A few months ago I went out after dinner with an occupational therapist friend of mine. We spent the night catching up and geeking out on therapy techniques. She was describing a class she had taken on Ideational Praxis. I found an article online called, “A Theoretical Model of Ideation in Praxis” by Theresa May-Benson, […]
Archives for March 2013
What Am I: Vocabulary AND Articulation Extension Packs
Sometimes I struggle with clients who have language or vocabulary goals. I can’t teach EVERY vocabulary word they might need to know. So what to do? I find myself more and more trying to teach “strategies” to the child. When I have clients who come in who come in with vocabulary deficits and difficulty with […]
How to trick your clients into correcting their mistakes
Have you ever worked with a client who gets pretty upset when you try to correct them during speech therapy? (Please don’t say you’ve never had a client or student whose gotten upset during therapy…) I have had a few clients over the years who have INSISTED that they said their speech sound correctly OR […]
Lazy Speech Therapist: Monday hints
I found these really cute cardboard cutouts of burger parts at the Target dollar spot today. I think it would be great to add velcro to the back to work on articulation or maybe a adhesive picture pocket so that you could switch out pictures to work on articulation or other language targets. For direction […]
Light Box Therapy
Last year, there was a plethora of postings about using your own light table during therapy. I saw postings on Play at home mom, Testy Yet Trying and Speech Room News. This was also around the time that I started having some anxiety about the lack of fun sensory experiences I’d given to my then […]
Having your cake and Eating it too
Last week was my birthday (in case you missed it.) We celebrated by making Cakes in a Cup. This activity had more ingredients then I typically like to use. But I liked the theme and was really curious how Microwave cake tastes. (very, very, very dense.) I got the recipe from Makinglearningfun.com Here’s what we […]