Speech therapy mindfulness, Speech therapy yoga, Mindfulness activities, warm up

Get your sessions off to a focused start with SPEECH THERAPY MINDFULNESS AND YOGA WARM-UPS! This research backed practice is a great way to warm-up before your sessions. All prompt cards focus on speech and language objectives so you can target goals while guiding your students/clients toward a mindful way of thinking!

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WHY exactly should I invest in mindfulness and yoga strategies during speech therapy?

✏ It’s research backed! Scholarly research is finding that practicing mindfulness and yoga with school-aged children decreases stress and anxiety, improves attention and memory, benefits emotional regulation, and is linked with improved social-emotional skills. Practicing mindfulness LITERALLY changes the brain by activating neurological components related to memory, emotion, and behavior regulation. In short, improved speech and language outcomes!

✏ WHAT’S INCLUDED?

• 4 individual Yoga Mats

• 12 yoga poses (2 cards of each) and directions for each pose

• 6 articulation prompts (2 cards of each)

• 6 language prompts (2 cards of each) with follow-up questions to check for understanding

• 6 mindfulness prompts (2 cards of each) with follow-up questions to check for understanding

***COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE COPY INCLUDED

✏ DIRECTIONS FOR USE

1. Have student/client chose a yoga mat.
2. Have student/client chose a yoga pose.
3. Chose a direction card based on your target objective for the warm-up.
4. Read the “Yoga Pose Description” for the yoga pose card chosen as your student/client takes their pose (optional).
5. When the student/client is ready, read the direction card. Depending on which card you chose, you may wish to repeat the prompt and/or read it very slowly in order to give your student/client time to process the objective and complete multiple rounds of breathing.
6. When the prompt has been covered and the objective completed, tell your student/client to slowly open their eyes and come back to their seats.
7. Depending on the card/prompt chosen, you can then discuss the objective that was targeted.
8. Repeat as a warm-up for every session! This will be a wonderful and consistent way to begin sessions with attentive students/clients with mindful attitudes!

✏ OBJECTIVES TARGETED

Articulation cards:

• Diaphragmatic breathing

• Oral-motor awareness

• Controlled breathing

• Listening for the target sound

• Target sounds in isolation

• Target sounds in words

Language cards:

• Categories

• “WH” questions (where and when)

• Describing

• Object function

• Vocabulary for body parts

Mindfulness cards:

• Relaxation/Emotional awareness

• Gratitude and love

• Body awareness

• Letting go of frustration

• Letting go of anxiety

• Practicing empathy

• Embedded “wh” questions (for who and what)

♥ Recommend printing on CARDSTOCK and LAMINATING for use over time.

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