Free Summer Speech Therapy Activities (No Print Ideas)

Ahhh. After what I'm pretty sure was a 50-month school year, sweet summertime is (or is nearly) here!  If you've already hung up your speech therapy cards, congratulations on finishing another undoubtedly crazy school year!

For those speech-language pathologists who are providing speech therapy over the summer, don't sweat it! You can maximize your time for fun in the sun by utilizing download-and-go activities to target speech and language skills that won't require printing or even prep time.

No need to give up your poolside spot to plan a single speech therapy session this summer. Instead, lean on so many SLPs who did the job for you by creating these perfectly summer-themed activities. 💪 Fire up the grill and enjoy the season with these FREE, no-prep, digital activities that will have you walking on sunshine all summer.

Free Summer Lesson Plans for Speech Therapy

Let's start with some free therapy plans for your summer sessions, shall we? Whether you're working in an extended school year program or seeing private clients, get creative ideas for targeting articulation and language goals for various summer themes.

This clickable lesson planning spreadsheet saves you time and adds some done-for-you organization to your work life this summer. It opens in Google Sheets and is loaded with links to speech therapy activities for younger and older students, including...

• games and website activities

• books and videos

• reading passages and articles

• ...and more!

Get a list of fun themes to use in the summer, such as hot weather, summer foods like ice cream and barbeque, outdoor activities like swimming and camping, and summer holidays.

Free Summer-Themed Digital Activities for Speech Therapy

Since summer is a time to be outside in the backyard, at the ballpark, or by the water, these free speech therapy resources will free up your time to do just that! The variety of digital options will also keep things exciting for your summer students or clients.

Google Drive™ Activities

For my fellow Google Slides-loving teletherapy SLPs, there are a couple of free goodies for you! Add these activities to your summer therapy toolbox, too!

• In this free digital game by Build Words SLP, students ask each other questions to determine which beachgoer the other player chose.

Digital PDFs

Nothing like a quick PDF to pull up on your device in your summer speech therapy sessions. With no internet required, you could even use this one outside in the sun!

• Use the summer picture by Mighty Voice Speech Language and Listening to work on tons of speech and language goal areas with an interesting and vocabulary-packed scene.

• This Camping-Themed One-Page Picture is available for my email subscribers. It's perfect for mixed groups, but you can also use it to target just articulation or language.

Boom™ Card Decks

Boom Cards are the ultimate digital speech therapy activity all year, and the summer months are no different! There are tons of free boom decks to target different skill areas throughout your summer therapy sessions.

• Target answering wh- questions related to beach activities with this deck by Stacy Crouse.

• This Silly Scene Creator by Speechy Things can be used to target tons of language concepts.

• Speech therapists can use this versatile, open-ended Boom deck by Gemma June SLP to work on 3-syllable words.

• This ice-cream themed Boom Card activity by the SPOT Shop is the perfect opportunity to work on following directions and vocabulary.

• This deck by Teacher Camille uses a beach theme to address auditory sequential memory.

• This Boom deck by Teacher Camille includes a lake swimming scene and offers a great opportunity to elicit expressive language.

• Use this summer story retell and sequencing Boom deck by Language Speech and Literacy to work on sentence structure, answering questions, sequencing, and retelling a story.

• In this open-ended beach-themed deck by SLP Britt, students search for a hidden picture.

• Students can work on critical thinking skills in this deck by Thumb Bunny Speech by making inferences when given clues about chalk drawings.

• This deck by Speak and Teach PH is a great activity to work on memory and following directions while making smoothies.

• In this simple deck by GoldieTalks Speech, students identify something of a named color to put on a submarine.

• Use this "feed the shark" deck by GoldieTalks Speech to target rhyming words.

• These three open-ended board games by PlayLearnTalk can be used as reinforcement in speech therapy to target any goal.

• Play tic-tac-toe with summer vocabulary using this deck by PlayLearnTalk.

• In this Boom Card deck by Little Speech Shop, target initial /g/ by looking under blocks to find summer vocabulary items.

Whether you're working through the summer or just sprinkling in a few speech therapy sessions here and there, you deserve to make things easy on yourself. Let these free, no-prep, summer-themed activities do the heavy lifting so you can spend more time soaking up the sunshine and less time planning. You've earned it!

Don't forget to make an easy plan for summer break speech therapy homework!

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