No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas
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Why is group speech‑language therapy essential for large caseloads?
When you're a speech language pathologist with a caseload of 70 or more kids, group therapy is a necessary evil. Sometimes it feels like group speech language therapy only happens because we don't have enough time to see each child individually. But there are actually a lot of really great benefits to group therapy as well. Our students are much more likely to work on those hard skills when they see other students working on hard things as well. And hearing those errors in other people's speech can sometimes improve their awareness of their own speech. Plus, we get a ton of practice working on those interpersonal skills that everybody needs to work on. But running a speech language group can also be very daunting.
I'm speech language pathologist Carrie Clark, and on today's episode of the Speech and Language Kids podcast, I'm gonna show you some quick and easy ways to run your. or speech language therapy groups with no prep time at all. So welcome to the podcast. If you are live with me inside the hub, welcome to you as well. Hey Karen. We are gonna get right into some really awesome group strategies. I'm gonna talk about a couple of different ways that I like to run my groups, as well as an alternative to groups if you're still feeling stressed out over your group therapy sessions. But I wanted to make sure that you knew that we have a very fun challenge that we are doing next month, which is why we are talking about these group sessions now.
So during the month of December 2024, if you're listening to this in the future, we are going to do a no prep challenge because I know that all of you have no time around the holidays anyway. So being able to spend an entire month just doing the therapy and not having to do any of the planning, the prepping, all of that extra stuff that goes with it, that is the goal of our no prep December challenge. So today we're going to be tackling groups, but we have already tackled data collection and getting yourself set up with speech holders so that you can do a full month of therapy without any planning or prep. So if you missed any of that, either go back on the podcast to the previous episodes or go ahead and go into the hub at hub.speechandlanguagekids.com.
You'll find our webinar, you'll find our videos, you'll find all of the printouts that you can use to make this happen.
What are the proven benefits of running therapy in a group setting?
So that is what we are talking about today. If you are listening to this podcast on the audio version, you can find the show notes at speechandlanguage kids.com slash group dash therapy. That's where you're going to find all of these notes of everything I'm going to talk about today, along with all the links to download the actual stuff that goes with it. So that's where you'll find that. Okay, so you all know me, you know I love a good story. So I'm gonna start this episode by talking about Cub Scouts. So my own kids have been in Cub Scouts for several years now, and my youngest, I was going with him to the meetings, and um for any of you who know my my kids, they're kind of a hot mess, let's be honest.
So are we all, I guess. But it was a lot to keep him managed at our meetings. And I was kinda hands-on trying to just get him through those those activities because I knew he wanted to do the big fun stuff, but you gotta do the work too to get there. And so it was always a struggle. And uh I guess about a year ago, The leader of his particular den, that's what they call their little groups and Cub Scouts. She had to move away unexpectedly, and we were left without leadership for his den. Really struggled with the decision on whether or not I should step up because I wasn't sure. If I could manage him and lead a group at the same time. And I I talked to my husband a lot about it and we we discussed it and I finally decided to go for it.
And I was so nervous that I wasn't gonna be able to manage this group. Um now we had another parent who stepped up too, and so we ended up being able to split the group. So we each had five kids instead of a full ten second graders, which is way better.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why is group speech‑language therapy essential for large caseloads?
0:00–2:21
2
What are the proven benefits of running therapy in a group setting?
2:21–8:44
3
How can I set up a no‑prep group therapy system in just a few minutes?
8:44–14:16
4
What is the step‑by‑step process for running a no‑prep group session?
14:16–18:22
5
How does the stations approach work and what stations can I use?
18:22–22:39
6
What is the 5‑minute therapy approach and when should I use it?
22:39–25:14
7
How do I adjust IEP minutes for the 5‑minute sessions?
25:14–26:06