Medial L and Final L tic tac toe

This is the same idea as the R tic tac toe, only using L words. The student is told to say the word three times and then places a chip on the word.

Vocalic R tic tac toe

I have the student say the R word three times and then he or she may place a chip on the word. This game only works for a group of two, or a student and SLP. I have had students take this game home and play with a parent or sibling as a reinforcer.

Egg carton button Toss

I found this idea online and used it during the week before Easter break. You can't tell exactly by the picture, but inside the carton, there are numbers where the eggs would be. I only had 1 and 2 points in them, but you can choose the points. I had a student say the word or sentence three times. Then I had the students toss a button (the website I found it on suggested a penny) and see how many points they got. We kept score and found a winner based on the points. This is a way to make it so that students with only a small speech problem and students with a larger speech problem can compete, but not based on their speech skills (because sometimes that isn't fair).

Parts of a story braid

Fluffball with eyes = Characters in the story

Star = where the story takes place

Red, green, and blue fluffball = beginning middle and end of the story

Clothespin = "hookup" or problem in the story

Bow = resolution of the problem, and end of story

This little story braid helps students remember what parts of the story they need to tell when retelling a story. It's fairly easy to make, but I found that using just glue didn't make the fluffballs stay on very well, I had to sew them on with needle and thread.

Update: I made this after seeing someone use it and didn't know these are commercially available. This is my own simplified version, the original is called story grammar marker and here is where to buy it: http://mindwingconcepts.com/story-grammar-marker

Easy games with Artic Cards

There are loads of easy and fun games to play with artic cards. Of the games I have come across here are a few: Play go fish with the cards (multiple player game) play a matching game with the cards (multiple players or single player), you can play any regular board game and have the students use a few cards everytime it's their turn. You can use these cards for almost anything. I have found the Super Duper cards to be the best cards to use, they are however rather pricey. Here is the link to the website: http://www.superduperinc.com/products/view.aspx?stid=348

LINKS

Here is a cute blog of an SLP that has really good picture examples of ideas:

http://speechroomnews.blogspot.com/

The possibly best website for SLP activities on the web, a place for SLPs to share activities:

speakingofspeech.com

This website gives good tips to parents and also gives S/L activities:

http://mommyspeechtherapy.com/

This is a great website from MNSU for therapy materials:

http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html

This is a website for potential client's parents. This website is for the United Healthcare Children's foundation Inc. and gives grants to parents of children with health problems. I read through some of the information and many of the clients were given money for Speech/Language services.

http://www.uhccf.org/

Around the World

I didn't come up with this game, my fellow SLP student did. It is a game worth sharing. Print out pictures of each of the continents and place them around the room. The students have to travel around the world, saying one or two words three times before moving on to another continent. Sorry I have no pictures of this, but it isn't hard to imagine. This is a good game because they are up and about not just sitting at a table.