It’s my first official Freebie Friday! As often as I can, I am going to try to provide a new freebie on Fridays. It may be a printable activity for use by parents, SLPs or others that work with children, a list of fun songs or fingerplays, or it could be a speech therapy related […]
My Tricks to Teaching the /r/ Sound
This is a post written primarily for my fellow SLPs, however many parents may find this post interesting as well 🙂 There are affiliate links to Amazon in this post for yourĂ‚Â convenience.Ă‚Â Oh the dreaded /r/. If you are an SLP reading this, you know what I mean. The /r/ can be SUCH a tricky […]
Some Fun Names for Speech Sounds
Sometimes when working with young children on the production of speech sounds, it is helpful to provide the little one’s with a fun label, or name,Ă‚Â for the sound(s) you are teaching. Providing a visual cue to go along with the label is also very helpful, to provide multisensory instruction. Several years ago I asked […]
Hand-Print Pumpkins Craft
I LOVE LOVE LOVE doing arts and crafts projects with my children, as well as in my therapy sessions. There are so many language learning opportunities when doing a craft project with a child or group of children: following directions, basic concepts and vocabulary development, etc. In the theme of fall and Halloween, this week […]
Cute Song to Help Teach Body Parts
I found this simple and cute song recently in a book, The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, that parents can sing to their infants and toddlers, (and SLPs can sing to their students), to help teach body parts. The song is called Baby’s Little Nose and was contributed by Karyn Everham. I sang it […]
There Was an old Lady Who Swallowed a…BAT!
I’m sure you remember the book from your childhood, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly? You know, that fat old lady that was ingesting cows and horses and flies? Well the chick just can’t get enough because that story has sparked the creation of several like books…and in this one she prefers […]
Speech Therapy Activities: Fall and Halloween
Though I am writing this post to share my favorite therapy activities with fellow SLPs, I think many parents will find this post informative as well…parents can use some of these activities at home with their children to have fun bringing in the season! It seems at the beginning of every school year, we SLPs […]
Five Little Pumpkins Activities
In my last post, I talked about 10 Fun Fall and Halloween Songs and Fingerplays that you can do with your child/client/students. I mentioned at the end of my post that the fingerplay Five Little Pumpkins has an array of activities that can go along with it, and I would just love to share some […]
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything: Language Building Activities
My ALL TIME most FAVORITE fall book is (Affiliate link->)Ă‚Â The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams. As a speech pathologist, I use this book with my preschool students up through about first or second grade to work on listening, answering “wh” questions, sequencing, etc. As a parent, I […]
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