I00% dog person here, folks. National Dog Day is August 26th, and I've got your speech therapy sessions more than covered for a dog theme! Full disclosure– I probably won't be your go-to for National Cat Day ideas (is that a thing?), but check out these doggone good finds from around the web to engage your students with this great theme at the end of August... or any time! Why use dog-themed activities in speech therapy? A dog-themed speech therapy unit is a fun, engaging wa

Summer speech therapy means feeling the pull between wanting to keep sessions meaningful and fun, yet not wanting to spend hours planning a Pinterest-perfect thematic unit. Just because it's summer doesn't give speech-language pathologists endless time to create themed lesson plans, so we need activities that catch attention and facilitate engagement without a lot of extra effort. That’s where an ice cream theme comes in. It’s simple, fun, and easy to adapt for both younger s

For school-based speech-language pathologists, summers off are sacred. But, if there is one thing that might make SLPs wish they could provide summer sessions, it's the fun themes. ALL the heart eyes for high-interest summer themes like ice cream, ocean animals, and the 4th of July! With Independence Day approaching, it's the perfect time to utilize some fun Fourth of July activities with your virtual or in-person summer school students. Check out these speech and language ac

Earth Day is one of my favorite spring themes for speech therapy... especially since you can actually use it year-round. Earth Day activities can be adapted to so many different levels, from preschool through high school. Plus, Earth Day can be celebrated by all students throughout the world! For younger students, speech therapy activities around the April 22 holiday focus on simpler concepts such as planting trees and recycling. When working with older students, SLPs may foc

The farm might be one of the most quintessential speech therapy themes of all time. When I think back to my first sessions as an undergrad in the campus clinic, I picture myself dragging that big plastic barn (and the hundred farm animals that came with it) into my tiny therapy room for preschool language sessions. I don’t need to tell you that a toy farm set is a fantastic way to elicit speech and language skills. But today, I want to show you tons of no-prep ways to use the