Graph image by Creative Lessons Cafe Push-in therapy. In-class support. Co-teaching. Whatever you want to call it, going into the classroom to provide in-class support minutes to your students can definitely require some outside-of-the-box thinking if you’re not the one who has planned & is leading the lesson. I know–it’s hard sometimes as SLPs to let go of having a… Read More
Favorite Games for Final Consonant Deletion
As SLPs, many of us use games as general reinforcers while working on a variety of speech/language targets. A lot of times, the games may have nothing to do with the target we’re working on. Some games & activities I’ve been using this school year with my phono kids, though, have turned out to have great opportunities to work on… Read More
Speech Trading Post
Some of us bloggers got together to do a Speech Trading Post (shout out to the ladies of Sounds Like Fun for coming up with the idea!) where we swapped materials and used them in our therapy sessions. I got the chance to take Angela & Kim from Speech Trading Post’s “Bugs & Slugs” pack for a test drive. I… Read More
Paper, Pencil, and Paperclip Challenge
Let me start out this post by saying that I was NOT skilled in the art of improvising when I was doing therapy in grad school. Not. At. All. How times have changed… 🙂 I’m linking up with Felice over at Thedabblingspeechie for her paper, pencil, and paperclip challenge! I’m sure many of you have heard the quip from a… Read More
March Madness! Win a TpT Gift Certificate!
Many of you know, as you can tell from my blog name, that I love my Kansas Jayhawks. While our football team is generally less than stellar, Jayhawk fans can always look forward to basketball season and March Madness! This year, two Kansas teams are in the same bracket division in the NCAA tournament– the Jayhawks & the Wichita State… Read More
Community Helpers: Project-Based Learning
This year, my school district implemented Project-Based Learning (PBL) as everyone’s professional development project for the year. If you’re not familiar with Project Based Learning, it’s a teaching approach that’s very student-driven rather than teacher-driven, and students explore a real world problem/challenge/question of their choosing while exploring possible solutions through various methods– research, collaboration, etc… An excerpt from Edutopia explains… Read More