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On this episode, Hallie shares artistic and enjoyable methods to have interaction older college students (grades 4-12) in articulation remedy. These college students have been via years of speech remedy, and it is time to shake issues up! From podcast creation to role-playing video games, Hallie breaks down 5 easy-to-implement actions that can maintain college students motivated and make articulation follow thrilling once more. Tune in to find tips on how to make speech remedy each related and pleasing
This is what we realized:
- College students can script, report, and self-assess their articulation via dynamic podcast tasks
- Use video games like Dungeons and Dragons to weave articulation targets into enjoyable, interactive situations
- Encourage college students to articulate clearly whereas reviewing their favourite movies or matters
- Create speech challenges and debates to construct confidence and follow articulation in a enjoyable, aggressive setting
- Incorporate college students’ hobbies like gaming, sports activities, or social media into speech actions for max engagement
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00:00:00 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Discuss, the podcast designed completely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 via 12. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman, your SLP behind Speech Time Enjoyable, the Speech Retreat Convention, and the SLP Elevate Membership. And I am thrilled to carry you conversations, methods, and insights that provides you with the jolt of inspiration that you just want. Whether or not you are tuning in throughout your morning commute, on a break in between periods, or rest time. I’m right here for you each week. Let’s do that SLPs.
00:00:46 Hallie: Hey, and welcome to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. Immediately we’re gonna be speaking all about engaged on articulation along with your secondary college students. These grades 4 via 12 college students that may’ve been receiving speech for a lot of, a few years. And we all know that working with this age group could be difficult usually. We’re engaged on articulation objectives. Effectively, our conventional strategies for engaged on articulation might not all the time have interaction this age group.
00:01:15 Hallie: They’ve been receiving speech for years. They’ve been uncovered to these frequent CBC phrases and they’re nonetheless receiving speech. They haven’t mastered their objectives but. They don’t seem to be carrying it over into the classroom or exterior of the speech closet for that matter. We have to make it enjoyable, partaking and related for them. We want their buy-in. Earlier than we will even focus on remedy concepts, we have to ensure that we construct our belief with this age group of scholars.
00:01:448 Hallie: Do they know why they’re there? Do they perceive what sounds they’re engaged on and the way it can influence them if others do not perceive them clearly? Do we all know their private and educational and social objectives and what they wanna get out of coming to speech? Possibly they simply wanna graduate from speech already. And we’d want to only spend the time to debate with them what they should do to perform that, focus on carryover and self-monitoring and self-reflection and self-correction.
00:02:17 Hallie: We additionally must take the time to know their pursuits so we will use it and incorporate it and construct motivation and tailor our actions behind it. I would additionally like to debate progress mindset with my college students and never giving up when issues get difficult and even focus on how I’ve overcome some troublesome conditions. That after we get their belief, their understanding and study what they wanna get out of coming to speech and we will lastly get them mastering their speech objectives as soon as and for all.
00:02:46 Hallie: I will be sharing with you some enjoyable and related ways in which we as secondary SLPs can work on articulation objectives along with your secondary college students. That is one query I get requested usually is how can I get there by and the way can I make it related? How can I make it enjoyable? Listed below are 5 easy methods that don’t contain a variety of prep.
00:03:-4 Hallie: Concept primary, podcast creation. You would have college students create their very own podcasts utilizing matters of curiosity. This may contain scripting, recording
and enhancing and permitting them to even follow their articulation sounds in a dynamic and inventive approach. Your college students can concentrate on their particular sounds or phrases, sentence, conversational stage that they’re engaged on they usually can incorporate them into their scripts. You possibly can have completely different matters which might be bombarded with their articulation sound. You possibly can create a goal thesaurus that they’ve to include that into their script.
00:03:38 Hallie: They’ll report it. They’ll hear again to the recordings, which will help them with self-assessment and self-monitoring and self-reflection. There’s tons of recording softwares on the market. You possibly can even simply use the straightforward voice memo recorder on a telephone or iPad. So it would not need to be fancy to be efficient. However hey, possibly your college has the highschool, center college they’re engaged on, possibly they’ve a radio station or podcasting membership which you can even attempt to get extra info from.
