Peach Speech Therapy

Sunday drive in the country is even more fun with a Scavenger Hunt!! helps make this fun for emergent readers with wonderful visuals 🌻🚗🐴🌻 The kids came up with what they wanted to find and the point value! Check out our stories for other great scavenger hunts for the upcoming week 👀 Scavenger Hunts are wonderful for building language! @ Milton, Georgia

We are open! We feel super lucky we still get to see our students this week 🌈🍀 and they love teletherapy 💚🖥

Spill the beans = 😂😂😂
We’re working on food this week! The language concepts are really endless...
🍪 sizes
🥦 categorizing
🍭colors
🌮 sounds
🎂taste
We could go on and on, but isn’t it about time for lunch? 😋 Check out our stories for more fun ways to work on speech and language at home with food!

Stalking 👀 that dollar spot 🎯 paid off today!! We love using mini erasers in our speech room and they travel well too! Do you use mini erasers in speech? 🌮🍦 🦄 🦙 🍕 🍎 ✏️ 🌎 Check our stories for other great dollar spot finds!

Two more days of school here in Georgia!! 🎉🎉🎉
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It’s that time of year when we get asked a lot by parents about fun summer games to play at home that also promote communication and language skills ♟🎯🏆
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🎲Here are some of our favorites!
🎲If you are local head over to our favorite toy store to grab some games for summer fun!!
🎲 Most of these we use frequently in speech-language therapy
🎲A couple are on our personal wish list after seeing them in action
🎲 SLPs, what are your favorite games to recommend for home practice?

Setting up sensory play to maximize communication opportunities:
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We love a perfectly displayed sensory bin as much as anyone 😍 But that isn’t always the best option for every child...every time. Check out how we mixed things up and encouraged more communication.
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For a child who needs to work on requesting, making choices or problem solving set up your sensory play together! We left everything packaged for this activity. The child got to chose which he wanted to play with and request help opening the tubes. Since the contents spilled out as we opened them together he worked to describe what was in each container as they were opened. Some call it sabotage...we prefer “communication temptation”
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Let’s look at all of the communication that occurred because this activity wasn’t set up:
🧩 It’s stuck
🧩Can you open this?
🧩 What is in there?
🧩 Is that a house?
🧩 It won’t open
🧩 I want the green one first
🧩Can you help?
🧩Which one do you want first (second, third)
🧩First we open the play dough then we open the tools
Check out our stories for articles on how to use this important strategy at home and in therapy! Later this week we’ll show our favorite container to use for communication temptation.

Earn your Squigz!!
🦠We love using these in place of dot markers and magnetic chips with almost any articulation or language activity.
🦠The kids love earning their Squigz then getting to build and play with them afterwards.
🦠What is your favorite way to use Squigz?
Check our stories for the a peek at this fun toy!

We love Play Foam yes we do! We love Play Foam...how about you? 🎉🎉🎉
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This is one sensory bin filler we can all agree on!
It’s tons of fun...can be molded into any shape...doesn’t dry out...and is easy to clean up. I mean what more can travel therapist ask for? 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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🌿This sensory bin goes along with our “Bear Wants More” spring theme
🌿Adding cut up straws allows it to also hold story cards, articulation cards, question cards...you name it
🌿We always bring along a bag of cookie cutters for Play Foam
Do you use Play Foam?

STORY PROPS! We love using story props in the speech room. They help build vocabulary, concepts, comprehension and reasoning skills. A few things to know about story props:
🐢 You can find them anywhere (including during a playroom clean out)
🐢 If you don’t have a character make one! See that beaver? It’s printed with a binder clip attached
🐢 Introduce story elements as you read for younger kids vs. all at once. What books do you like using story props with?

Spring showers ☔️🌸 We can’t get enough of these tiny droppers this week so we paired them with a sensory bin for language building fun. “It’s raining on the little green frog.” 🐸 “It’s raining on the big yellow chick.” 🐥 Expressive and receptive language opportunities are endless with this activity! Check out my stories for more details on this invitation to play 🐣🐌🐸

It’s Masters weekend in Georgia! This kids have clearly caught on and been asking to play ⛳️ so why not put those golf tees to good use next week in speech. This one is easy to set up and so much fun to play!
Supplies needed: I-Spy printable, toy hammer, styrofoam, golf tees
Take turns giving the clues to make this an expressive and receptive language activity. “I Spy something with 8 legs that builds a web.”
“I Spy something that makes honey and stings.”
Check my stories to see this activity in action!

Who are you cheering for? @ Augusta, Georgia

Growing sensory bin alert! I keep my green March sensory bin going for two months. This is the first rotation. The gold coins have been replaced with bugs for a bug hunt this week. 🐞🐛🦋🐝🐜 This is a great sensory bin for comparing and contrasting...colors, shapes, sizes, functions, etc...happy hunting! 🐛🦋🐞🐜 Oh and you can bet we’ll be singing “Going on a Bug Hunt” all week...check my stories for my favorite version 🎶

What a great idea from !! We have been having so much fun with this favorite game in speech this week. I love it when an old game seems new again with just a few changes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Having fun with this cold Georgia wether this week...now if we would only get some snow!