I’m always looking for super simple and silly activities to use in therapy. I enjoy creative crafts and prefer to use manipulatives or real life activities within my therapy sessions. But some days I need to take data-or I didn’t have any inspirations and I use worksheets that I might typically send home for homework […]
5 Strategies for Working with that “Shut Down Kid.”
Has this ever happened to you? You pull out a worksheet or activity and the student says: “I hate speech,” “I already know that-I’m not stupid you know.” “Your wasting my time” Or the dreaded-shut down-where they just stare at you are refuse to do anything. You try explaining why they need to work on […]
Change it up with a new speech space
Do you struggle with students carrying over their skills to the classroom? Save these ideas for later in the year. When you think of carryover, one of the things we want our students to do is to be able to recreate the same skills in a variety of environments. So it makes sense to practice […]