No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy

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Carrie Clark 0:00

It's no prep December, and that means I am challenging you not to prep or plan any therapy activities this month at all. But what do we do for our language therapy? How do we do this for younger children or teenagers or elementary age students? Is it possible to go no prep for language therapy? Well, I am speech language pathologist, Keri Clark. And in today's episode of the Speech and Language Kids podcast, I'm going to answer all of those questions with three easy ways to do no prep therapy for language skills. So that is what we're doing today. Now, if you've missed it, we are doing no prep December. And it is currently December, 2024. If you are listening to this in the future. Um, but this is the challenge I'm issuing this month because it's the end of the year and everyone's stressed out anyway, and we have the holidays coming up.

Carrie Clark 0:57

So I'm challenging you to go a whole month of full, no prep therapy. Hey, Melissa. Welcome. I am actually live right now inside the hub. And so I have some viewers who are going to pop in and watch as I record this podcast. And if you would like to participate and be a part of our future podcast recordings, you can go over to hub.speechandlanguagekids.com, grab yourself a free membership, and you can pop over and join us for the podcast recordings. Hey, Melissa, you can pop over to the chat and say hello if you'd like. Okay, so we're doing No Prep December and I wanted to make sure that I gave you guys lots of ideas for what you can do to do your therapy in a no prep way. And I think language therapy is one of those that I get the questions on the most.

Carrie Clark 1:43

So I wanted to do a full podcast episode today on how do we do no prep language therapy. So I'm going to give you several ideas to get you started today. And then this coming Friday from when I'm recording, so December 6th, we're actually going to be doing a webinar with even more No Prep Therapy ideas. So if you are listening to this podcast afterwards, you can go over to hub.speechandlanguagekids.com. There will be two webinar recordings for you. One was how to do the no prep challenge, and then the other is how to do the actual therapy. What does the therapy look like? And so if you are doing your no prep challenge in a different month than what we're doing in the future, you can pop back over and watch those and get all of the information.

Carrie Clark 2:33

Okay, let's see. So we're gonna go ahead and talk about this, but I did wanna tell you real quick that there is a shortcut. So I'm gonna give you some really good language therapy ideas right now, but if you are just saying, I need something right this moment, I just need to grab something, our shortcut then would be the Core Language Program, which is our 16-week oral language intervention. It is 16 weeks of pre-made language lessons Over the course of 16 weeks, they will hit every oral language skill for one grade level. So that is available if you want to check that out over at speechandlanguagekids.com slash core. But we're going to jump in and actually give you some language ideas right now too.

Carrie Clark 3:14

All right, hey, welcome everybody who's in here with me in the hub. Hey, Sarah, hey, Henderson, Renee, Sophie, Ann, and Melissa, welcome. You guys can pop over into the chat. If you have any questions, leave those in here in the chat as we're going along, and I'll be happy to answer those right here on the podcast. Hey, Dana, welcome. Okay, so you know I like a story, and today's story is going to be about the least expected place that I've ever done therapy. Okay. So I do therapy in a lot of weird places and part of that is this whole mindset I have around just following the child. Following the child's lead and letting them show me what they need that day. So the least expected place that I ever did speech therapy was smushed between two walls of lockers.

Carrie Clark 4:01

There was... tiny little gap in between these two bays of lockers and that is where we did our therapy so this little guy he was I think he was second grade maybe third and he came out of his room and just just a hot he came out hot he was not having it that day did not want to see me did not want to hang out with me did not want to talk with me definitely did not want to do any speech therapy work so I'm sure you've all had a

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No-Prep Ideas for Language TherapyIt’s No-Prep December and that means that I’m challenging you NOT to prep any therapy activities for the whole month. But how do we do that for language therapy? How do we do it for younger children? Or teenagers? Or elementary-aged students? Is it possible to go no-prep for language therapy?? Well, I’m speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I’m going to answer all of these questions with three easy ways to do no-prep therapy for language skills. Listen to the Podcast Here You can listen to the full podcast episode below: No-Prep Language Therapy Step 1: Choose a Skill When starting off with no-prep language therapy, the first thing to do is to choose a skill to target. You can choose one skill to dive deep on or a few that you’ll work on as they come up. You’ll hold in your mind the level of the skill you’ll be working at (scaffolding) or what cues you’ll use. No-Prep Language Therapy Step 2: Choose a Type of Activity There are three levels of no-prep therapy to choose from. The level you choose will depend on the age and developmental level of the child along with how things seem to be going that day. Here are the levels: Through Play: Model the language skill during play. Provide communication temptations for the child to use the skill. Use expansions and recasting to correct the child’s use of the skill. Through Drill & Practice: Explicitly teach the skill and then practice it in isolation. Through Natural Interactions: Talk about the skill explicitly but then wait for it to come up naturally through conversation, reading, writing, homework, playing games, etc. Keep in mind that you may find yourself moving from one level to another throughout the session, based on how things are going. But you should at least have an idea of where you’ll start. No-Prep Language Therapy Step 3: Follow the Child’s Lead Now comes the part where you have to learn to let go. It may feel uncomfortable at first but I promise that when you allow the child to lead the activity, you’ll get better buy-in and they’ll make faster progress. Plus, you’ll be spending less time up front on planning and prepping elaborate activities. Let the child choose the toys, games, or activities. Have them bring in something they are reading or an assignment they’re working on. Ask them if they’d like to go for a walk. Ask them if there is anything they’d like to talk about. Ask them about their interests. Invest in them as a human first, then work the communication skills into it. No-Prep Language Therapy Example! Let’s go over a few examples to help you understand what we mean: Example: Pronouns Play: play with dolls, action figures, puppets, etc. Model use of the pronouns “she is sliding, weeeee”. Provide communication temptations: “what is Molly doing?” Recast incorrect productions: “SHE is sliding! Yes!” Drill & Practice: Look at pictures on the iPad of children doing different things. Use sentences to describe what they are doing. Emphasis on correct pronoun use. Natural Interactions: Have the student tell you about their day, use a signal to indicate when a pronoun needs to be corrected. Or edit and revise a writing assignment for pronoun use. Or read a book together and point out pronouns. Retell that section of the story with correct pronoun use. A Pre-Made Language Curriculum (that’s also no-prep!) Our Core Language Program is a 16-week oral language curriculum with 16 no-prep lessons. Over the course of 16 weeks, our pre-made curriculum will teach… Vocabulary Syntax/Grammar Following Directions Asking and Answering Questions Retelling and Forming Narratives Stating Opinions Retelling or Providing Information Click Here to Learn More about our Core Language Program The post No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy appeared first on Speech And Language Kids.

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