Wow, I still can't believe I've been on extern for 3 weeks now! It is such a different experience than working with clients at the university clinic. I LOVE IT! Everyone has been extremely nice and welcoming which has been great and the kids are adorable! Each day the kids make me laugh and I never know what they're going to do! In the beginning each day was such a whirlwind. I felt like every time I was starting to understand something I learned 3 new things! Now I'm getting in the flow of how everything works in the school and really getting to know the kids. It's been really great to see how a team approach works. The preschool has integrated classes, with OT's, PT's, Psychologists, and SLP's all working together with the classroom teacher and teacher aids. Each week the team meets about a different child and talks about how things are going and what else needs to be done or put in place for the child. I've realized how important it is to communicate with your team and really work together for each child. I can't wait to see how the rest of the semester goes!
-Erin
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Phonological Awareness Fun!
This week I have been going through my school work, notes, and materials from my three semesters at Syracuse. It is crazy to think of how much we did this year and that there's not much between now and graduation. As I looked back on everything, I started going through materials I made for one of my clinic assignments- Phonological Awareness camp. This was a prevention program that worked on preliteracy skills including alliteration, syllable manipulation, rhyming, and sound indentification. Each week, materials were created based around a theme. Before this assignment, I had been interested in phonological awareness and through working in this group, I have fallen in love with all things phonological! I believe phonological awareness is an important skill to work on and a great deal of success can be seen when targeting these skills in therapy. I have added jungled themed syllable segmentation worksheets that can be used to count the number of syllables of different animals. I have also added worksheets targeting alliteration. These can be quiet activities for a group and children can count syllables independantly or as a group. Clapping syllables is always a great way to physically count. Another way that I saw children have a lot of success was by using a tactile cue with his or her hand to feel the chin go up and down. Does anyone else have tricks they use when teaching syllable segmentation or any phonological awareness skills?
Happy Thursday!
~Rachel
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Entering the Externing World
Hey everyone,
I am the 3rd member of Speech on the Fly. I waited till this weekend to post because this has been my first week of my externship, but I am very excited to be joining the SLP-to be blogging community. I first started reading blogs during my student teaching placement in undergrad (Go Elmira!). My supervisor and I discovered many great resources online and implimented a lot of the materials during my semester in the elementary school.
My placement this semester is with adults with developmental disabilities. The individuals live in assisted group homes and we travel to see them for speech and language sessions as well as feeding/swallowing. So far we have focused a great deal on feeding and general safety of the individuals. One important aspect of working with the individuals on my caseload is remembering the diet consistency the individual should be on. A large focus of this first week was training new staff members in various group homes on the individuals they will be working with with a large focus on how to prepare the meals for each person and provide them with the correct adaptive equipment. I have gotten to see mother care spoons, high sided plates, built up handles on silverware, various types of cups and so much more already.
The resourse that I have added to our TpT store is a document with cards to fill out about each client. I have began making these as a "cheatsheet" to keep track of important information for each individual I see. There are many ways to do this and I have seen many great ideas online. My verison includes the individual's location since I am travelling to many group homes and it can get confusing for who lives where. Also, there is speech goals, diet consistency, adaptive equipment, and a comments section. I feel that this will help me use the correct terms and memorize this information quicker. Hopefully the cards will come in handy for others too!
I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!
~Rachel
I am the 3rd member of Speech on the Fly. I waited till this weekend to post because this has been my first week of my externship, but I am very excited to be joining the SLP-to be blogging community. I first started reading blogs during my student teaching placement in undergrad (Go Elmira!). My supervisor and I discovered many great resources online and implimented a lot of the materials during my semester in the elementary school.
My placement this semester is with adults with developmental disabilities. The individuals live in assisted group homes and we travel to see them for speech and language sessions as well as feeding/swallowing. So far we have focused a great deal on feeding and general safety of the individuals. One important aspect of working with the individuals on my caseload is remembering the diet consistency the individual should be on. A large focus of this first week was training new staff members in various group homes on the individuals they will be working with with a large focus on how to prepare the meals for each person and provide them with the correct adaptive equipment. I have gotten to see mother care spoons, high sided plates, built up handles on silverware, various types of cups and so much more already.
The resourse that I have added to our TpT store is a document with cards to fill out about each client. I have began making these as a "cheatsheet" to keep track of important information for each individual I see. There are many ways to do this and I have seen many great ideas online. My verison includes the individual's location since I am travelling to many group homes and it can get confusing for who lives where. Also, there is speech goals, diet consistency, adaptive equipment, and a comments section. I feel that this will help me use the correct terms and memorize this information quicker. Hopefully the cards will come in handy for others too!
I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!
~Rachel
Friday, August 30, 2013
Fun, Functional, FREE activity for a new school year!
Those are 3 "F" words you don't mind hearing in your speech room!
Hi everyone- my name is Holly Garrison and I am the second blogger from Speech on the Fly here to introduce myself and present you with more great materials. I have had experience working with preschoolers with autism and definitely enjoy the challenge (and rewards!) that these young ones bring. However, after going through classes in dysphagia, aphasia, and motor speech disorders then attending a conference about laryngectomy patients, I am beginning to feel torn about where my career will take me. I hope that my placements will help me decide!
As of this week, I am out of the university clinic and on to externship! I will be spending half of my week working at a center that specializes in multi-disciplinary evaluations including professionals such as SLPs, OTs, PTs, special education teachers, psychologists, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, and developmental pediatricians. Already this week I have witnessed children being newly diagnosed with autism, ADD/ADHD, and intellectual disability. It is such a unique placement and opportunity to get to work side-by-side with different professionals, learn from them and pull the pieces of the puzzle together to make a proper diagnosis. I'll be completing my first solo eval next week, so stay tuned to hear how it all went!
