Organization: Can you believe I have even more speech kits?

Anyone who knows me CAN believe that.  I did get an award from work that I was most likely to be featured on a very special SLP version of Hoarders.

Here are the last kits that I made:

CVCV and CVCVC boxes

I use these a lot with my younger clients who are just learning how to imitate to teach how to mark syllables.  I’ve taken the Kaufman Apraxia course and so I set them up similar (based on what I could find) to some of her therapy targets.  We can pull these out and play with them or sometimes I like to hide them in rice or popcorn bins for my clients to find.

Alphabet Boxes

Years ago, I bought a set of alphabet boxes on Ebay.  It was similar to Lakeshore Learnings Alphabet tubs but about 1/2 the price.

I looked and I don’t think they sell them anymore.  Each box came with 10 small objects that started with each letter.  I even had a box of vowel sounds.  I’ve added to these boxes as I’ve found little objects.  I even created a box of /s/ blend objects.  I feel like /s/ blends are my arch enemy.  Once kids get them it improves their intelligibility so much that it is worth it.  But we always go through about a three month period where they just think I’m crazy and LOVE it when they put /s/ in front of anything.  Ssssssmiss Ssssssskellly?   Minimal pairs help some but not enough.  Pick up a bunch of Glad tupperware and some sticker paper and you could be on your way towards making these kits.  Here’s what’s in my /s/ blend box:

• Spiderman
• Spooky ghost
• Spiders
• Stick
• Stickers
• Stop sign
• Sponge Bob
• Star Wars figures
• Skate board
• Toy Slide

Social Language Kit

I’ve posted about this kit before.  I really enjoy working with clients who have pragmatic language difficulties-but there is ALOT of prep that goes into these groups.   I created this box so that I would have a lot of materials on hand-and hopefully decrease some of my prep time.

Most of the materials in this kit are designed to complement Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking® Curriculum.  To learn more about the Social Thinking® and the vocabulary listed below please refer to her website: www.socialthinking.com.

• Balanced Weight Scale from Learning Resources.  To work on conversational turn taking and balanced conversations.
• Jello Brain Mold I purchased from Target after Halloween to work on Flexible Thinking©  and also the ideas of different kinds of Social Smarts©.
• A Rock and a Flexible Brain© purchased from Social Thinking®.
• Mini Magnifying glasses purchased at a party goods store to focus on looking for social clues or being a Social Detective.
• Giant Body parts purchased at the dollar store to focus on Whole Body Listening concepts and Thinking with your eyes©.
• Magnetic Poetry Emotion Faces.  I like these because it breaks it down to what are the eyes feeling/what is the mouth feeling.
• Shoe NotePads to go with Jenna Rayburn’s In your Shoes Pragmatic Download as well as other perspective taking in your shoes activities.
• Chalkboard paper thought bubbles I purchased at Michaels.

This year I also added smaller Brain molds I picked up at Target and red, yellow, blue and green vase gems.   I had seen a post from the Speech House an awesome post about working on thoughts by placing marbles into a cup.  You can read the whole post HERE.   We use Zones of Regulation at the clinic, so I thought this would be a great way to reinforce the idea of zones with clients or students.  Each client gets a brain mold, and I just add gems throughout the session.

That’s it for kits that I have so far.  I’d like to create more concept kits.  Soft/Hard would be an easy one.  I already have a fabric and hard plastic potato head.  I could add stuffed animals/beanie babies and the harder action figure/toy.  Ex. Mickey mouse beanie, with plastic Mickey mouse toy.  Do you have great ideas for kits?  I can’t wait to hear about them!   As always, if you found this post helpful or interesting, I’d LOVE it if you could take the time to share with others on Pinterest by clicking on any of the above pictures.