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Thoughts about therapy
ideas Such precious resources (or therapy games and activities) are discovered and developed in various ways:
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Visitors' contributions The following great ideas were sent by visitors to this site. FROM Sarah Miller in South Australia ABC Kids A website full of FREE information and activities relating to ABC programs for kids of all ages. www.abc.net.au/abckids ABC Parents A website full of FREE parenting information covering a range of topics for children aged 0-8 years. www.abc.net.au/parenting A Kid’s Heart A FREE play and learn website for children and their teachers. akidsheart.com A - Z Teacher Stuff FREE online lesson plans, thematic units, theme resources, teacher tips, articles, educational resources, and more. www.atozteacherstuff.com BBC FREE learning resources for ages 4 – 16, categorised by subject and age level. This website also contains information for parents and teachers. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/index.shtml Between the Lions A wealth of literacy resources—activities, quick tips, recommended books and curriculum materials—for you to share with your emerging reader, all FREE. pbskids.org/lions Can Teach Lots of FREE lesson plans, resources and links for teachers. www.canteach.ca/index.html Catholic Education S.A. Click on “teaching and learning” for a wide range of FREE teaching resources. There is even a folder specifically for speech pathology resources, which have been created by Speech Pathology students participating in the Student Assessment Clinic. http://online.cesanet.adl.catholic.edu.au Chateau Meddybemps This FREE website is designed to enable parents and teachers to help young children strengthen learning skills in unique and playful ways. www.meddybemps.com Daisy Maths A program designed to help young Australians to enjoy learning maths. It is specially made to be FREE, fun, and informative for Australian kids aged 3-12. www.daisymaths.com.au Do 2 Learn FREE educational games and resources for students with special needs. www.do2learn.com EFL Playhouse FREE resources for teachers of young English Language Learners including educational games, songs, fingerplays, action rhymes, craft ideas, printable materials and tongue twisters. www.esl4kids.net Examples of Materials that can be adapted for therapy An AMAZING list of web resources for speech, language and literacy development www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/sptherapy.html Fact Monster FREE information and resources for school subjects including definitions for grammatical elements, flash cards for maths, and a whole range of other stuff… Unfortunately as this is an American web site, most of the ‘social studies’ information and activities are U.S.A specific. www.factmonster.com/homework Free Clip Art Pictures Dozens of categories that have fairly large images, as well as useful links to other sites providing free pictures, animations, photos and fonts. www.free-clipart-pictures.net FREE - Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceAn American government website offering an extensive range of FREE teaching resources for schools. www.free.ed.gov Game Goo FREE educational games for kids teaching a range of topics including language and math. Some of them are a bit gross so likely to appeal to the pre-teen male students. It is necessary to have speakers to hear the instructions/sound effects/etc. www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeypt.html Games Kids Play FREE - rules for children’s playground games and rhymes for activities like jump rope, clapping games, etc. http://www.gameskidsplay.net Gayle’s Preschool Rainbow FREE early childhood education lesson plans and ideas for pre-k and kindergarten teachers arranged by theme. www.preschoolrainbow.org Giggle Poetry Hundreds of FREE fun and funny poems on a huge range of topics. www.gigglepoetry.com Kinder art A huge collection of FREE online art lesson plans and art education information. www.kinderart.com Love & Reilly Speech and language resources and information about literacy and learning for supporting students with language or learning difficulties. www.loveandreilly.com.au Mama Lisa's World A FREE collection of children’s songs and nursery rhymes from around the world in English and in the original languages. Some songs include MP3's and Midi music. www.mamalisa.com/world Mindwing Concepts Educational tools for parents, teachers, and professionals working with children K-12 with learning disabilities, dyslexia, and ADD/ADHD. http://mindwingconcepts.com/home.asp PBS Kids A huge range of FREE music, games and activities for kids based around popular TV shows, including Sesame Street, Animalia and many more. http://pbskids.org Pelican Talk Speech Therapy Resources that have been created by speech pathologist, Lucia Smith. FREE fact sheets are available on a range of topics. www.pelicantalk.com Primary Games Fun site for preschool and elementary kids that features FREE educational games, printable colouring pages, holiday activities, crafts, and more. www.primarygames.com Reading is Fundamental Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the a non-profit children's literacy organization. Kids will really enjoy the Reading Planet Club and it’s all FREE! www.rif.org Read Write Think FREE resources in reading and language arts instruction. www.readwritethink.org Royal Institute for deaf and blind children This link will