Colors of School

I created a book called The Colors of School (see link below) to use with my students with severe disabilities. This book works on students identifying and learning school nouns (glue stick, pencil, marker, crayon, etc) and also identifying the objects colors. Once I read the book with the students I then have the students sort the school nouns by color (see picture below).

Next week, I plan on reviewing the book with the students and have them identify items out of a field of 2 or 3 depending on their individual needs.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-of-School-Adaptive-Book-870888

Building Rappot with Students

One of the most important factors for having your students succeed in speech-language therapy is  building rapport with them. One of the first activities that I will be doing with all of my students is activities that help build rapport. I have developed an activity that I will be using with my middle school students. Students and myself will take turns rolling our conversation dice and will take turns answering the question that the dice lands on. These questions are basic questions that cover favorite things (season, color, sport, etc). Not only will we get to know more about one another I will also be able to collect baseline data on my student's expressive and receptive language skills. Below is a link for this free activity! Enjoy!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Conversation-Starters-Getting-to-know-each-other-855786

Another year ahead......

As another school year begins so does all the paperwork! This year I have two new schools within the same school district (a suburb outside of Chicago, IL). I will be working at a middle school with the self-contained autism program and at the district's self-contained school working with students with severe disabilities from ages three to nine. Both of these settings are new to me but I am ready for the challenge. Hope you have a great school year!

Summer

Today is our last day before summer break!! Enjoy your summer and see you back here in August!! :)

Adjective Scavenger Hunt

Since the articulation scavenger hunt was such a hit with my students I created one to use with my students that have language goals. Similar to the articulation scavenger hunt students went around the outside of the school finding objects that could be described by the adjective. When they completed the worksheet the students put the adjectives into a sentence. Below is a link for the adjective and articulation scavenger hunt for free on TPT! Enjoy!


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ArticulationAdjective-Scavenger-Hunt-712724

Articulation Scavenger Hunt

To help with carryover for articulation over the summer I have created an articulation scavenger hunt. Students went around the outside of the school and wrote down words that have the sound that they are working on. After the words were collected we practiced putting the words into sentences. At the end of the session we talked about why we did this activity and the importance of practicing your articulation everywhere just not in speech-therapy.

Summer Categories

On Friday we finished the At The Beach book (see post from 5/29/13) and began discuss what we wear in the summer and what we do not wear with the self-contained autism room. I brought in winter (scarf, hat, boots) and summer (sandals, shorts, t-shirt) clothing to help the students determine which clothing to wear in the summer and which clothing to wear in the winter. After, I used the worksheet above to progress monitor the student's understanding of winter and summer clothing. See below for link on TPT for this worksheet and more!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Summer-Speech-Language-Therapy-Materials-AutismLanguage-Delays-653699










http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Summer-Speech-Language-Therapy-Materials-AutismLanguage-Delays-653699