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Favorite Board Games for Speech and Language Therapy
Kristen Cummings of the wonderful Simply Speech Blog, is hosting a linky party about board games for speech and language therapy. Click on the picture below to be sent to the linky party. For those of you who are new to blogging, this is a great way to learn about...
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Christmas Vocabulary Fun
This is one of my groups from this morning. I got these Christmas word cards on Teachers Pay Teachers from Mrs. W for FREE! I laminated them in long strips and laid them out on the table . The kids took turns tossing red or green poker chips and naming the word...
Using iPad Drawing Apps with Therapy Materials
It's all about novelty. Kids love to be excited by something new. So I like to have a lot of different choices in my therapy bag of tricks. Here is a great way to use some of your TeachersPayTeachers materials in conjunction with your iPad. Let me show you how I...
Moving Day
Moving my speech room has set off a domino effect. Our old school is bursting at the seams and we had to add a new 5th grade teacher to our team. A large classroom was needed and mine fit the bill. I had to move. It's so easy to be inflexible and not want to...
Reading and Language Impairment
I was talking to my sister Cati, another book nerd like me, about The Book Whisperer. We were brainstorming ideas of what I could do to get my students excited about reading. Her 11 year old son Jack (yep, another reader) was listening to our conversation and told us...
The Girl Who Was Locked in the Library
I have been reading Donalyn Miller’s The Book Whisperer and I’m hanging on every word. Yes, I am a book nerd. I have always been an avid reader. I love everything about books: the colorful covers, the back flap, the different fonts and the feel of the edge of a page...
Dragons Love Tacos Activity Pack and Book Companion
This packet contains games and activities to support the book Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. The book is instantly engaging using humor and fun illustrations. I have been trying this out for the last two weeks with great success. The kids love the story and are...
Using puppets to bring a story to life for students with special needs and low attention skills
I am always on the lookout for great picture books that have a fun message, colorful illustrations , a little humor, and appeal to a large age range. Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin, is a book that delivers. It appeals to my K through 4 students and my special needs...
I love October!
I am on fall break this week and enjoying every minute of it! This is a great time to recharge. And here in Phoenix, October is the month when our HOT months are over! It's planting time and outdoor life time. Brad and I took a little road trip to northern Arizona and...
Every Once in Awhile…Unplug
I love technology and social media: catching up with friends on facebook, instagram photos, Pinterest, Teachers Pay Teachers, and shopping online! I love pizza too-doesn’t mean I can eat it every day without getting some unwanted results! Everything in moderation, my...
Explaining Speech Language Evaluations in Parent Friendly Terms
So you’ve completed your testing and written your report. Now it’s time to present the results to the student’s parents. This is delicate work; use empathy and try to put yourself in the parents’ place. Know your “audience”. This is not a time to dazzle them with your...
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Hey there I’m Anne Page. I help heart centered SLPs and educators put the fun in functional communication. 
Hello
Hey there I’m Anne Page. I help heart centered SLPs and educators put the fun in functional communication.