0505, 2017

A Gift of Speech Printables Giveaway!

Today I’m featuring A Gift of Speech’s Shannon Archer!  Included in this bundle will be THREE separate activities you can print out and start using! Interactive Multisyllabic Words! Minimal to No Prep Activities in color and black & white! Practice multisyllabic words with multi-modalities: visual, auditory, tactile, verbal, and FUN! Activity include 23 pages of interactive activities to practice multi-syllabic words! This activity was created to help work on multisyllabic

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2301, 2017

The problem with school SLP’s.

I only realized after being a part of the special needs community that school SLP’s have a bad rap.  Like a really, REALLY, REALLY bad rap.   I’m preparing a talk next month for Colorado school SLP’s, and every time I prepare a talk for this demographic, I have to tell you they have a special place in my heart.  No, it’s not just because I started as one and

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The Do’s and Don’ts of in-home speech therapy
1504, 2016

The Do’s and Don’ts of in-home speech therapy

Being both an SLP AND a mother to a child with a severe speech disorder, I have this unique and sometimes bizarre perspective; that perspective, of course, being that I now intimately understand both sides.  That being said, I think parents/my clients, typically feel more comfortable telling me things parent to parent vs. parent to SLP. As a mother now to a child with apraxia, I have a new appreciation

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0804, 2015

Spring themed DOT dauber games for repetitive practice

  My speech kids love using BINGO daubers!  It’s great too because I can get a lot of practice repetitions in while making it fun and playing a game.  Each player gets a game board.  Then we roll the dice and practice saying our target words the number of times on the dice while filling up the spots on the board.  Whoever fills it up first wins!   You can

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0304, 2015

Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick Speech/Language Activity Pack

  This is a little late, but I see private clients on Saturday and I needed an activity to go along with the book “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick,” by Lucille Colandro.  As you probably know, I usually incorporate repetitive books into therapy as a way to provide vocabulary in context, but to also have the kids participate by having a part in the book to

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Baking with speech and language
1206, 2014

Baking with speech and language

Parents are always looking for ways to incorporate speech and language activities at home.  Whether it is to stimulate a typically developing child’s vocabulary and language, or to help a speech or language delayed child; baking is great and fun way to work on speech and language. The first and most important rule before you start, is you have to accept the fact that your toddler will make a mess,

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