take you to the Royal institute for deaf and blind children’s list of useful web resources. www.ridbc.org.au/resources/index.asp Scholastic This site has lots of great deals on books and resources to purchase, but the best part is the FREE downloads of curriculum resources around teaching ideas for books such as possum magic, wombat stew, and many more. There are also free solo downloads. www.scholastic.com.au SCORE The Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE) site has a range of FREE ideas and activities for teaching different topics and concepts. The Phonics Link page has a few nice ideas for teaching phonemic and phonological awareness. They are primarily targeted at younger kids but could be modified for older students.www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/Phonics_Link/classroom.html Talking Child Practice speech and language with these FREE online learning activities.www.talkingchild.com/Games.aspx Tar Heel Reader Here you’ll find a collection of easy-to-read books on a wide variety of topics. These books are all FREE and available to read online or download. You can also make your own books quickly and easily using this program. http://gb-cs.cs.unc.edu/TarHeelReader The Teacher’s Corner FREE lesson plans, thematic units, experiments, puzzles and worksheets.www.theteacherscorner.net Teaching Ideas This site contains lesson ideas, activities and resources, and they're all FREE for you to use in your classrooms! http://www.teachingideas.co.uk TLS Books FREE worksheets to print, reading tips, books reviews and activities for preschool through fifth grade. www.tlsbooks.com Vocabulary.com Home of the ‘Vocabulary University’, This website provides FREE word puzzles and activities for students in grades 3-12 to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills. www.vocabulary.com Vocabulary.co.il Improve your vocabulary while having fun. FREE test preparation & vocabulary building activities for K-12 & ESL Students. www.vocabulary.co.il/ Zozanga FREE Ideas for building English language skills including grammar and vocabulary. This website is designed for ESL users but will be helpful for children developing their language abilities. www.zozanga.com And many more…Professor David A. Koppenhaverd has compiled an incredible array of useful websites for reading, language and literacy. This website contains links to all of the resources he has uncovered. www.furl.net/member/koppenhaverd
FROM Janet Tilstra St Cloud MN Caroline: Here are the resources: Phonology/Speech programs FROM Joan Chomak, CA, USA (SLP/CCC) Hi Caroline,
Let me know if you add this to my suggestions.Regards, Joan FROM Suzanne McBride Mama to Hayden 2;1 (apraxia) I want to share some great tips our SLP has tried on our two year old that have had fantastic results. Hayden is a very big and physical boy for his age, so we start by getting him into some really fun things, using his body. We use a HUGE red ball and one of us sits on her knees with the ball between her and Hayden and takes both of his hands and gently pulls him over the ball, while he giggles. Then we hold him sitting on the ball and rhythmically bounce him, saying, "Bounce, bounce, bounce." It is a great exercise for a beginner and we have gotten both "B's" and "D's" out of him this way. Then we let him bounce the ball and he chants the bounces as well. Another thing we have tried is marshmallow fluff, that very sticky but delightful to a child stuff. (It cannot be as easily manipulated and eaten as a regular mini marshmallow.) We put it on his bottom lip, and as he uses his teeth to get it off, he is learning the "F" sound. It can also be put onto the roof of his mouth, so tongue and roof make a connection, and between his bottom lip and teeth, to make his tongue work a bit, although he doesn't see it as work. The interesting thing to watch is when we give him a small "Teddy Grahams" type cracker dipped into the fluff, and he literally has to stop and process the two different flavors and consistencies. We have only been doing this for just over a month, three times a week, and it is amazing the things that I have learned about behaviors I thought were just Hayden's as an individual. My husband and I do dog training, and I can tell you all that dog obedience is more for the owner than the dog, and as a parent, I think I am coming along as well as Hayden! Hugs to all of you and yours on this sometimes tearful, most of the time rewarding road. FROM Caroline Pooler - Mom to Joel 4;9 with oral and verbal dyspraxia One thing that has worked
with my son has been what I call the "Cat, Cow, King Game".
His slp lines up picture cards with the first 3 facing up and a pile of
cards facing down in the forth position. She would point to each card,
modelling the sounds if necessary then flip over the last one which
would also be a k-sound word. Eventually my son got so good at this game
it was hard to keep up with him. (His slp was looking for a good k-sound
not necessarily the correct pronunciation of the whole word.) As his speech has gotten
better his slp has varied the game by putting in sentences. Here's a list of some of the variations: Cat, Cow,
King, xxx; The Giraffe can Laugh at the Calf but not the xxx; The Sheep can
take a Shower but doesn't have xxx. His slp expects my son to say the
complete sentence not just the target words so that he gets practice in
saying sentences too. The great part about this game is that the slp can
easily choose words with the target sound at any place in the word.
