Halloween Pocket Charts (FREE)

Here is another great FREE Halloween app that is great for speech therapy.  This app is called Pocket Charts! Halloween Matching Game. This app is great for similarities and differences.  The student needs to discriminate between two possible pictures that match the picture in the pocket.  Some of the pictures are easier than others but they are all a great way to work on noticing similarities and differences and talking about them as well.  I also think this is a great activity for teaching the motor skill of "dragging" an object to another place on the screen.  I had my student locate the picture and then tell me why it was the correct choice before they moved the picture to the pocket line.  If you are able to project you iPad onto a screen or whiteboard, this would also be a fun larger group activity.

More Halloween app activities

More Monster Mash Up Fun!
I posted last week about the free Monster Mash Up and using it for a barrier type of activity working on describing or similarities or differences.  Using screen shots I created some cards to accompany the app. You can preview and download the activity below.  This could work with a group of two or more.  Give one student the iPad and have them create a monster.  Then they describe their monster to the other students.  The other students then use the cards to create a monster that looks like the one on the iPad.  You can address attributes, sentence structure, listening skills, memory and so much more with this one activity.  You could also just make multiple sets of the cards and just use them if you don 't have an iPad.  Let me know what you think of this activity in the comments!

Sample Monster page 1

Download the pdf document here.  Then you can just print, laminate, cut and enjoy!  I hope you have fun finding great ways to use these cards and the free app in your speech room!

 Here is how I set up the activity for 2 students in my room. 

Halloween apps for speech

Happy October!

I came across a couple of apps today that I think would be fun to use in therapy over the next couple of weeks.  Although they are not traditional speech therapy apps, with a little creativity, they are great apps that engage students and address goals.

The first app is called Halloween Sound Shelf.  This app is really just a bookshelf of Halloween icons that make a spooky sound when you press them.  This would be a great in a group activity for making a story about Halloween.  This could be done with Halloween vocabulary words or Halloween themed articulation targets.  The kids write out a story and choose sounds to go into their story.  Students can take turns being the “reader” and being the "sound guy".  I really think the kids would get into this activity and I can't wait to try it next week with my students.

The second app is called Monster Mash Lite.  This is like one of those old flip books where you can change the head, torso and legs to create new monsters.  I think this would work well for kids working on describing.  They can create their own monster and then describe it to the other students or therapist.  Another idea would be to use the app like a barrier game and have the other students to draw what the student describes.  The students can then look at the iPad monster and drawn monsters and find the similarities and differences.

Let me know in the comments if you find other ones and how you would use them in therapy!