When you’re a speech-language pathologist with a caseload of 70 or more kids, group therapy is a necessary evil.
Sometimes it feels like group speech/language therapy only happens because we don’t have enough time to see each child individually.
But there are actually a lot of really great benefits to group therapy!
Kids are much more likely to work on these hard skills when they see other kids working on them, too.
And hearing it in others’ speech can improve their awareness of their own speech.
Plus, we get a ton of practice on navigating interpersonal skills.
But running a speech/language group can also be daunting.
I’m speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in today’s episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I’m going to show you some quick and easy ways to run your speech/language therapy groups with NO prep time at all!
You can listen to the full podcast episode below:
If groups are still getting you down, consider 5-minute sessions instead!
For this approach, you see each child from the group for 5 minutes independently instead of for 30 minutes in a group (or whatever your original schedule was).
You can still see the same number of students during that time block but each student will get in more repetitions in less time.
The short nature of the session means you don’t have to provide games or activities.
You simply drill for 5 minutes and then send them on their way.
The research shows PHENOMENAL gains when using this approach!
You’ll need to rework their IEPs to reflect the lower minutes but then you’ll see faster progress in less time.
We have all of the tools and resources you need to make this happen!
Just join us inside The Hub and take “The Way”.
In this series of videos, I’ll show you exactly how to get set up for this Way of doing speech therapy.
I’ll even give you the data pages!
Come let me help you!
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