Parents and students: This page will be a good resource to assist you and your student with maintenance of skills taught in Speech Therapy, Vision Instruction, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy. We are adding supports and ideas as we collect them. Please visit individual campus pages for Structured Learning support. We are dedicated to offering activities to facilitate continuity between direct services and at home opportunities. We are also including ideas of support for students with Autism. Visual supports and Social Skills activities are included below. Click on the live link and it will take you to the website.

P.O. Box 810 * Hallsville, Texas 75650 * Ph/Fax: 903-668-5990

Speech Therapy Department

Amy Collins, Special Education Director

March 16, 2020

Dear Parents,

As Hallsville ISD’s Speech Therapy Department, we would like to encourage you to continue to enhance your students’ speech and language skills over our extended break. We have included resources to help you maintain your child’s skills. If your child had an IEP meeting scheduled during March 16- March 27, we will be diligently rescheduling those meetings when school is back in session. The safety of our staff and students due to the potential spread of COVID-19 is of utmost importance. Please do not hesitate to contact your child’s speech therapy provider with any questions.

Thank you,

HISD Speech Department

Lara Hood M.S. CCC-SLP Janessa Stewart M.S. CCC- SLP

lhood@hisd.com jstewart@hisd.com

Tara Rangel M.S. CCC-SLP Leslie Paramore- Assistant SLP

trangel@hisd.com lparamore@hisd.com

Christine Ruiz- Assistant SLP

cruiz@hisd.com

Articulation:

• Read with your child focusing on their target sounds

• Find items at home, outside, etc. that have their target sound

• Play board games/card games (have child name the picture, practice asking for each item with good speech sounds, etc)

• Make a list of words containing target sounds

• Engage your child in conversation about their favorite movie, book, hobbies, etc.

Language:

• Read with your child

  • Focus on vocabulary your child may not know

  • Retell the story

  • Have your child describe items in the story

  • Have your child identify nouns, adjectives, verbs from the story

  • Ask them questions about the story

• Play games targeting:

  • Following directions

  • Vocabulary

  • Turn taking

• Engage your child in conversation

  • Ask them questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

  • Practice turn taking in the conversation

• Pretend play (request items, name items, etc.)

• Go on walks and talk about nature

For our older students:

• Ask “How” questions (How do you brush your teeth?)

• Ask how objects are alike/different. (airplane-bird, sun- banana)

• Synonyms/Antonyms

• Engage in reading books

  • Have your student predict what will happen next

  • Have them describe the setting, characters, etc.

  • Answer questions related to story

• Play games

  • Practice turn taking, conversational skills, requesting items, etc.

Fluency: (Stuttering)

• Encourage your child to practice their stuttering strategies

• Read a book and have your child retell the story

• Have your child recall events from the day

AUTISM SUPPORTS:

Social Skills

https://do2learn.com/organizationtools/SocialSkillsToolbox/index.htm

Visual Supports

http://www.autismcircuit.net/tools

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Activities

Scholastic Learn at Home

SUPPORTS FOR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS:

Free Audio Books

Free eBooks

Learning Ally

BookShare

UDL Toolkit for Audiobooks

UDL Toolkit Text-to-Speech for Writing

Literacy Tools

Writing Tools

Math Tools

PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY