The Power of Push-in Speech Therapy
Think of Push-in Speech Therapy as bringing speech therapy right into a student’s classroom instead of taking them to a separate therapy room. Sometimes the speech therapist might work with students in a corner of the classroom to practice their specific speech and language goals. In an ideal world, they team up with the classroom teacher – it’s pretty cool actually! They work together to weave speech and language support right into curriculum, which helps not just students with IEPs but can benefit the whole class too. It’s like having two teachers in one room, each bringing their own expertise to help kids learn and communicate better.
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In what types of classrooms can you provide Push-in Speech Therapy?
Throughout my 30-year career as a Preschool Speech Language Pathologist, I provided push-in therapy in the following environments:
- Self-contained classrooms in which students had profound disabilities.
- Self-contained classrooms in which students had a range of disabilities and levels of performance.
- Reverse mainstreamed classes in which up to half of the students were typical peers.
- Full inclusion classrooms with a regular education teacher in which less than half of the students had disabilities.
I love working directly in the classroom because...
- It provides lots of opportunities for my students to generalize their skills.
- I'm able to observe my students in a natural environment.
- I see how my students interact with their peers.
- It allows me to collaborate with the teacher on possible curriculum topics.
- I'm able to model therapy techniques for the teacher to implement when I'm not there.
These products were designed with Push-in Speech Therapy in mind
Use BOOM CARDS to teach Negation to the entire class
This Boom Card bundle provides a comprehensive, structured approach to teaching negation. Each level provides progressive scaffolding that's specifically designed for preschool and kindergarten students. While all levels focus on teaching negation, they each utilize distinct sets of stimuli, prompts, and cues, ensuring total mastery by the end of the series.
Teach the concept of Different during circle time
Use the magic of circle time to teach the basic concept of "different" during push-in speech therapy. These two essential BOOM CARD decks will expand your preschool, kindergarten, and 1st-grade students' vocabulary in fun and engaging ways. With scaffolding, visual and auditory prompts and cues, your students will be proficient in no time!
Use choral reading to practice early developing sounds in simple syllable structures
Are you looking for fun and effective ways to help your PreK - K students with Childhood Apraxia of Speech or other severe speech sound disorders? Look no further than this seasonal bundle of stories with early developing sounds and simple syllable shapes, including CV, VC, CVC, CVCV, and CV1CV2 combinations.
Try out this FREE activity during your Push-in
Speech Therapy Sessions.
Teach spatial concepts the fun way! This interactive PowerPoint activity makes position words come alive with engaging animations! Perfect for Push-in therapy, it works on any device with PowerPoint and gets the whole class excited during circle time. Kids get instant feedback on their answers, and if they make a mistake, they can try again. Best of all, you can track progress by using it for quick pre and post-testing of spatial concepts.
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