00:04:09 Hallie: Possibly the know-how workforce may even have some software program and proposals that they’ll even home a few of these podcasts on in a non-public approach for them to hear again and be pleased with their progress.
00:04:22 Hallie: All proper, second exercise and approach which you can work on articulation is just a few easy position enjoying video games. You should use position enjoying video games like Dungeons and Dragons, or create your personal situations the place college students should use their focused sounds throughout their interactions. These video games could be tailor-made to incorporate
the vocabulary which have their articulation sound, and situations that is bombarded with their sounds, and encourage your college students to make use of their articulation targets and clear speech to attain their in-game goals, which is a option to play and have enjoyable and follow their objectives in a significant approach if that is one thing that they’re motivated in and for.
00:05:01 Hallie: All proper, quantity three, YouTube video evaluations. You possibly can encourage your college students to create video evaluations or response movies on matters that they get pleasure from. This may be for something from motion pictures, to music, to video video games, and know-how devices. They’ll follow their articulation targets in a well-known context, they usually can concentrate on talking clearly whereas discussing topics that they’re obsessed with. For this reason it’s so essential so that you can perceive their objectives and their pursuits which you can simply tailor to that.
00:05:33 Hallie: You possibly can put together a number of YouTube movies for them to evaluate forward of time, and even they’ll analysis them and discover them on their very own. They’ll do these side-by-side, form of nearly like TikTok-y form of movies with out having to make use of an precise social media platform.
00:05:47 Hallie: All proper, and quantity 4, having speech challenges and competitions. You possibly can manage pleasant video games and competitions the place they possibly have speeches or debates or persuasive talks. They’ll present using their targets on and even provide prizes or recognition for effort and enchancment. This may enable them to spice up that confidence, work on public talking, and it simply makes a aggressive surroundings much more interactive and enjoyable and related versus simply giving arbitrary phrase lists and having them follow over and time and again.
That may be boring. They have been doing it for years and it is not sticking. We’ll must have contextualized studying in a enjoyable and interactive approach. Okay.
00:06:31 Hallie: And lastly, we will use their pursuits and objectives. Possibly they need to ask a lady to the promenade. Possibly they need to check out for the varsity play. Possibly they need to simply really feel comfy ordering meals at a restaurant or making use of for a job. No matter it’s, we will use it for position enjoying and even simply phrase lists for follow. So listed below are some matters that your secondary college students is likely to be curious about which you can incorporate these into some phrase lists which might be bombarded with their articulations sound.
00:07:00 Hallie: So one, clearly, know-how and gaming. They’ll do newest online game releases and evaluations, digital actuality and augmented actuality developments. They’ll speak about synthetic intelligence and even possibly the way forward for know-how, robots, automation, having some debates and possibly researching the matters and presenting it to one another.
00:07:19 Hallie: Quantity two, social media and popular culture. Possibly influencer tradition and the rise of TikTok stars. Possibly well-known, like instructing one another the dances, incorporating their goal sound. Fashionable music genres and prime charts, viral traits and memes, celeb gossip and leisure information. You possibly can learn some issues and simply once more, preview issues forward of time to ensure it is applicable for varsity. Science and nature, possibly they are often speaking about latest discoveries and area exploration like every journeys to Mars and any SpaceX form of issues. Local weather change and environmental conservation, leading edge medical developments and improvements.
00:08:00 Hallie: Possibly simply science behind pure phenomenons like storms and earthquakes. And speak about sports activities and recreation. Discuss concerning the newest updates for main sports activities leagues. Possibly discuss concerning the previous summer time Olympics. Profiles of aspiring athletes. You possibly can learn articles and analysis a number of the well-known athletes which might be all up on the information or issues that they could simply be motivated by some soccer gamers and issues like that.
