Photo Dice More great ideas from my colleague Gina Gladstone, CCC-SLP I am always looking for ways to use “standard” apps in creative ways for therapy. One of my favorite non-speech/language-specific apps is Photo Dice. This app allows me to create customized die using student-created artwork or photographs for practice during treatment sessions. I use Photo Dice to create die depicting target artic words.
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Lesson Plan using Pixar’s “For the Birds” You’ve got to love YouTube on the iPad! There are so many ways to utilize this tool and I’ve got one of my favorite lesson plans to share with you today. The write-up is a bit formal, but I’m trying out the same format we use in my district to share lesson plans. Content Objectives 1. Students
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Reading Comprehension Camp is a new app put out by Smarty Ears. I have been waiting for a reading comprehension app and this one is definitely worth purchasing. The app has 5 levels of reading passages ranging from 2nd to 7th grade. The passages can either be read aloud to students or students can read the passages aloud and record their own voice
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Videos, videos and more videos! All the ways to use the iPad camera in therapy. I work in an elementary school that houses 2 classrooms devoted to teaching students with high functioning autism. What this means for me is that at any given time a third to a half of my caseload is on the autism spectrum. And as many of you know, as
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Expanding: This is simply repeating what a child has said and expanding on it through the addition of more complex or descriptive language. For example, if a child states, “red car” you can easily expand on this phrase by saying “Yes, the red car drives fast.” Expansion is a great language strategy to use because you are using what the child is already interested
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I’ve started the new school year out with a free app that’s new to me called Educreations. It was recommended by my colleague, Gina Gladstone, as we compiled a list of the best speech and language apps. As I started this school year, I decided to adjust the way I lesson plan in order to be a bit more thoughtful about developing and providing
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STRATEGY # 2: Asking open-ended questions: This is something people do all the time, but being aware of the positive language implications can help us to be more cognizant of how and when we use this strategy throughout the day. An open-ended question is simply a question that allows the receiver to respond in a variety of different ways, thus providing increased opportunities to
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I am thrilled to include a post from a fellow SLP, Gina Gladstone, who has been using the iPad in therapy for longer than most. I thought I had a lot of apps! Gina is the queen of iPad apps related to speech-language therapy in our district and has so many wonderful ideas on how to incorporate apps into therapy. Looking forward to sharing
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For the parents…. I get asked this a lot, “What can I do at home to help my child with their language development?” There are endless opportunities throughout your day to encourage language development. And chances are, you are already using many of the strategies we as Speech-Language Pathologists use each day in therapy. Understanding what those strategies are, however, can help you to
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This week it was all about Dr. Panda. The app was certainly a hit with nearly every group. Although the app is designed for younger children (toddlers/preschoolers), I used it at the end of school-aged lessons focused on producing subject + verb + object combinations and past tense verbs. This is an interactive app that allows you to scroll through different scenes involving a
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