Do you do Elf on a Shelf? I was initially hesitant. The first year I had our elf, I forgot where I hid him. For 2 weeks I ran into the room expecting to see a decapitated Elf that our dog had chewed up. It was stressful. The second year I started seeing some cute […]
Holiday Perspective Taking: Freebie
I started working on this product in October of 2013. I didn’t get it finished before Christmas and have been slowly chipping away at it during the last year. I really like my Halloween Flip Flap trick or treating activity and wanted to incorporate that idea into a Christmas activity with a perspective taking theme. I don’t […]
Getting Hip with the Middle Schoolers-Using Vine videos for Sequencing & Story Retell
Although it’s probably NOT hip to say “hip.” I’m always looking for new activity or ideas to engage my older clients and students. Vine allows users to create a 6 second video which automatically loops. Users can post the videos on social media sites. A quick word of caution: A lot of Vine videos are inappropriate for […]
Swap & Share Binders-A retro Slam book product & Giveaway!
Did you ever have a SLAM book growing up? I remember making one with my friends when I was in Junior High. (Yes, I’m old enough to have gone to junior high and not middle school). My friends and I recorded everything it the book-Our favorite bands, books, and movie lines. I’m sure we wrote […]
State Fair Conversations
WE are pretty proud of our State Fair here in Minnesota. Each year over 1.7 million people attend our fair. So it’s probably no surprise that most of our conversations start with “Are you going to the fair?”-and quickly progress to “What did you eat?” Or maybe that’s just my conversations. We had a great time. I […]
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 […]
Organization: Make your own Speech Kits
I LOVE using manipulatives in therapy. Most of my clients are more motivated to participate in activities when there are objects involved. If I have a client who is struggling with a language concepts, I may move back towards objects-or pair objects with worksheets/picture cards to see if it improves their comprehension. There are commercially […]
What’s New at Speech2u: April/May edition
Once a month, I take some time to share what I’ve been working on. I completely forgot to post last month, so I’m catching you up on the last two months of products. Nothing Minimal about these Pairs: Fronting/Backing: This is the third product my minimal pairs products. This one focuses on fronting/backing. It includes 55 […]
The Eye contact debate
Should you encourage eye contact for children on the autism spectrum? When I first started working as a speech language pathologist, it was common to see goals such as “Johnny will sustain eye contact for 5 minutes” or “Johnny will maintain eye contact for 90% of a conversation.” This is a great goal if your […]
Recycled Guest Posts: Inferencing
I’m recycling some guest posts I did over the last year while I am on vacation. I hope you are having a great week! ************************** One of my favorite skills to work with older children is inferencing. So I’m really excited (and a little nervous) about my first guest post for Carrie’s first year […]
