Fast...Faster....Fastest!!!

I cannot get enough of wind up toys. There are so many ways to use them and there are lots of posts with lists of how to use them in various ways during speech therapy. This isn't one of them though. This is just my excitement that I've been getting to use them along with a recent product addition of mine. Click here for the link.

Today we went through practicing these words in a structured manner and then toward the end of the session we got out the wind-up toys and were able to practice these patterns as we compared two describing which one was faster or slower. Then we were able to pick out 3 wind up toys and begin describing which one was fast, faster and the fastest. We could also order them in the opposite direction for slow, slower and slowest. Having races between different sets of wind up toys never gets old. There's always a new variable to throw in and compare. Kids are practicing this language structure and they don't even realize it though all the laughter. Join in! It's a great time!

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Interactive Articulation Notebook and Articulation Homework Practice Pages- What is the difference?

Every year is a little bit different. It all depends on student needs, SLP needs and most importantly, SLP ideas to help cover all the bases. For the last 5 years or so, I've utilized student spirals to keep all of their student work in that we practice during our speech sessions. It started out as a way for my para and me to see what the other had worked on, plus it was a built-in way to review what was worked on the previous session. The bonus to all of this was that I was able to send the spiral home at the end of the school year and that was what the student could practice and review over the summer. Win-Win!

Two years ago I discovered Interactive Language Notebooks. I know, I was late to the game, but none the less, I was so excited to use them. We would put language and articulation practice pages into the same notebook. Each student's spiral was individualized. The language resources were easy to change and modify to be able to target all kinds of language skills. That summer I decided I wanted to jump into a more structured way to target articulation in the same interactive way. That's how the Interactive Articulation Notebook resource came about. I wanted to be able to practice a target sound in a specific position of the word multiple ways. Having the child participate and keeping their hands busy at the same time seemed like a good fit. With the Interactive Articulation Notebook, there is the opportunity for cutting, gluing, sorting and coloring along with the speech sound production practice.  I used this all of the last school year! I have it divided up into early developing sounds, later developing sounds or a complete bundle!


As I was thinking about this school year and setting goals for myself, I decided that I wanted to try to implement home practice again. We've been short-staffed for so long that an organized home practice program fell to the bottom of the list of things to get done. It's definitely not something that students are penalized for if they do not do it, but they are rewarded if they do it. I needed something that they could quickly practice at home and something that I could quickly grab and modify to their level. I didn't want them to have to spend time coloring for decoration, cutting or gluing. I figured if they saw it as something they could quickly do and be done with they'd be more apt to practice at home. I knew I had a couple of pages in the Interactive Articulation Notebook, but I wanted to build upon those pages. That brought me to developing the Articulation Homework Practice Pages. This resource has 8 different ways to practice a small set of target words for each target pattern. It may be that they are check-marking a box to show that they practiced, it may be filling in a circle, drawing a line with different colors each time they practice or filling in a different color of the rainbow each time they practiced. I use a 3 prong folder for homework practice, so this resource is definitely print, hole punch and go! I purposefully designed it to be at the word level, so you could use it as designed, add a carrier phrase, use it in a structured sentence, have the child generate a sentence using the word, or have the child make a story using each of the words on the page. I have the resource divided into early developing sounds, later developing sounds or a complete bundle!

I am currently using both for all of my articulation students. The Interactive Articulation Notebook during speech sessions and the Articulation Homework Practice Pages for their homework folders. So far it's been easy prep and has saved me a ton of time! I hope you enjoy it as well.

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