It’s No-Prep December and that means that I’m challenging you NOT to prep any therapy activities for the whole month.

But how do we do that for language therapy?

How do we do it for younger children?

Or teenagers?

Or elementary-aged students?

Is it possible to go no-prep for language therapy??

Well, I’m speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I’m going to answer all of these questions with three easy ways to do no-prep therapy for language skills.

You can listen to the full podcast episode below:

When starting off with no-prep language therapy, the first thing to do is to choose a skill to target.

You can choose one skill to dive deep on or a few that you’ll work on as they come up.

You’ll hold in your mind the level of the skill you’ll be working at (scaffolding) or what cues you’ll use.

There are three levels of no-prep therapy to choose from.

The level you choose will depend on the age and developmental level of the child along with how things seem to be going that day.

Here are the levels:

Keep in mind that you may find yourself moving from one level to another throughout the session, based on how things are going.

But you should at least have an idea of where you’ll start.

Now comes the part where you have to learn to let go.

It may feel uncomfortable at first but I promise that when you allow the child to lead the activity, you’ll get better buy-in and they’ll make faster progress.

Plus, you’ll be spending less time up front on planning and prepping elaborate activities.

Let the child choose the toys, games, or activities.

Have them bring in something they are reading or an assignment they’re working on.

Ask them if they’d like to go for a walk.

Ask them if there is anything they’d like to talk about.

Ask them about their interests.

Invest in them as a human first, then work the communication skills into it.

Let’s go over a few examples to help you understand what we mean:

Example: Pronouns

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