Speech Therapy Intervention
Planning speech therapy intervention can be difficult, especially when you have students that vary in age and disability. Below you will find baseline assessments, tutorials on how to teach specific skills, and comprehensive teaching resources.
Skill-Based Language Therapy
Are you looking for skill-based speech therapy intervention approaches to teach specific skills to your students with language impairments? The links below will help you plan your next speech therapy language intervention.
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✅ Assessment/Baseline Resource
⭐ Teaching Resource
🔎 Increase Your Knowledge Resource
🎯Goal Recommendation
🧸Therapy Toy or Game Recommendation
WH Questions Speech Therapy Intervention
General WH Questions for Speech Therapy Information
- ✅Free WH Questions Baseline Assessment -This free WH question baseline allows the therapist to collect data on who, what, where, when, and why questions. It is easy to use and has a version for PreK students, as well as elementary-age students.
- 🔎Blog Link: Normal WH Question Development -Use this resouce to report normal WH question development for your evaluations or IEPs. After you click the link, scroll to the section entitled Question Number 2.
- 🔎Website Link: Intervention Sequence -Get this FREE grammatical targets intervention hierarchy (Ebbels, S., & Owen Van Horne, A. 2023), which includes a treatment sequence for WH Questions in speech therapy.
- 🎯WH Question Goals -Copy and paste these WH question SMART goals into your next IEP or use them as a starting point for writing goals specific to your special education students.
Who Questions for Speech Therapy
- ⭐Who Question Activity Teaching Resource -This low-cost comprehensive resource includes a baseline assessment, teaching tools for explicit instruction, and flashcards that can be used to practice answering who questions using a hierarchy of complexity.
- 🔎Blog Post: How To Teach Who Questions
- 🎯Who Question Goals
What Questions for Speech Therapy
- ⭐What Question Teaching Resource -This low-cost comprehensive resource includes a baseline assessment, teaching tools for explicit instruction, and flashcards that can be used to practice answering what questions using a hierarchy of complexity.
- 🔎Blog Post: How to Teach What Questions in Speech Therapy
- 🎯What Questions Goals
Where Questions for Speech Therapy
- ⭐Where Questions Activities Teaching Resource-This low-cost comprehensive resource includes a baseline assessment, teaching tools for explicit instruction, and flashcards that can be used to practice answering where questions using a hierarchy of complexity.
- 🔎Blog Post: How to Teach Where Questions
- 🎯Where Question Goals
When Questions for Speech Therapy
- ⭐When Questions Teaching Resource-This low-cost comprehensive resource includes a baseline assessment, teaching tools for explicit instruction, and flashcards that can be used to practice answering when questions using a hierarchy of complexity.
- 🔎Blog Post: How to Teach When Questions
- 🎯When Question Goals
Why Questions for Speech Therapy
- ⭐Why Questions Teaching Resource-This low-cost comprehensive resource includes a baseline assessment, teaching tools for explicit instruction, and flashcards that can be used to practice answering why questions using a hierarchy of complexity.
- 🔎Blog Post: How to Teach Why Questions
- 🎯Why Question Goals
Play-Based Language Therapy
If you are planning early intervention or preschool therapy, play-based activities can be difficult to come up with on your own. Find resources to plan your next play-based treatment plan here.
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✅ Assessment/Baseline Resource
⭐ Teaching Resource
🔎 Increase Your Knowledge Resource
🎯Goal Recommendation
🧸Therapy Toy or Game Recommendation
Speech Therapy Play-Based Intervention
Prelinguistic Skills Information
- ✅Attention Span Baseline Assessment– Do you have students who have difficulty attending to tasks that impact their ability to make progress with speech and language goals? Use this FREE Measuring Attention Span by Age research-based resource to determine if a student’s attention span is within typical development.
- 🎯Goal for Increasing Attention Span (click on link and look for attending goal)
- ✅Joint Attention Baseline Assessment
- 🔎Blog Post: Enhancing Communication Skills Through Joint Attention
- 🎯Goal for Joint Attention
Preschool Speech Therapy Play-Based Lesson Plans
- ⭐Free Preschool Lesson Plan– Get this FREE farm themed lesson plan.
Favorite Toys and Games for Speech Therapy
Articulation Therapy
The right type of speech therapy articulation intervention can be difficult to choose because there is a wide variety of evidence-based options. Find all the things you need to know about articuclation therapy here.
- 🔎Multiple Oppositions Therapy– Have you ever worked with a student who substitutes W, D, or T for a variety of sounds and therefore is highly unintelligible? This is called phoneme collapse. Ever wonder what therapy approach to try with these students? Lynn Williams is a resercher who pioneered using multiple oppositions in therapy. This video, provided by Adventures in Speech Pathology, is helpful to watch. It’s an hour in length but gives some valuable information that provides you with evidence-based tools. There are also FREE resources included!
Alternative and Augmentative Communication
If you are a school based speech therapist who services many different students, AAC can seem like an area in which you don’t feel like the expert. Below you will find many resources to help you plan your next AAC intervention.
- ⭐Project Core-Are you looking for a communication model that is not only effective but also easy to implement for your students with significant communication needs? Project Core is an evidence-based model grounded in research done through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On the Project Core website, you can select a system that creates premade boards, find training videos, and get more helpful resources. And the best part is it’s all FREE!
- 🔎The website, PrAACticle AAC, has many strategies and tips for working with students who use low- and high-tech communication devices.
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