The Speech Connection

06/04/2025

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05/28/2025

Check out this all-in-one language activity worksheet packet for upper elementary and middle school students. It has a year's worth of activities targeting some of the most common language goals.

Are you needing an activity that targets upper elementary and middle school students working on language goals? This packet provides a YEAR worth of activities that target some of the most common language goals while keeping students engaged and having fun. This packet contains 36 weeks worth of l.....

03/31/2022

While aphasia is a newsworthy event in the lives of more than 2 million Americans, it’s not a condition that most people understand unless they had a friend or family member experience it. The difficult news of actor Bruce Willis’s aphasia diagnosis has made international headlines and o...

01/13/2022

U.S. News best jobs rankings 2022 ranks Speech-Language Pathology as #10 of the 100 best jobs and #3 in best health care jobs. Audiology is ranked at #22 in best health care jobs! https://on.asha.org/3FhnTLf

11/03/2021

Just your friendly reminder...😉

When things get tough around your school--sub jobs not filled, short food items, staff stressed out, tough behaviors popping up, parent concerns, fire alarm pulled at 3 pm (what?! yep, that's real life🚒)--we design the future.

That's right. Things may go wrong today, but this isn't a sprint. We are playing the long game with our students and we will make a difference.

So head home early today, put your feet up, enjoy your 'self care routine' (that might really just be a bad habit you like🍷) and wake up ready to do it again tomorrow. Because you matter! 💟

01/21/2021

It is pretty amazing that we have a president who has dealt with stuttering and the poet, Amanda Gorman who also has struggled with speech. Keep that in mind as you work with your students. You never know.

11/03/2020

New activity to enhance phonological awareness-rhyming while working on vocabulary, categories, and other language targets.

Word play sharpens a child's ability to attend to sounds and words in sentences, and rhyming introduces children to the concept that sounds in words may be manipulated independent of meaning. This packet includes activities to help children with rhyming judgement, rhyming identification, and rhyming...

09/26/2020

Thanks to Ingalls Tutoring for this list of useful resources.

08/04/2020

07/31/2020

Wise words from David Kilpatrick.....

"If the child doesn't have enough phonological skills to benefit from phonics, it's like asking kids to write on laminated paper. It's not going to stick."

These skills operate in steps. If a child is struggling at syllable level away from print they will have great difficulty with more complex skills at phonemic awareness level.

We have developed a phonological awareness. scope and sequence and are in the process of developing supporting skill builders and activities. What skills do you find your students have difficulty with? Tell us below....

04/04/2020

Category Task cards are now FREE for the next couple of months.

A great activity for working on language skills especially in the area of categorization. Included are 80 visual task cards: 40-same category and 40-one doesn't belongDesigned to target vocabulary identification, labeling, naming category, exclusion/inclusion, comparing/contrasting, and attributes.....