Wow!  I can't believe another year has almost passed!  This has been an amazing year for me.  Thank you to everyone who helped me celebrate my one-year blogiversary last week! One thing I have done this year, is to re-implement homework with my students.  I had taken a year off of sending home folders, and I really regret doing that.  I have reinstated homework with my students, and I (and their parents) couldn't be happier!  I realize now that the home-school link is so important for carryover and generalization of all speech and language skills.  I guess I always knew that, but after taking the year off of sending homework, I realized how uninformed my students families were about what was going on in the speech room.  Now, I have a direct link home every week with my homework folders.  I guess one reason I stopped doing homework folders last year was the amount of work I perceived to be involved with them.  I was constantly printing off new pictures and worksheets for...

I can't believe that it has been one year since I started my little speech blog!  I have learned so much over the past year.  Through blogging, I have become more creative and thoughtful with working with my students.  It really has renewed my enthusiasm for therapy!  I have also learned so much more about technology and creating new activities than I ever thought possible.   I have met so many awesome SLP's this year, and their ideas, energy, and wisdom amaze me!  All in all, this year has been AMAZING! As a thank you to everyone who has supported me over this last year, I decided to do a little celebration.  I am giving away a $25 TpT gift certificate and the winner's choice of 5 items from my store.  You can enter to win this giveaway in the rafflecopter below.  You can check out my store on TpT HERE to see what you could win! Again, thank you to everyone who has followed this blog, Speech Universe on Facebook, TpT, and Pinterest -never did quite get around to t...

Thanks to Jenna over at Speech Room News for hosting another month of her Love it & List it feature!  This month is dedicated to articulation apps. I love, love, love articulation apps.  They are so versatile.  I often use them in groups, or with my articulation RTI students that I see very quickly a few times a week.  Here are two of my absolute favorites that I definitely use every week: 1.  Articulation Station by Little Bee Speech.  The version I linked to is the free version so you could check it out.  You are able to buy each sound individually for about $2.99 each (range up to $5.99).  This is great to recommend to parents who want an app to work on at home.  They can simply purchase one or two sounds to use as homework (with your guidance of course).  You can also purchase the Pro version for $49.99.  This is expensive, but well worth the price. I love that with this app you can target specific phonemes in your choice of position in words, phrases, sentence...

Last year, I made some auditory memory activities for the circus and the farm .  My students loved using those cards, and some were asking me for some zoo cards.  Ask and you shall receive!  I have created Auditory Zoo: Auditory Memory Activities for Sentences, Riddles, and Stories .     There are four different activities included in this packet:   Auditory Memory for Sentences       Zoo Riddles   Auditory Memory for Zoo Stories      Zoo Story Retelling     Here are some pictures of two of the activities in use in my speech room.  The first one is the sentence repetition game.     This second one is my story comprehension cards.  They are 2 or three sentence short stories with comprehension questions.  I printed them front to back so that I could just cut them out.  I set the sheets up so that when you print back to back, the story will print on the back of the picture that matches.     These act...

I recently had the chance to review a great new app from Hamiguchi Apps.  Their apps are always well thought out, so I was excited to try their newest addition, Fun With Verbs and Sentences .  I was hoping it would be a bit of an extension from their First Phrases app, and I was not disappointed. The first thing you do is enter your player or players.  You can add members into groups for future use too.  Next, you click the gear in the top right corner to adjust the settings of the game.  The first button is for Activities.  You can select two different activities: Build a Sentence + Animation (select parts) or Watch & Say (recording page only). The next setting is Sentence Type.  You can select from four different types: Verb (only), Subject + Verb, Subject + Verb + Object, and Subject + Verb + Prepositional Phrase.  You can also select the subjects.  you can have only pronouns such as he/she, or you can select to use nouns such as the boy/the girl/ the bear. ...