We've used this game to get the k, f, g, v and sh along with firming up
my son's use of m, p, d, b and t. We also play the game at home. His slp
will photocopy the cards for us. FROM Andrea Playter Minnesoda, Manitoba, Canada (SLP) Hi Dr Bowen! I am enjoying your site. My clinical skills might be a bit rusty as I have been working as a consultant for the last 10 years but it seems to me that every child loves to look for hidden treasures. This is an idea for articulation therapy but it can be used for kids working on phonological goals and/or language goals. It can use real objects or pictures. It can target sound goals at a word, phrase or sentence level. Maybe it's too simple! All you do is hide your picture cards (with pictures of target words or vocabulary) or objects around your therapy room and the child hunts for them. Each time s/he finds one s/he must tell what s/he found either just the word or using a sentence or a carrier phrase (such as "I found a ..." or "Look there's a..." or whatever phrase you want). Additional language goals can be targeted by having the child tell where the card/object was found or making a sentence out of the word. Turning out the lights and giving the child a flashlight makes the game extra exciting! FROM
Sasha
in England, (Mummy to 2 year old Francesca)
With this in mind I made a video of myself doing some mouth exercises, singing songs about her face, sticking out her tongue, you know the kind of thing. I also got a couple of her favourite dolls and toys and stuck them in front of the camera with activities and rhymes to reinforce her therapy ideas. She absolutely adores the tape and will usually copy and/or do as asked by the TV. She thinks it's terribly funny to see me on there, and is more inclined to cooperate with no pressure. Sometimes the tape runs and she just sits and plays with toys but will occasionally look up and stick her tongue out or laugh at something. It's great because it gives her another chance to practice these things in a no-pressure setting and it enables me to get on with something else for a few minutes ( Oh those were the days!) I hope some others can do this too. There is great scope for ideas there and I'm planning my next performance! FROM
Kimberly
Binford, Charlotte, NC, USA (SLP)
FROM
Mary
Buckner, Irving, Texas, USA (SLP)
We introduced a skill a week. The classroom teachers were taught how to reinforce them, AND we shared them with parents of our students. We are very pleased with the results and have had positive feedback from the parents. The skills are very loosely based on "Boys Town," and a couple of other similar programs, but those of you who are familiar with those programs will realize that these skills are not the same and are more appropriate to elementary school children. Also, let me hasten to add that we used it with the entire school (not just language impaired children). I hope those of you whose children are experiencing behavior problems resulting from inability to adequately express themselves might be able to use our "BARKSS." The order of presentation is not particularly important.
FROM Amy Lee
Taipei, Taiwan (Mother) FROM
Lisa
Rafael, North Carolina, USA (Parent) FROM
Bev
Pleasants, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (Parent)
In the above description the "S" is being practiced at the front of each sound. However, to practice "S" at the end of the sound, she draws her line from the vertically written vowel "A" to the centered circled "S" to create "AS" (ace); ES (ease); IS (ice) OS (oce). It is interesting to observe my son during this because he watches the Therapists' mouth in the mirror as she originates the sound and then he will watch himself in the mirror as he repeats the sound. The other great thing my son learned from this activity was letter recognition. FROM
Alysia,
South Mississippi, USA (Parent) She loves to look in the mirror, and this works. Even better was the idea to put the icing (or lipstick) on her lips and let her make a circle on the mirror. This exercises her lips in order to make the "w" sound. Her mouth muscles are all out of wack, and it seems that using the mirror helps a lot. Hope this helps someone else as it has helped my child. FROM
Kristen
Puleo, New Paltz, NY, USA (SLP)
1. Therapist and child
take turns. I feel this activity increases vocabulary development, auditory memory, reasoning skills, and promotes word finding strategies for the student. So when the child experiences word retrieval during a conversation, they are cued to use their knowledge base that they have practiced with others. This is a great activity for parents to play in the car. My students have had a lot of fun fooling each other. FROM Timothy
Carlin, Nelson, New Zealand FROM Mai Cheung SALT I read the case study in CLTT. Congratulations on the forun in IJLCD - it's great! Also, I have bought several copies of your book because MY copy always seems to be on loan to a clients or colleagues! Have you considered a Cantonese translation? Anyway, back to why I am really here! It looks like I am the first to contribute to this message board (after Joan that is!). I want to share with colleagues an apparently indestructible (plastic) toy called OPTIC WONDER. This little gizmo comprises a mirror, compass, magnifying glasses (that can be configured to be a monocle, telescope or binoculars) and various hinges and screw-devices. It is irresistible to 3 and 4 year olds, and I use it all the time to elicit language samples. I will not make it to the Sydney conference next year, but hope to be in Adelaide in 2000. Will you be presenting a workshop. I will make myself known to you, if I may, if we both make it to South Australia. Thank you for ALL the information. FROM Joan Chomak, CA, USA (SLP/CCC) "I am a speech path in private practice in California...I have often thought about making a list of commercially available games that are good for language. Would you like to start a category like that? I assume that the ones we have in the USA are available in Australia.Here are some for starters: Trivial Pursuit for Juniors Outburst Junior (this has one minute timer and requires rapid divergent naming with many stim. items. 20 Questions for Kids Many Ravensburger games (from Germany) Sound Tracks (I.D. sounds with audio tape and bingo format) These commercially-available games are often much cheaper than the ones from the speech/language publishing companies. |
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