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True story: I once promised a kid a cartwheel if he finished his work. He finished. The cartwheel did not go the way I pictured, but we both got a good laugh and he kept showing up, which was the actual goal. That's pretty much my whole approach. I will do almost anything to get a kid invested in their own goals, and I've been doing it as a speech-language pathologist since 1997, which means I'm coming up on 30 years. My specialties are early language, autism, and speech sound disorders, with specialized training in the Hanen "It Takes Two to Talk" program and PROMPT levels 1 and 2.
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Slam Dunk Perspective Taking: Speech Therapy, Pragmatics, Social language
This FREEBIE download focuses on teaching identifying emotions, perspective taking and social problem solving using social scenarios. Students are asked to define other's emotions or thoughts in a basketball themed activity.
Audience
This download is appropriate for Speech language pathologists, Social skills groups or Special educations working with students with Autism Spectrum disorders. Age ranges are later elementary to middle school.
Targeted Skills
Theory of Mind
Perspective Taking
6th - 8th
Speech therapy finger plays: Halloween, spatial concepts, expressive language
Repetitive stories and finger plays are effective tools to incorporate in speech therapy. This download includes the classic: 5 Little Pumpkins rhyme as well as an original song/fingerplay called "Trick or Treaters at your Door." These motivating finger plays help improve comprehension, verbal expression and joint attention.
Audience
This download would be appropriate for preschool to kindergarten age students.
Suggested Targets
Descriptions
Pronouns
Conversation
Requesting
Spatial concep
PreK - K
Articulation K and G: Pictured Silly Stories & Word Lists
Silly stories are similar to Mad Libs fill in the blank stories and are highly motivating for students. I've used my silly stories words lists for years, but always struggled with getting independent productions from non-readers.
Each of the targeted word lists contains the target phonemes separated by noun, verb, and adjective. Definitions sheets are included to encourage vocabulary development
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Audience
This download would be appropriate for
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Minimal Pairs S to F, Phonology, Articulation
Minimal pairs are an effective way to teach students to discriminate sounds receptively and expressively. I'm excited to be offering this freebie sampler packet featuring s vs. f minimal pairs.
Targeted Minimal Pairs
/s/ vs. /f/
Contents
2 Pages of Minimal pairs for 10 total minimal pairs (ex. vase/base)
30 activity ideas
2 Pages of Minimal pair sentences for home or school.
2 pages rebus stories
2 Black and White Homework pages for minimal pairs
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Not Specific
Back to School Verbs
Target back to school verbs to address vocabulary, syntax and verb tense forms. Each verb has a teaching sheet that contains each verb tense form and three activities to target that verb. Perfect for carryover of skills to home.
Audience
This download would be appropriate for preschool and early elementary students. I have used them with older students who have Autism or Down Syndrome.
Targeted Skills
Regular past tense verbs
Irregular past tense verbs
Verb tense forms (future, present,
Not Specific
Silly Story Fill-in Word lists: K and G
I love the idea of Mad Libs® but always struggle with coming up with articulation targets to use in therapy.
Each of the targeted word lists contains the target phonemes separated by noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Vocabulary ranges from basic (egg) to more advanced (renege.) This activity would also work well in a blended group to address vocabulary.
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Audience
This download would be appropriate for early elementary to middle school students
Not Specific
Easter Jokes: Pragmatic language, multiple meaning words, humor
Jokes are one of my favorite methods for addressing multiple meaning words and humor with my students. Most of my language impaired students struggle with language based humor and require explicit instruction in why jokes are funny. This download focuses on jokes which sound similar or use multiple meaning words.
Contents
12 Easter themed jokes
Anchor chart for humor
2 graphic organizers for explaining the joke
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Flip Flap Knock Knock Jokes: Humor, Vocabulary, Social skills
Not Specific
Tongue Twisters-Articulation
Watch me tackle these tongue twisters is a fun way to practice articulation skills while working to improve intelligibility.
Students spin the spinner to determine their next move. As they place their fingers on the game board, they practice their articulation skills.
This download includes:
1 game board
Blank game board
12 tongue twister cards
game spinner
3rd - 8th
Ninja articulation: prevocalic and vocalic /r/
Are your students obsessed with character card games like Pokemon? This download contains three Ninja Articulation card games which are played similar to the game of War. Students turn over cards and battle other Ninja's based on strength, power or experience. There are three levels of game play included for the following sounds:
/ar/, /air/, /er/, /r/, /ire/, /or/, /ear/
7 Worksheets with word lists to practice or send home are also included.
2nd - 6th
2:51
Size of the Problem: Emotion Vocabulary and Problem Solving
Have you ever had a student who had extreme reactions to small events such as not being able to go first in a game? Working on reaction size and emotional vocabulary can work to give them the language that they need to use when they are upset.
This short video includes a popular video activity I did to help my students identify different sizes of reactions and being able to match them to different sized problems.
SLPs who have used my other social cognition products say…
"Works for pretty
3rd - 6th
Guess What Christmas FREEBIE
Do you love the game Guess Who but wish that there were more options to work on different vocabulary items? Guess What is a similar idea. 2 Templates are included-one for the current Guess Who Game (circa 2014) and one for the Electronic Guess Who game. In addition a bonus Christmas topic worksheet is included to address conversation skills.
