When providing services to so many children for speech therapy in the schools, you are guaranteed to come in contact with multiple personalities. You will experience those that easily separate, ones that dread coming into the speech therapy (no matter how fun you make it) and probably a few children who would prefer to stay on your caseload forever. It is super important to try and start the school year off on the best foot possible with your little (and big) ones! Students usually love to tell their stories and talk about themselves, so why not play into that! Here are a few engaging ways to build rapport with your students in speech.
All About Me Uno
All About Me Uno (FREEBIE!) is a great way to get to know students (and the SLP) during the first week of speech. As students turn over a card they answer a question relating to the color chosen. This is a wonderful way to practice underlying rules such as turn-taking and for the students to engage with each other.
Fill Your Backpack – Shopping Ad Companion
Fill Your Backpack – Shopping Ad Companion is a low-prep resource to engage your students while incorporating functional materials they’ll see in the future! You can print and use sample shopping ads included to target a variety of speech and language skills in the following activities: identifying objects from description, category and function sort, supply description, supply match, sound search and compare/contrast.
Back-to-School Speech Craft
Looking for and engaging and interactive craft for your speech therapy sessions? Your students will love making these back-to-school crafts as they practice a wide range of articulation and language goals. Each craft has easy to follow, visual directions. With 50 pages, these engaging crafts are ideal for mixed groups! Print and go speech therapy fun for articulation and language goals. These pages are also perfect for collecting baseline data at the beginning of the year.
All About Me Pennant
All About Me Pennant gives students a chance to show off their creativity and coloring skills by drawing or writing about all of their “favorite things.” The second page of the pennant has students write 3 speech goals and their hope for their year in speech. This activity is fabulous for students of all levels and provides ways for each student to feel successful through completing the activity with some level of independence.
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All of these activities are not only fun and interactive but also a really great way for SLPs to informally observe your students’ speech, language, and fluency skills after an extended break! Hopefully these engaging ways to build rapport with your students in speech helps set you up for a great school year!
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