Speech Therapy Push In Group Activities for Self Contained Classrooms - Apples

Apples Lesson: Creating and executing speech therapy group push in lessons and activities for your moderate to severe self contained classrooms of complex communicators is hard. There is so much to think about... AAC, visual impairments, switches, nonverbal students, attention, cognitive levels vs. age levels... Well, I'm here to take the mental load off of your next speech therapy group push in lesson!

Provide great push in services for speech therapy in your self contained classrooms!

All About Apples
Material in this lesson is presented simply, yet appropriate for all ages. For example, this very simple lesson about apples includes information like colors of apples (information appropriate for pre-K to early elementary classes), parts of an apple (information appropriate for upper elementary classes), and vitamins found in apples and how they help our body systems (information appropriate for older students).

Visual Challenges Addressed in the Apples Push In Lesson:

• All picture cards are simple line drawings.
• Real pictures are included.
• Picture cards include two different sizes and both sizes come in regular and high contrast to accommodate students with visual impairments.
• Use of the speak feature in PowerPoint
  

Access Challenges Addressed in the Apples Push In Lesson:

• This push in lesson contains specific instructions on how to get switch access to all of the slides using a switch interface
• This push in speech therapy activity is very engaging for switch users!

Deaf/Hard of Hearing Challenges Addressed in the Apples Push In Lesson:

• Tons of visual supports

This push in speech therapy activity is perfect for you if you have you ever thought:

>"It is so hard to include activities for my most complex students."

>"It is difficult to find age and level-appropriate material for cognitively and communicatively complex students."

>"I want to do push in therapy but I don't have the time or mental resources to do what it takes to create a productive lesson."

>"I don't even know where to begin with push in speech therapy in my self-contained classrooms"

>"I feel like a hot mess every time I try to execute a push in whole group speech lesson in my self-contained classrooms!"

Alleviate all of those pain points with this lesson!

What you will get with this group push in activity:
- PowerPoint Activity Slides (available in PPT only)
- Picture cards to go along with each activity

- Sentence strips for each activity

- A read along with pictures to accompany the information presented
- an Apple Activity Mat digital download
- Describing apples prompt cards
- Core boards based on 36 Universal Core in regular, high contrast, large, and large high contrast

Targets for this speech therapy group push in lesson include:

• Basic Functions
• Basic Describing
• Core Words
• Simple Categories
• Simple Yes and No Questions (ask and answer)
• Asking Simple Questions
• Answering Simple Questions
• Increasing Utterance Length (MLU)
• Switch Use (you will need a switch interface to use with the slides)
• Turn Taking
• Basic Directions
• Labeling
• Identifying

There are lots of apple activities to choose from in this lesson, so choose which activities you'd like to complete in your session or stretch this lesson across multiple sessions!

The best part?
You can stop stressing about push in for your moderate to severe complex communicators! It's all laid out for you. Clear instructions, a lesson that flows, plenty of picture support, and plenty of participation opportunities for even your most complex communicators.

Consistency is key, especially with this population. This line of Push-In Speech products has been created to remain consistent and routine with the flow of activities across each lesson.

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