Does your brain get stressed out when you are trying to teach you/me? I’ve read suggestions that you should avoid teaching or requiring personal pronouns I/me/you (particularly with autism) because the concepts are too abstract and that it might be better to refer to the child by name. Understanding pronouns is an important first step […]
Halloween Speech Therapy Activities
We love to celebration Halloween in my speech therapy room. I live in the Halloween capitol of the world (self-proclaimed) so there are generally no restrictions on celebrations. I’m bringing you a round up of my favorite Halloween speech therapy activities as well as a new freebie! Quick Halloween Speech Therapy Games: I purchased most […]
One more Squinkie therapy idea…
Just one more quick Squinkie post and then I’m done for at least another few months. One of the things that I like about Squinkie’s is that it allows me to use my clients favorite things for motivation. Here was a quick activity I did with one client who needed to work on he/she pronouns […]
How to make your own HE/SHE card decks
I came across a great website last fall called: http://www.senteacher.org. It’s an FREE site that allows you to print certificates, flashcards and some therapy materials. If you work with students on emotions, you definitely want to check this site out. There is an option to create a “Facial Fan,” Thought Bubbles to print out and Face […]
Scrambled Egg Sentences
I have several clients who have significant difficulty creating grammatical correct sentences during conversational speech. Two of them have goals for sequencing a group of words to make a sentence. We’ve used some great worksheets from Linguisystem’s No Glamour Grammar books. But after awhile, we were starting to get a little bored. One thing I […]
More Squinkie Syntax, please
For the record, I don’t receive any kickbacks nor do I own any stock in Squinkies. Yet, here I sit with another “Squinkie” activity. Squinkies are tiny soft plastic action figures. You can get sets of different super heroes, princesses, pokemon, and cars characters among others. (FYI, Costco has sets of 3 for Princesses and […]
