Speechy

Speechy Certified European Speech Therapist in Kuwait with over 10 years of experience.

I provide:

- articulation assessments,
- therapy โ€“ 0-18 years old, including early intervention
- counselling for parents in accordance to The Hanen Centerยฎ Standards.

Some ideas for dynamic speech and language assessment for partially speaking kiddies, based on their special interests w...
16/03/2024

Some ideas for dynamic speech and language assessment for partially speaking kiddies, based on their special interests with supported communication (for all of them, it was first experience with AAC) during child-led activity:

1) 3D ballerina - naming actions, body parts, concepts, tracing, cutting and glueing, phrases, etc.
Modelled words: more, different, get, put,in, on, open, open+here, help.

2) 3D ballerina final product. I mean, isn't she lovely ๐Ÿ˜ thankzzzz for the ๐Ÿ“ธ ๐Ÿ’Ÿ

3) Play Doh hot dogs and pizza!!!! - shared attention, focus span, cooperative play, imaginative play, naming actions, shapes, etc. We used colouring mat with vehicles to stick PlayDoh shapes on, under, between ๐Ÿ˜‰
Modelled words: this, that, me, you, different, help, get, open, more, no.

4) Mini-objects travelling (duck and her frendo zebra) on the PlayDoh roads with PlayDoh islands, they had a meet-up for an egg and cupcake with chocolate somewhere on that map - play, solutions, cooperation, sounds elicitation. And the most interesting โ—๏ธโ—๏ธโ—๏ธ checking the prints left by all of the mini objects on the PlayDoh ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿฅฐ
Modelled words: open, want, more, help, look.

Why not toimplement some more lexical opportunities while working minimal pairs?๐Ÿ”ด spell it!๐Ÿ”ต describe it!๐ŸŸ  use it in a s...
20/02/2024

Why not toimplement some more lexical opportunities while working minimal pairs?

๐Ÿ”ด spell it!
๐Ÿ”ต describe it!
๐ŸŸ  use it in a sentence!
๐ŸŸก give it a category!

Yay!

These photos show aftermath, yet we were focused on something else today. Sound /ch/ suggestion...let's say you have 3-e...
04/01/2024

These photos show aftermath, yet we were focused on something else today. Sound /ch/ suggestion...let's say you have 3-element animal puzzles in a cupboard, 20 separate sets in a box, which gives you 60 elements overall, where you could introduce animal friends having a chew party - either ๐Ÿฅ“ or ๐Ÿฅš (yes, technically we don't chew eggs, but we need a sound)...so within that socially funny event accompanied by animals, your student has an opportunity to repeat 5 times 60 "chew" and /ch/ word is her target.
Would you do it, or would you keep the puzzles only for the sake of putting them together and practise sounds in a more "mature" way?

What dis? Impromptu cluster cue ๐Ÿ˜…IT WORKED with 78% consistency throughout the session.๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ
27/11/2023

What dis? Impromptu cluster cue ๐Ÿ˜…

IT WORKED with 78% consistency throughout the session.

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Yesterday, we played Pokemon cards to drill complex sentences!I had no idea what I was doing, but my student gave me a q...
23/11/2023

Yesterday, we played Pokemon cards to drill complex sentences!

I had no idea what I was doing, but my student gave me a quick lesson, and the rest is history ๐Ÿ˜…

Special interest to the rescue ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

Yesterday, I met the nicest crowd of Parents and shared some ideas on how to support their kids' language and how to rea...
26/09/2023

Yesterday, I met the nicest crowd of Parents and shared some ideas on how to support their kids' language and how to read books in a slightly different way.
The parents were amazing! So engaged and open for a new dosage of knowledge. We had staff members with us and so much great feedback. Thank you ๐Ÿ’•, you are the best!

We are baaackkkk!Halfway still in the summer mode, halfway deep into assessments, reports, evaluations, target choices, ...
19/09/2023

We are baaackkkk!

Halfway still in the summer mode, halfway deep into assessments, reports, evaluations, target choices, discussions, and laughs.

One therapy has provoked me to post this photo as a reminder๐Ÿ˜‰: under no circumstances should your therapy be only task oriented! Especially when you have a superbly chatty and equally vacation mode oriented student ๐Ÿ˜†

Long story short, add breaks to your therapies, and use this time as a dynamic assessment. I can guarantee you will have solid data and a happy kid in front of you ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿป

Science maaaadnessss during speech therapy some time ago...when we were not doing evaluations and it was not that humid....
25/05/2023

Science maaaadnessss during speech therapy some time ago...when we were not doing evaluations and it was not that humid.

Reading "A Crow And A Pitcher" by while running around the garden and looking for rocks? Absolutely!

Checking how big is my adopted clip I found in the garden during duties AND building great narration with our own plant? Just great!

If your therapies are curriculum based, then you cannot dream more ๐Ÿคฉ

Are we there yet?

***3 weeks ahead*** ๐Ÿ›ซ

When you have one of these days when all your prep goes to the bin...We used my colouring mat, and we worked on episodic...
19/05/2023

When you have one of these days when all your prep goes to the bin...

We used my colouring mat, and we worked on episodic narration; now check this out because it was created by my student with a little of cueing from my side:

There was a bistro in the ocean that all fish wanted to go to, but this bistro hired a very strict chef. This chef said that he would not open the bistro until five fish would make a booking for a table. So there was a group of fish friends: Aileen, Offre, Ran and Oakley....but it was not enough for the booking, so they swam through the ocean and looked for one more fish willing to dine with that bunch.

๐Ÿก๐Ÿ ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿฌ

***4 weeks to go***

Oh gosh, how we enjoyed it!Play Doh+trays+mini objects and TONS of communication with carrier phrases and sensory input....
03/05/2023

Oh gosh, how we enjoyed it!

Play Doh+trays+mini objects and TONS of communication with carrier phrases and sensory input.

We were dirty, the room was dirty, but the laugh we had...phew ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ˜

The preetiest mess ever ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿปand the background music matches our spirits fo sho ๐Ÿ˜….We did sounds, phonological awareness, ...
17/03/2023

The preetiest mess ever ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿปand the background music matches our spirits fo sho ๐Ÿ˜….

We did sounds, phonological awareness, maths and science at once ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฉ.

These mini objects were the best spend money ever.

- Will you make me a moustache, Miss?- Always
12/01/2023

- Will you make me a moustache, Miss?

- Always

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