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Fall and Halloween Speech and Language Roundup

October 4, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 6 Comments

Last year I did several Fall and Halloween posts incorporating crafts, activities, and therapy ideas that can be adapted for use in therapy sessions or by parents at home to help expand speech and language skills. I thought it would be nice to have all these posts in one place! Just click on the picture […]

Hidden Picture Scenes: Review and Giveaway!

July 25, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Giveaways, Product Reviews, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 36 Comments

It has been a while since I’ve had a giveaway, so I thought it was about time! 🙂 Hidden Picture Scenes from Super Duper Publications: A Review Product Description The Hidden Picture Scenes for Articulation and Language from Super Duper Publications consist of 80 laminated word scenes (40 cards with scenes on both sides) to […]

Therapy Thursday: I Can’t Live Without My Sand Timers!

June 28, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Therapy Ideas and Activities, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 3 Comments

My first year out of school, I worked with the severely handicapped population. I worked with children aged 5 to 18 with about 3/4 of my caseload being on the autism spectrum. I started researching EVERYTHING I could about working with children of this population. Hours and hours and hours. One of the things I […]

Buckaroo-Great for Reinforcement, Language, and Articulation

June 12, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Fine Motor Activities, Games, Language Enrichment Activities for Parents, Therapy Ideas and Activities, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations, Toys and Language Learning 2 Comments

I’ve written many posts about the different toys and games that I recommend for both parents and SLPs to use to work on speech and language skills both in therapy sessions and in the home. One of the games that I have gotten a TON of use out over the years is Buckaroo. That is, […]

Using Train Sets to Stimulate Language Skills

April 25, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Play, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 4 Comments

The first year I started working with preschoolers, I had several students who were on the autism spectrum who        L O V E D Thomas the Train. I soon  discovered I had several children not on the autism who loved Thomas the Train. Ok so 80% of my caseload were obsessed with this little blue […]

9 Reference Books I Can’t Live Without for Speech Pathology

April 17, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 10 Comments

This month I have shared with you my 15 Kids Games I Can’t Live Without for Therapy and 10 Therapy Materials I Can’t Live Without. Today I am going to share 9 reference books I can’t live without! Here they are (in no particular order): #1 Evaluating & Enhancing Children’s Phonological Systems by Barbara Hodson. […]

Super Duper Any Time Go-Togethers: Review and Giveaway!

April 11, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Giveaways, Product Reviews, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 39 Comments

Picture cards are a must-have in the speech therapy world. My first year out of grad school one of my very first purchases was a big box of picture cards to help target vocabulary and other concepts in my then moderate to severely delayed population. So I was really excited when Super Duper asked if […]

10 Therapy Materials I Can’t Live Without

April 10, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 6 Comments

I LOVE learning about what therapy materials other SLP’s use. I know on the speech message boards and Facebook groups this is a common topic. Today I am going to share 10 therapy materials that I cannot live without. If you didn’t catch it last week, I shared with you 15 Kids Games I Can’t […]

Super Duper Quick Take Along Mini Books: Review and Giveaway!

April 4, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Product Reviews, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 40 Comments

As a speech pathologist, I am constantly trying to find quality therapy products. In addition, I am also always looking for things to make my job easier. When working in the schools, an SLP typically has a large caseload (between 45-80 students) with diverse goals and objectives. The majority of the time, we have no […]

Marble Race: One of the BEST Tools I Use in Therapy

April 3, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Games, Therapy Materials and Product Recomendations 7 Comments

Hands-down one of the BEST investments I have made to my therapy materials collection is my marble race set. I got mine for only $20 at Toys R Us about 5 years ago. You can find the one I have HERE. The marble race game comes with many different track pieces that come in several […]

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