for each pair.  Cut [...]

Looking for gold My students love this activity so much, they want to keep playing it over and over!  Finding gold is pretty exciting, you know!  The other great part of this activity is that it can be used to practice just about any speech or language skill.  All you need to do is alter [...]

Why Work with Words? Playing with sounds can be so much fun when using alliteration.  For speech therapy groups it’s great for phonemic awareness and fun sound practice.  Develop better writing and vocabulary skills with your language therapy groups as well. Alliteration Animals and Actions Use these cards to get your students started with alliteration.  [...]

Phonemic Awareness Awareness of phonemes, the smallest units of sound, is important for reading and working on speech sounds.  You can help your students work on one of the earliest phonemic awareness tasks by matching words that have the same initial sound. Included are 10 pairs (20 picture cards) of words that begin with the [...]