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Games are a great alternative when articulation drills get, well… boring. But can articulation games for speech therapy be effective as drill work? Absolutely! You know it’s important to get plenty of repetitions when practicing the r sound in articulation therapy, and sometimes a few minutes of pure drills can
Taking articulation data at the conversational level in speech therapy sessions can be a challenge. Let’s get real… the flow of conversation doesn’t pause after each word or sentence to let you document. Taking data at the word and sentence levels is easy because each attempt is a discrete trial and
Mixed groups can get a bit crazy sometimes in speech therapy No-prep printables perfect for mixed articulation groups in speech therapy. We’ve all had ’em if you are a school-based speech-language pathologist. The challenges are real, especially as groups grow larger. And they are, with so many school settings tossing
The Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skills (DEMSS) is a tool I’ve been waiting for. The DEMSS is a criterion-referenced dynamic assessment of childhood apraxia of speech. Does this sound familiar? You’re evaluating a young child with a severe speech sound disorder. You note a
If you’re a pediatric SLP, you’ve undoubtedly spent time in articulation therapy trying to shape that most stubborn of phonemes. R articulation therapy can be exasperating. That obstinate, ornery R. You know what I am talking about. Do you feel like you’ve exhausted every articulation trick for R that you
Try this frosty snowman craft this January There are so many vocabulary and language opportunities during art activities… and I am wishing for a little snow this winter! Recycle leftover lamination to create these cute snowmen! I know many of my friends have been digging out after snowstorms dropped plenty of the white
There are monsters in my speech therapy room. I’m ready for Halloween in my speech therapy room, with bats and ghosts and pumpkins galore. But this week, the monsters moved in. Monsters have been here before, helping us to learn prepositions, concepts and telling us stories. But this time the
This is Part 5 of my series for SLPs on Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Let’s Talk! Today, we are going to talk about planning your therapy for CAS. Congratulations, speech peeps, we made it through a lot of information on assessment together. I have been sharing what I learned from
I can always count on having children with s-cluster goals in speech therapy. Preschoolers and kindergarteners are cuddly, cute and very wiggly- they need hands-on activities! So I am ever on the lookout for fresh ideas and activities to keep those little ones engaged. Spoon drop s-blend activity Enter S-Blend
Where do I start in therapy for Childhood Apraxia of Speech? Uncover emerging skills with a dynamic assessment approach for CAS and yield some powerful information to kickstart progress in speech therapy! What is a dynamic assessment? Dynamic assessment means we are cuing the child, and seeing how they respond to
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