1st - 3rd
BHSM: Flip Flap Freebie
I'm a little obsessed with using Flip Flap Books in therapy. I thought the would be a great way to promote speech and language therapy during Better Hearing and Speech Month. You could assemble a few and then place them on the tables in the teacher's lounge.
Contents
One Flip/Flap book template
Pages for speech, language, voice, fluency and pragmatics.
Check out my other FLIP/FLAP products
Flip/Flap Definitions
Flip/Flap Listening Comprehension
Flip/Flap Holiday Gifts
Flip/Flap Jokes
one f
Not Specific
Easter Egg Barrier Activity: Freebie, Speech Therapy
Barrier activities are an excellent tool for teaching presupposition, description skills and helping students learn to use specific descriptions. This download includes:
Graphic organizer to teach descriptive vocabulary
6 colored easter egg pictures
12 compare/contrast eggs
compare/contrast worksheet.
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1st - 5th
What Am I Holiday extension Micropacket.
This game is an add on to the product: What am I: Vocabulary, Definitions and Describing. All of the target words feature holiday vocabulary
The download includes:
Game board containing 36 targets
Custom Dice
Directions sheet
If you like this product, please check out What Am I vocabulary definitions for a variety of teaching sheets and graphic organizers to aid in teaching vocabulary.
K - 3rd
Adjectives Halloween Feely Box
I've always been fascinated by feely boxes. I'm starting to use them in therapy to target descriptive vocabulary and adjectives. Halloween is the perfect time to introduce a feely box into your room.
Contents
Page 3 Cauldron Picture
Pages 4-5 Feely Box Content Pictures
Page 6 Adjective Pictures
Page 7 Sentence Strips
Pages 8-9 Colored/BW Worksheet
Targeted concepts
wet/dry, slimy, good/bad, bumpy, smooth, soft/hard.
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Flip Flap Definitions
Not Specific
Add IT up: Cookies and Cocoa, Open Ended speech therapy game, articulation
This is a quick play game you can use during a variety of different activities. Take turns choosing a picture and adding up the points. The player with the most points wins. You will probably need a calculator to play this game. Use this game during articulation, language or other drill type of activities.
This download includes:
Directions
32 Game cards
16 black cards to create your own therapy targets.
2nd - 8th
Math
Capture the Gold: Open Ended Reinforcement Game
Your students will love this open ended game. Simply print, cut out the leprechauns and place standing up on the table. Students take turns using a straw and a cotton swab to try to knock down the leprechauns and steal the gold.
Not Specific
Build a Turkey-Syntax FREEBIE
Target syntax and sentence structure with this build a turkey FREEBIE. Students choose feathers and complete the sentences in order to create their turkey.
Audience
This download would be appropriate for early elementary aged students
Suggested Targets
Is/are
Was/Were
Third person pronouns
Possessives
Contents
40 fill in sentences for syntax practice
Turkeys
Directions and activity suggestions
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Irregular Verbs
Regular Verbs
Not Specific
Speech MVP trading cards: FREEBIE
I love the idea of using trading cards to work on identifying other people's interests, starting to remember information about other people and identifying common areas for conversation in social skills groups. This download consists of a set of printable trading cards as well as a Speech MVP baseball diamond with game activity ideas.
3rd - 5th
AAC, Sequencing, Vocabulary: Santa Berries
I really enjoy incorporating hands on activities with my students. I find that it increases their engagement in our speech therapy sessions while providing me an opportunity to assess their skills in a less structured environment. I still want to make sure that I am maximizing my time, so I started creating associated activities targeting language goals that would accompany the activity.
Audience
This download would be appropriate for younger groups to work on vocabulary with picture sequen
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About the store
Experience
True story: I once promised a kid a cartwheel if he finished his work. He finished. The cartwheel did not go the way I pictured, but we both got a good laugh and he kept showing up, which was the actual goal. That's pretty much my whole approach. I will do almost anything to get a kid invested in their own goals, and I've been doing it as a speech-language pathologist since 1997, which means I'm coming up on 30 years. My specialties are early language, autism, and speech sound disorders, with specialized training in the Hanen "It Takes Two to Talk" program and PROMPT levels 1 and 2.
Teaching style
Here's a secret about me. I am always hunting for the easiest possible activity that still gets the job done. I used to call them my lazy activities, until that started landing badly in IEP meetings. Hitting cards with a fly swatter. Reading word cards in a ridiculous celebrity voice. The kind of thing that takes me thirty seconds to set up and somehow gets a kid to do fifty more reps than a worksheet ever would. But I'll happily put in the prep when the prep is the point. Some of my favorite activities are the interactive ones where the kid physically places a card down to make a choice, because that little bit of movement is doing real work for learning, not just keeping hands busy. I lean on movement and humor, and mostly on whatever that particular kid is into that week, and I break every goal down to the smallest step so they're always working right at the edge of what they can do.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Asha Certified, Kidcommunicate's TOP 75 websites for Speech Language Pathology for 2015
My own education history
BA Communication disorders Augustana College, Rock Island IL
MS University of Wisconsin Oshkosh-Communication disorders
Additional biographical information
I'm a Minnesota girl, which means I spend a solid chunk of every year hoping and dreaming about spring. When I'm not working or making products, you'll find me cooking, doing puzzles, keeping up with my teenage son, and slowly learning to stay upright on my paddle board. I also sing in the shower with real commitment and quietly daydream about getting discovered on The Voice.
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