A Month of Therapy Using an Early Language Picture Book

The SLP Now Podcast

We’re back at it with another episode of the SLP Now podcast! This week, we’re kicking off the first of a six-week series about literacy-based units that you can use across your whole school-age caseload. This week, we’re getting started with therapy plans for an early language book: Lola Plants a Garden.

Early language books include simpler stories that students love. This unit type is ideal for students who might not be ready to sit through a longer story, are working on more foundational language skills, and who benefit from more of a play-based approach.

In the episode, we discuss Dr. Ukrainetz’s five step literacy-based therapy framework, targeting goals like:

• Basic vocabulary
• Basic concepts
• Grammar goals
• Answering questions
• Following directions

…and more!

Lola Plants a Garden offers a great context to target so many goals, and there are a ton of language rich activities to help you make that happen—even if you’re targeting multiple goals with mixed groups.

Listen to this episode as Marisha walks listeners through age-appropriate activities like book walks, virtual field trips, and ideas for play-based therapy to help students engage with the material and sessions.

SHOW NOTES

Full show notes and links to resources mentioned at slpnow.com/183