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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
Get your back to school speech therapy plan done with these ideas and activities for The Kissing Hand! Many children feel anxious about the newness of heading back to school. The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is a sweet book that assures them that they are loved and will have
What are your favorite story books for speech therapy? That’s what I asked nine talented SLP blogger friends and I’m excited to share their favorites with you and check them out for myself! If you’ve stopped by Speech Sprouts before, you know I think literature-based therapy is terrific. The cat’s
Summertime means it’s time to find some great books to read! I can head to the library, and I have time to peruse the stacks all I want. For this book-lover, that’s a treat! So have I found a great mystery to read? Science fiction maybe? Or perhaps a biography?
Have you tried water play activities in your preschool speech therapy sessions yet? I love using water play in my therapy room. Why should you include water activities in speech and language therapy? Glad you asked! Water play and preschoolers are a natural combination. What preschooler can pass a
The Mitten is one of my very favorite books for winter speech therapy. This sweet and simple story is a Ukranian Folktale beautifully re-told and illustrated by Jan Brett. The story tells about a young boy named Nikki who wanted snow-white mittens. His very wise grandmother, Baba, didn’t think that
I love using children’s books in speech therapy. Do you know that euphoric feeling when you finish a session and say, “Wow! That was terrific!” You feel that you thoroughly addressed your student’s goals and everyone was truly engaged. I often get that warm fuzzy when I use storybooks in
Have you heard of The Little Orange House? It’s my favorite story and craft for Halloween speech therapy. This is not just an easy construction paper craft for Halloween, it’s a great listening activity too! You tell the story as you cut a piece of orange construction paper to make
Colors are great basic descriptive concepts, so I always spend some time on them in speech therapy. Beyond just naming colors, young children need to learn to use them as adjectives in sentences to describe objects. Here are some the of the activities we had fun with in Pre-K and
A Teddy Bear Picnic that is! My littles each got to bring a “plus one” to the event. They brought bears of all shapes and sizes. We read Corduroy then hunted for his missing button. Each child had to follow the clues with prepositions to find a button.Look inside something
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