Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

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 [...]

Are you looking for a game that can keep your students engaged while working on a wide range of skills?  Try out this card collecting game that even had my eighth graders giggling (and that’s saying something)! Versatile This game can be used in almost any therapy group because the students take their turns playing [...]

Students match up pieces of snowmen that go together with this wintry activity.  Included are six snowmen with winter categories, six snowmen with math vocabulary words, and a page of blank snowmen that you can customize. You can use them for: synonyms rhyming words words with sounds in certain positions (intial /s/, medial /s/, final/s/) [...]