I recently subbed in for a client I had over the summer with difficulty producing /r/. It took most of the summer to establish the /r/ and we were working on it at the word level. A few weeks ago, I filled in for her current speech language pathologist. What a difference a few months […]
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 […]
Gobble gobble pizza turkeys
I like using crafts and recipes in sessions when I can. It’s motivating for the kids and helps us to practice our speech and language targets in more of a carryover type of activity. This week we made pizza turkeys. We worked on following 2 step directions containing before, sequencing, paraphrasing directions, vocabulary, and articulation. […]
Hand Turkeys
This week I’ve been a little obsessed with hand turkeys. I used to make a fancy one with my preschool clients with feathers and a little Thanksgiving Poem. This year, I used them for almost everything. I think I got the original idea from a post on Pinterest about using the hand to cue Main […]
Perspective taking FREEBIE
Perspective taking is skill that is difficult for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Jill Kuzma has great information on Perspective taking skills on her blog. The games Guess who or Guess where can given you insight on a child’s perspective taking abilities. Many of my clients struggle with understanding that I have a a different character than […]
Halloween Paper Crafts
I was at Archivers (a scrapbook store) a few years ago (when I still had time to scrapbook.) They have die cut machines which allow you to punch shapes out of scrabooking paper. One of the punches was of a fence and the other one I made was of a house with a door that […]
Halloween masks
I used to have a whole box of masks and novelty headbands. “Ex. I’m a rabbit, I’m the devil etc.” _ that I would use in speech therapy. I left it at an on old job and found that I missed it. 1. Eye Contact/Facial Referencing: There’s nothing like putting on a pair of rabbit […]
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 […]
Multiple Meaning Words, Homophones, Homonyms
One part of my job involves providing virtual speech therapy to middle school and high school students. We use a webcam, and I can upload internet games, movies as well as write on a virtual whiteboard. Here are some of the online resources I use to introduce multiple meaning words: Videos: Youtube is a […]
Squinkies
There is a book I recommend to parents called, “Just Give Him the Whale: 20 ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise and Strengths to Support Children with Autism” by Paula Kluth and Patrick Scharz. It’s an easy read which gives ideas for teaching skills using interest areas of children diagnosed with ASD. I strongly […]
