clip art courtesy of: Oodles of Doodles found at www.theJoyofKindergarten.com This is the last St. Patty’s Day material I made for my kiddos this year. I wanted to make a material that focused on the articulation difficulties my kiddos where having while also encouraging phonemic awareness and early literacy skills. So…the St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock […]
Today I have a wonderful guest blog from Smart Speech Therapy, LLC’s Tatyana Elleseff, on differential diagnosis between Auditory Processing Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (hyperactive, inattentive type, and/or combination). This blog first appeared on June 6, 2011 on Smart Speech Therapy, LLC’s blog. Click on this link to go to original blog post. Summary: This article […]
Did you hear about Fifth in the Middle’s linky party? She started this linky so bloggers can connect by their state. And look at the super cute buttons she made for each state! Head on over to her blog and link up! You just might be surprised by who is blogging in a city near […]
Want another St. Patrick’s Day Freebie? How about a few St. Patty’s Day Puzzles? I made the rainbow and pot of gold puzzle for my kiddos but I thought, what can you use for your older kids? So you have two puzzles to choose form AND one page of blank puzzle pieces for any ?s […]
Today I am guest posting on [simply speech.]‘s Welcome Home series today! The topic? Using movement to keep PK students attentive during therapy! Here’s a preview of all the goodies you will find over there… So here is my biggest secret to success with preschoolers: Movement! It is NOT developmental to expect a PK age […]
This is Part 2 of a previous post focusing on training slow speech rate. Find Part 1 here.When working on teaching a slow rate of speech, the 3rd and final step to making slow rate a habit, is for a child to self-monitor his/her own speech rate. I call this skill “Listening to myself”. I do […]
I LOVE St. Patrick’s Day and I also love using pictures for my articulation kiddos (as most of my kiddos are non-readers). But to make this activity I really couldn’t fit pictures into the small spots above so I wrote words. I decided to use words from Webber’s Jumbo Articulation Drill Book because I’m pretty […]
This post is in response to a followers request. Thanks for your input and suggestions!One of the very first ways to improve intelligibility is to teach a child to use a slower speech rate. When children with articulation disorders use a fast speech rate, often times the number of omissions and sound substitutions increase, syllables […]
What shall I do for President’s Day? I thought of this simple game for one of my older clients who may not know these presidents but it’s certainly worth exposing him to. In this little packet is a game board and 6 Presidential Facts cards. I tried to pick past presidents that I thought or […]
I know today is Tip Tuesday and I promised a tips blog every week. Well actually Tip Tuesday has turned into Wacky Wednesday and Therapy Thursday this week which means you get TWO tip blogs (and freebies of course)! My first tip post will be on Hodson’s Cycles Approach, what is it, how to implement […]
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