Preschool speech therapy

How do you teach toddlers and preschooler to love books? By making them an active part of the reading process!!Books are a perfect speech therapy tool for targeting everything from articulation, to wh-questions, to expressive language, to apraxia of speech! Not to mention they are a great way to build vocabulary and story retell skills.I am sharing FOUR types of books (and my favourite five of each type) that keep toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners students engaged the entire time…

Here are my best preschool speech therapy tips and tricks. They are sure to help you make the most of your speech therapy sessions with your little ones.

Are you looking for toys to use with toddlers in speech therapy? Here's a list of 10 favorite toys from an SLP. (links included)

Favorite toys for preschool speech therapy! Includes toys + games for a variety of speech and language targets .

We love using a transportation or vehicle theme in our speech therapy sessions as it is a theme you can use ANY time of year! Check out this easy speech therapy lesson plan you can use for your students!

Unearth a world of learning with our preschool bug-themed lesson plan! Boost expressive and receptive language skills through exciting games, catchy songs, and immersive toys, all designed for play-based speech therapy. Click the critters and venture into a fun, educational journey. A fantastic resource for little learners and speech therapists alike! Click to read!

Gross motor activities can keep your toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary students engaged in your speech therapy session for a long time because children are designed to MOVE! By incorporating movement activities in speech therapy, your students will not only have fun, but will learn quickly! Research has shown that movement is linked to memory and unfortunately, opportunities for movement are decreasing in school. As Speech Therapists, we can incorporate simple speech therapy activities…

The best way to help a child's speech and language development is through play. Here are 10 simple activities that you can do at home, including the key vocabulary to focus on, to help develop your child's speech and oral language. The key to these activities is about engaging with the child and using simple, useful language that matches the actions of play. This puts the language into context with what they are experiencing and gives them opportunities to hear, use and practice the language…

Using Critter Clinic toy in speech therapy - Critter Clinic makes the perfect tool for play-based speech and language therapy because it's designed to elicit so much language! In this blog post, I share the various speech and language skills you can target with this toy. Save this for reference later! | Speech is Sweet

Basic Concepts If you are not yet familiar with what basic concepts are and why they are important, be sure to check out THIS BLOG POST. Below you will find 3 groups of basic concepts that are often targeted in speech therapy. Temporal Concepts Temporal concepts are those related to time: before, after, first, next, l