Are you looking to update your New Year-themed speech and language therapy? I definitely was! I wanted to provide opportunities for my students not only to look back and consider the growth that had been made, but also to look forward to setting new goals related to their speech and language skills and overall life. Every year, I make a vision board of the things I want to accomplish and/or experience more of for the upcoming year.
Vision boards are a wonderful way to help our students explore their creativity, goals, and hopes and dreams for what they would like to accomplish or experience. Vision boards are also a wonderful way to build their speech and language skills, too! To create a vision board, provide a variety of colored construction paper, glue, scissors, magazines, stickers, writing tools (pens, crayons, etc, depending on ages), and let students create a collage of their goals and hopes. Older students can also bring in age-appropriate magazines, pictures from home, or printed graphics from a computer. Once students have completed their vision boards, have students share what their vision boards mean to them. While they share the meaning of the pictures or words included in their vision board, have them target their speech and language skills through overall generalization of using those skills. For example, students can use self-monitoring and self-correction of their error sounds, practice utilizing fluency-shaping and stuttering modification techniques, or incorporate language targets into their explanations.
Below, you can find additional freebies that can be used within your therapy sessions if you are looking for something quick that requires little preparation time and can be incorporated into a variety of speech and language goals.
- New Year’s Resolution Party Hats by SpeechBop – This freebie has students making goals and can easily be turned into decorations for the speech room or bulletin board.
- New Year’s Writing, Resolutions, and Goals – Digital/Print by Addie Williams – This freebie includes several pages that can be incorporated into in-person speech therapy and teletherapy services.
- New Year’s Following Directions by Speech Language Lady – Students work on following 2 and 3-step directions with this wonderful freebie.
- Editable New Year Activity: Resolutions and Writing Prompts for Middle and High School Google Doc by NYC Speechies – This is a wonderful freebie to use with your older students.
- Speech in the New Year by Teach Speech 365 – This great freebie not only targets setting goals but also includes a variety of language targets.
- My Favorites in the Past Year and Here’s to the Next Year by Panda Speech – This is a nice way to create a discussion to review progress made and what students hope to come in the new year.
- No Prep Articulation Worksheets by All Things School SLP – This is a quick no-prep articulation sheet to target /k/ or to use as an open-ended articulation sheet where any sound can be added.
- New Year’s Speech Resolution Craft by Speech Dreams – This freebie includes several wand craft ideas that can get your students thinking about what they want to focus their attention on in speech therapy.
- Speech Therapy Roll & Color Articulation and Door Sign by Twin Speech Language and Literacy – This freebie includes Roll & Color pages for /g, s, l/ and an open-ended page, too!
- Happy New Year, Goals and Highlights by Simply Motor Skills – A super cute way to review the highlights from the previous year and make new goals for the current year.
Looking for more ideas? Check out these blog posts!
- 5 New Year’s Freebies for Speech and Language Therapy
- New Year’s Themed Activities & Resources for Speech and Language Therapy
- 59+ Free New Year’s Speech Therapy Activities
- New Year’s Speech and Language Activities for Kids
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