Many times I ask parents if I can have a speech therapy session in their child's preschool class that week so that I can confer with the teacher and...
Importance of Working with Preschoolers in Their Classroom
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Speech Teletherapy vs. Traditional Speech Therapy
After more than 40 years practicing in my field of speech language pathology, I am still energized by my role in helping my clients as well as my...
Bring Your Beauty Kit to Speech Therapy for Fun
We have been reading "Ruby's Beauty Shop" by Rosemary Wells for several sessions with a little boy on the autism spectrum. He loves the book, as...
Mixing Puzzles and Playdoh in Speech Therapy Activities
Everyone has challenging preschoolers to work with who go through your therapy bag of activities quickly and you scratch your head trying to find...
Decorating for St. Patrick’s Day
Once again, I started my therapy session and it took off in a new direction. I had been to the grocery story before work and passed a grocery cart...
A Week of Firsts in Speech Therapy
As I look back at my week, I had several "firsts" as I went from home to home doing speech therapy. Yesterday, a 6 year-old I saw for the first time...
Splat the Cat Lesson Plan for Preschoolers in Speech Therapy
This winter just never seems to end (we're home AGAIN with schools closed and this beautiful fluffy stuff coming down all day), so the opportunity...
Using YOXO Construction to Liven Up Speech Therapy Sessions
I got a "Wow," and "Can I keep that?" just by taking the YOXObot Orig out of my therapy bag. My friend is working on his articulation goals and we...
What Articulation Norms Do You Use?
This is a great question and I often pose it to other private therapists that I meet with so I am keeping up to date with the latest. I regularly...
Kids Making Their Own Language Toys
Okay, it's an ice storm in the northeast today and I am once again stuck inside, so I found myself going through old pictures. I came across this...
Playonwords.com Named A Top Website for 2015
Thank you to Kidmunicate, for naming playonwords.com #12 in their "Top 75 Speech Pathology Websites / Blogs for 2015" based on nominations "and...
More Games for Teaching Preschoolers on the Autism Spectrum
Okay, here are some more of my favorite games to play with kids on the autism spectrum, teaching social language as well as language concepts to...
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