Stealth Speech Therapy

Mrs Neu learned to use poems and other teaching tricks to help children with speech problems without having to send them out of the classroom for speech therapy. She figured this out by observing Birch Lane Speech Teacher Karen Larrsen and reading Talking Time, a book by Louise Binder Scott and J. J. Thompson.

“It was obvious to me that as a classroom teacher I could easily facilitate practice in hearing a particular sound and could give opportunities to use these sounds without ever having to single out students with speech problems. ”

Here is the first poem she did:

Seven
Silly
Sad
Sisters
Sat
   in the sunshine
   in a circle
Sobbing
Sighing
Singing
   this sad silly song (the song is a speech practice circle):