My second placement will be doing home visits through the Early Intervention program. I will be starting this placement later next week once schools get up and running here in New York!
Without further ado... here is a link to our TPT store for another FREE download: Red Light, Green Light! This is a material I created while working with a Pre-K articulation client a few semesters back. Originally I made it to be used during an auditory discrimination task and I used a toy car for her to "drive" back and forth between the two lights. I would say a word and if I said it the "right way" she was to drive it to the green light....if I said it the "wrong way," park it on over by the red light. She loved that it was interactive and was not simply saying "yes" or "no" which could clearly get boring for a little one. After creating the material, I realized I should laminate it and save it for the future- it is definitely a material that can easily be adapted for other cases. Some other examples for uses:
I'm sure you're all super creative and resourceful and can come up with countless uses for this material so laminate it right up and start putting it to use with your new kiddos!
We're just getting started- keep following us here at Speech on the Fly (dot blogspot dot com) and let us know what you think!
--Holly
Hi everyone- my name is Holly Garrison and I am the second blogger from Speech on the Fly here to introduce myself and present you with more great materials. I have had experience working with preschoolers with autism and definitely enjoy the challenge (and rewards!) that these young ones bring. However, after going through classes in dysphagia, aphasia, and motor speech disorders then attending a conference about laryngectomy patients, I am beginning to feel torn about where my career will take me. I hope that my placements will help me decide!
As of this week, I am out of the university clinic and on to externship! I will be spending half of my week working at a center that specializes in multi-disciplinary evaluations including professionals such as SLPs, OTs, PTs, special education teachers, psychologists, nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, and developmental pediatricians. Already this week I have witnessed children being newly diagnosed with autism, ADD/ADHD, and intellectual disability. It is such a unique placement and opportunity to get to work side-by-side with different professionals, learn from them and pull the pieces of the puzzle together to make a proper diagnosis. I'll be completing my first solo eval next week, so stay tuned to hear how it all went!
My second placement will be doing home visits through the Early Intervention program. I will be starting this placement later next week once schools get up and running here in New York!
Without further ado... here is a link to our TPT store for another FREE download: Red Light, Green Light! This is a material I created while working with a Pre-K articulation client a few semesters back. Originally I made it to be used during an auditory discrimination task and I used a toy car for her to "drive" back and forth between the two lights. I would say a word and if I said it the "right way" she was to drive it to the green light....if I said it the "wrong way," park it on over by the red light. She loved that it was interactive and was not simply saying "yes" or "no" which could clearly get boring for a little one. After creating the material, I realized I should laminate it and save it for the future- it is definitely a material that can easily be adapted for other cases. Some other examples for uses:
-->
Articulation/phonology: Use for auditory discrimination tasks… drive to green
if correct, red if incorrect. The child could do this for your productions or
you could do it during theirs.
--> Social skills: Read
aloud a situation and if the child thinks what the main character did was the
right thing to do, drive to green, or wrong, drive to red.
--> Language: Read
aloud a phrase/sentence and ask them to show you if you used the target skill
correctly. Could incorporate grammar, syntax, or other skills.
--> Fluency: Add some
texture to the road to represent "bumpy/smooth speech" if you're
working on that... The road provides a nice visual of a continuum so you can
move the car gradually from red to green as he performs a fluency shaping
technique and can also represent progress (e.g., "that wasn't quite green,
but you're almost there!")
--> Reinforcer/Self
monitoring: Use during any session to subtly recognize positive and negative
behaviors of the child. They're going to want that car on green (perhaps if a
prize is at stake!!)
I'm sure you're all super creative and resourceful and can come up with countless uses for this material so laminate it right up and start putting it to use with your new kiddos!
We're just getting started- keep following us here at Speech on the Fly (dot blogspot dot com) and let us know what you think!
--Holly
Monday, August 26, 2013
Welcome!
Hello Everyone!
I'm Erin, 1/3 of the contributors for Speech on the Fly and I'm so excited to be part of the blogging world! I thought I would start by sharing a bit about myself, I'm currently a 2nd year graduate student at Syracuse University and love it! I can't believe the first year is already over! I will be beginning my first externship where I will be at a preschool next week. I'm really excited and really nervous!
Throughout grad school I have become an avid blog reader and TPT browser. I've loved searching and learning what different SLP's are doing in therapy and what has worked for them. Hopefully this blog will share what has been working for me while I continue to learn how to be an SLP!
Since it is back to school time, I wanted to share a get-to-know-you question game that can be used with any new clients. For our first sessions in grad school it was always nice to play a quick get-to-know-you game before beginning therapy in order to build rapport. This free download contains two pages of basic get to know you questions as well as a blank page which allows for personalized questions OR for the child to make up their own question! This is a great way to break the ice for the first session! Head over to our TPT (link below) to get this free download!
I'm Erin, 1/3 of the contributors for Speech on the Fly and I'm so excited to be part of the blogging world! I thought I would start by sharing a bit about myself, I'm currently a 2nd year graduate student at Syracuse University and love it! I can't believe the first year is already over! I will be beginning my first externship where I will be at a preschool next week. I'm really excited and really nervous!
Throughout grad school I have become an avid blog reader and TPT browser. I've loved searching and learning what different SLP's are doing in therapy and what has worked for them. Hopefully this blog will share what has been working for me while I continue to learn how to be an SLP!
Since it is back to school time, I wanted to share a get-to-know-you question game that can be used with any new clients. For our first sessions in grad school it was always nice to play a quick get-to-know-you game before beginning therapy in order to build rapport. This free download contains two pages of basic get to know you questions as well as a blank page which allows for personalized questions OR for the child to make up their own question! This is a great way to break the ice for the first session! Head over to our TPT (link below) to get this free download!
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