SPEECH THERAPY

Dear Parents,

As Spring Hill ISD’s Speech Therapy Department, we would like to encourage you to continue to enhance your students’ speech and language skills at home while we work on goals and objectives at the school. We have included resources on this page to help you maintain and carryover skills. Please do not hesitate to contact your child’s speech therapy provider with any questions.

Thank you,

SHISD Speech Department

Holly Witt

Speech Therapist

hwitt@shisd.net

(903) 323-7848

Kelsey Narramore

Speech Therapist

Spring Hill Intermediate/High School

(903) 323-7701

Anna Leah Fisher

Speech Therapist Assistant

afisher@shisd.net

(903) 323-7848

Amber Jenkins

Speech Therapist Assistant

Spring Hill Intermediate/High School

(903) 323-7101

SPEECH THERAPY AT HOME

Ideas / activities for enhancing your child's speech and language skills at home

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 requesting items 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 recall 3-4 facts from the story

  • Ask them "wh" questions about the story

• Play games

  • Following directions

  • Vocabulary

  • Turn taking

• Engage your child in conversation

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

  • Practice turn taking in the conversation

  • Maintaining a topic

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

• Go on walks and describe things you see

For our older students:

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

• Talk about 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 using their speech strategies

• Read a book and have your child retell the story with smooth speech

• Have your child recall events from the day with smooth speech

APPS for SPEECH & LANGUAGE

free apps - upgrades & subscriptions available for small fees

Word Vault Essential

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/word-vault-essential/id947222381

• Articulation

• Phonological

• Language

• pragmatics

Minimal Pairs / Final Consonants

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minimal-pairs-final-consonants/id1450032349

• Phonological

28 Categories For Kids

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/28-categories-for-kids/id1478999993

• Sorting

• Find it

• Which doesn’t belong?

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitsboard-flashcards-games/id516842210

• Vocabulary

• Categories

• spelling

• Emotions

Sentence Maker: Educational Learning Game for Kids

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sentence-maker/id499150658

• Formulating sentences

Heads Up!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/heads-up/id623592465

• Describing

• Social skills

Mad Libs

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mad-libs/id326885152

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adjectives

• Vocabulary

VocabularySpellingCity

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vocabularyspellingcity/id538407602

• Vocabulary

• Spelling

• Phonics

• Sentence writing

Super Duper Publications

Let’s Name Things Fun Deck

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lets-name-things-fun-deck/id454450994

Using I and Me Fun Deck

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/using-i-and-me-fun-deck/id493067783

Webber Photo Artic Castle

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webber-photo-artic-castle-free/id555982949

WEBSITES for SPEECH & LANGUAGE