Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

These baseball cards are great for working on a variety of number-based skills.  Students can practice counting objects and matching the amount to the correct number, sequencing numbers, and comparing amounts with “more than” and “less than”. There are many language concepts in math and the skills you can address with these cards help provide [...]

Some language impaired students need direct, specific instruction for learning concepts such as “neither”, “either”, and “both”.  Use this cute caterpillar activity to teach and reinforce the meanings of these terms. How to use the materials After reading a card or rebus sentence, your student puts the two food items listed in front of him.  [...]

Working on parts of speech may seem like something that should happen in the classroom, not in language therapy.  But consider that metalinguistics, an awareness of the rules of language, is critical for language development.  And it’s not surprising that students with language impairments often have poor metalinguistic skills. I have found that while all [...]

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 [...]

These rearranging sentence parts are different than those posted previously.  With these sentences, students arrange the sentence pieces into two different sentences by making an adjective describe two different nouns.  For example, one set of sentence pieces could be arranged as “The lucky boy found a clover.” or as “The boy found a lucky clover.” [...]