4th of July is coming up, so how about a fun simple way to practice some speech/language goals with a simple game? Patriotic Practice is a simple game mat you can play with one or several players. Just grab a few game pieces a dice or two and begin! For the older kiddos I […]
Being a thrift store mama, I find many great games and fun activities I can use at home with my son as well as in therapy. Right before Christmas (last year) I found Hungry Hungry Hippos for a few bucks! That’s right folks. It normally retails around $21.99 and I bought it for less than […]
Working on reading comprehension? How about a simple expository text about the basic history of Independence Day? There are a few difficult vocabulary words in this paragraph so be aware of this when working with your clients. You may want to add a vocabulary lesson as needed. Grab your freebie here! Enjoy and […]
Picture courtesy of: Amazon.com(click on picture to take you to the link) Through a FB thread several months ago, it was recommended to me to look into James MacDonald and Barabara Mitchell’s work in the SLP field. I didn’t know much about them so I went to my favorite source when searching for books…Amazon! There […]
It’s FREEBIE Friday again! Last week I shared some reading comprehension stories at what I call “Level 1”. This week I have some new stories that are a bit more complex. This packet includes 2 reading comprehension short stories at what I like to label “Level 2”, which means that it consists of 100-150 words, […]
My son tends to show most growth (meaning most changes in cognitive, motor, social skills and yes behavior) around his birthday and half birthday each year. This is fairly standard development when researching typical development in young children. As I just finished re-researching behavioral milestones in a four year old I thought I’d share that […]
It’s FREEBIE Friday again! Today I have a few reading comprehension stories I wrote for one of my clients. This packet includes 2 reading comprehension short stories at what I like to label “Level 1”, which means that it consists of 50-100 words, uses short simple sentences and repetitive words. Also included in this […]
As those of you who have been following me for some time now know, I LOVE working with young children (0-5yrs). But what I LOVE even MORE than working with the children is working with the parents. I worked in the school setting for 7 years and have found my parent education skills to be […]
You’ve seen my mini readers before. I made a few of these mini readers for my own son b/c he was blending C1VC2 words. I needed something very simple and concrete. So I made a few mini readers for us to work on. Then I realized they would be perfect little early readers for some […]
As my regular followers know by now, I LOVE play therapy and I REALLY LOVE incorporating movement in speech therapy. So one beautiful spring morning I decided to have some fun with a little T-Ball speech therapy session. “T-ball in therapy?”, you may be asking yourself. ABSOLUTELY! So how did it all work? Well I […]
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