00:08:28 Hallie: Excessive sports activities and journey actions, well being and health traits for youngsters. You possibly can speak about artwork and creativity, speaking about graffiti tradition, images, movie evaluation. You possibly can speak about schooling and profession planning, school software course of, exploring completely different profession paths and job markets. You possibly can speak about private growth and well-being, possibly psychological well being and stress administration, time administration, productiveness hacks, wholesome relationships.
00:08:56 Hallie: No matter they’re, if that is one thing that they are into, incorporate it. Present occasions and social points. You possibly can speak about cultural variety, international citizenship, political debates. There is a presidential election happening this season. So you may incorporate that into, in a non-biased approach. You possibly can analysis it, comply with it and speak about it. If that is one thing that they’re into.
00:09:19 Hallie: Can speak about journey and prime journey locations for teenagers, work on like a journey tip information and price range pleasant adventures. Trend and way of life. We will analysis newest trend traits like and nearly like trend influencers and issues like that. You possibly can discuss concerning the way of life influencers and their influence on youth tradition and DIY trend tasks nearly like a challenge runway, nearly like challenge runway form of tasks.
00:09:45 Hallie: Anyway, by incorporating and specializing in matters that your college students are into, you may simply create partaking and relatable actions in your secondary college students and inspiring them to take part and them seeing the relevance of what they’re doing and the way it can influence their speech exterior of your speech room. We do not need them to be doing arbitrary lists. We would like them to see how what we’re doing is gonna assist them, you assist them grasp their objectives as soon as and for all.
00:10:12 Hallie: And lastly, I did not embrace, I wasn’t going to incorporate this, however I am gonna say this anyway, particularly you probably have blended teams. You company your articulation college students within the language duties. Allow them to be language fashions. Construct up their confidence that approach. But additionally they’ll profit from language actions since that is actions which might be related to their college day and it may well present them how what you’re doing is gonna assist them within the classroom. They may need to take part and reply questions on inferential questions within the classroom. Effectively, they’ll follow that in your speech room with their articulation goal. After which be the articulation, the language fashions in your language comprehension college students.
00:10:50 Hallie: It is one other approach that it may not be as motivating, however it would construct their confidence and they’ll see that they’re stronger with their language duties they usually can do these issues simply. So long as they perceive possibly why they’re doing it and the way it may even assist them. Like they are saying, hey, that is simple for me. Yeah, it is easy for you, however we’re gonna follow utilizing your speech sounds whereas doing it in order that once you do issues like this within the classroom, you could be extra assured in taking part and answering questions out loud.
00:11:18 Hallie: All proper, so by incorporating these actions that I shared with you right here at present, we as secondary SLPs can create a extra partaking and efficient studying expertise along with your secondary college students which might be nonetheless engaged on these articulation sounds. After all, we have to work out why are they nonetheless struggling when what different approaches is likely to be wanted, however a few of it would simply be getting their buy-in and exhibiting them how what you’re doing is related and motivating them.
who lastly take part and eventually graduate from speech.
00:11:50 Hallie: Okay, so it is all the time, you realize, we’re doing the identical factor time and again and anticipating completely different outcomes, that is madness. We have to strive one thing completely different. If our college students are nonetheless receiving speech at this stage, we have to do a distinct strategy. We have to present them how what we’re doing is related, the way it’s gonna assist them incorporate their objectives and pursuits and what they wanna get out of coming to speech and having these conversations on an everyday, common foundation.
00:12:18 Hallie: All proper, I all the time finish my episodes with a joke. Why do calculators make nice mates? You possibly can all the time depend on them. Till subsequent week, everybody, keep out of hassle. We’ll maintain motivating these older speech college students and making such an influence.
00:12:41 Hallie: Thanks a lot for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. It means the world to me that you just’re tuning in each week and getting the jolt of inspiration you want. Yow will discover the entire hyperlinks and knowledge talked about on this episode at my web site, speechtimefun.com. Do not forget to comply with the present so you do not miss any future episodes. And when you’re there, it might imply the world to me in case you would take a number of seconds and go away me an trustworthy evaluate. See you subsequent week with one other episode stuffed with enjoyable and inspiration from one SLP to a different. Have enjoyable guys.
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