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Today, Tracy from Gold Country SLP is going to share her Speech Therapy Oops with you! Thank you to my friend Karen, The Pedi Speechie for suggesting this topic and hosting those of us who are brave enough to talk about mistakes made during speech therapy sessions. No one is perfect--we all make mistakes!  Who has heard of the game Apples to Apples? It's a lot of fun right? Great for communication, right? Yes. Well, maybe. There is a version of the game called Apples to Apples, Big Picture. It is a wordless, picture version of the game. Sounded great to me. I ordered it and decided to try it out with my sixth grade fluency student. We needed something new for therapy. My student was very excited to try the new game. I dealt the cards. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, each player has a "hand" of picture cards and there is a separate deck of word definition cards. One player flips over a definition card and each player tries to find the picture card in their han

We've all been there. Maybe you spent hours planning the "perfect" therapy idea, and it just blew up in your face. Maybe one your students reminded you, in case you forgot, that you always need to stay on your toes. Even the most experienced SLP has an "oops" moment from time to time. I'll start by sharing one of mine. I was a new graduate and working my CFY position. I was working in an outpatient setting, and had a patient scheduled who had already had an eval completed. As is usually the case, instead of the evaluation being mailed in beforehand, I had a whole 30 seconds to read up on the patient while also doing a meet and greet. I saw he had a target to produce /s/ words, so I thought, "Great! I actually have materials for this!" (This was in my pre-TPT days, when I barely knew how to do anything on my computer beyond online shopping.) We sat down, I let him pick out a game, and I explained to him that he was to say three words before each tu

Using core vocabulary with AAC users during your speech therapy session is an efficient and simple way to help build language in emergent communicators. Since core vocabulary is the most frequently used vocabulary in our language, it is wonderful because it can be used during ANY activity throughout the day. I have a number of students on my caseload who rely on AAC to communicate. I'd love to share a few simple ways that I use AAC during my therapy sessions. In case you are wondering, I do have some students using the LAMP app , and it was therefore simple to show you pictures with this communication system paired with an activity as an example. Please note, I am not an employee of Prentke-Romich Company (PRC) and am not receiving financial reward for writing about them or their products/ training in my post. It is a wonderful app and in my opinion, very much worth checking out- but again, this post is not meant to promote any single communication system. So, not matter what aide

Talk Like a Pirate Week is quickly approaching, and many SLPs ARRRRRR going to want to utilize this amazing theme in their speech therapy sessions. Thankfully, my friend Tracy over at Gold Country SLP is hosting this amazing linky party . I'm pretty pumped to join in! Lots of SLP TPT sellers and bloggers are walking the plank participating in this linky! Be sure to stop back and check out some more great pirate-themed products! First off, I need to tell you about my Ahoy! Following Directions with Embedded Concepts packet. It's packed with pirates and adventure. Oh, and it also provides you with ways to target following directions with concepts such as inclusion (all, and, all but one), sequence (first, second, middle, last), location (top, bottom, between, next to) & temporal (before, after, then, at the same time), and you can do it all while talking in a pirate voice, and, if you so desire, while wearing an eye patch. But no big deal. One buyer left this review: &qu

Alright, I am finally ready to show you all what my Speech Room looks like! Step right on in for the grand tour of speech: This school year, I decided to go with a green, silver and black color theme. Okay, fine... a green, silver, black and SPARKLE color theme. By the time I had finished hanging up all of my glitter ribbon and my glitter name desk magnets, there was pretty much glitter everywhere. I made the "Speech Therapy" banner hanging down over my board (okay... I bought a do-it-yourself kit at Pat Catan's, and used my mother-in-law's white sticker letters). The awesome"I Can" bulletin board I purchased from Natalie Snyders on TPT here . I surrounded it with sparkling (duh) silver ribbon and green and white chevron ribbon. Here is another view of the "I Can" Bulletin Board and my "Speech Therapy" banner... Here is a picture of my other bulletin board. I like to think that I have a special talent for choosing the nerdiest word pu