You’re driving in the car and your kid is growing antsy. Quickest solution: Hand him your smart phone! You’re waiting for your food a restaurant and the little ones are throwing the sugar packets at each other. Easiest solution: Turn on some cartoons on the tablet! It’s a rainy Saturday morning and you can’t

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This fun therapy activity will let you work on grammar skills like pronouns and verb tenses while you’re playing with sock puppets. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it’s SUPER fun! Check it out: Materials: Two Sock Puppets: Use tube socks and hot glue eyes and hair onto them. Make sure one looks like a

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Perspective Taking | Examples and Activities for Speech Therapy Perspective taking is our ability to think about a situation from someone else's point of view. If we can take a guess at how someone else is thinking or feeling, it can help us navigate social interactions and better understand the world around us.

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Joint Attention Speech Therapy | Activities and Strategies Hello? Can you hear me? What do we do if a child is not responding or even paying attention to us when we try to work with them? On this page, we'll share some activities and strategies that you can use to help a child

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RTI Speech Therapy: How to Use 5-Minute Sessions for MTSS Tier 2 Response to Intervention (RTI) is an approach to supporting children who are struggling to learn something from the general education curriculum.  It is when we provide additional supports to those children outside of the special education process.  This is often implemented

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What is an SLPA? **This first part is about the roles of an SLPA. For resources, materials, and support: scroll down! Here’s what the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) defines as a speech-language pathology assistant (SLPA): “Speech-language pathology assistants are support personnel who, following academic coursework, fieldwork, and on-the-job training, perform tasks prescribed,

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Breaking Down the Common Core Standards for Working on Written Narratives The common core standards are the set of curriculum guidelines that the department of education has set forth as a method of making sure that all students are taught the skills needed to be successful in college or in the job force. Whether

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Dyslexia Speech Therapy: How SLPs Can Help with Dyslexia Children with dyslexia struggle to read even though they are bright and have had reading instruction. Speech therapy can help children with dyslexia by addressing underlying phonological and language challenges. On this page, we'll explain how speech-language pathologists can provide dyslexia speech therapy

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Echolalia: When Children Repeat what you Say (Speech Therapy Ideas) What if a child repeats questions instead of answering? What if they quote lines from a show or movie? What if they repeat things that they have heard others say? Well, this is called "echolalia" and it's how some children learn language!

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Selective Mutism Treatment | Speech Therapy Plan and Activities A child with selective mutism will speak in some situations (like home) but not in others (like at school). What is the best selective mutism treatment? How can we help them feel more comfortable communicating with others? This page will outline the step-by-step selective

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