Speech Therapy -> Executive Function -> Working Memory
Working Memory
Cognitive system that deals with short term memory storage and manipulating information for retrieval. For example, listening to a story, remembering events, and attempting to understand the meaning of the story concurrently.
Activity List(s)
- 7 Word Sentences 1
- 8 Word Sentences 1
- Fairytale Villains 2
- Famous Fairytale Characters 2
- Fairytale Word List 7
- Dragons Word List 7
- Questions related to The Full Hunter’s Moon in October 8
- Compensatory Strategies for Organization and Recall 1
- Monster Story: Sasquatch, female 6
- List of 10 US migration birds moving South in the Fall 7
- Monster Story: Werewolf, male 7
- Dragon Hunter Short Story 2
- Winter Multisyllabic Words in Paragraphs 1
- Questions about Dragons 7
- Weather Vocabulary List 1
Visual Schedule Cards
Goal Bank
- Given read aloud short stories or other language activities and minimal cues, Ilona will recall details and answer 'wh' questions (what/where/when/why) using complete and correct phoneme structure with 80% accuracy over 5 consecutive sessions to improve language comprehension and expression. 3
- Kelly will follow simple one-step directions with moderate cueing with 80% accuracy across 3 of 5 sessions. 1
- Eric will retell a narrative, recalling 80% of details given minimal cueing across 3 of 5 sessions. 1
- Eric will sequence 5 details for one story given minimal cueing across 3 of 5 sessions. 1
- Morris will recall short words (approximately 4-6 phonemes in length) verbatim with 80% accuracy across 5 consecutive sessions to demonstrate attention, working memory, and/or auditory awareness skills. 2
- Given visual and verbal stimuli, Coleman will expressively segment, manipulate and blend phonemes together (initial, medial, and final positions of words) with 90% accuracy across 3 therapy sessions to improve auditory processing skills. 4
- When given decreasing cues, Earlie will retell a short story using at least 4 complete sentences with appropriate grammar, details, and sequence in 90% accuracyacross 4 consecutive sessions to improve expressive and receptive language skills. 3
- When given verbal, visuals or gesture prompts, Teri will use 2+ words to describe a picture with 80% accuracy, over 3 consecutive sessions, as measured by observations, data collection and/or standardized testing to increase expressive language skills. 2
Resources
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Kiki's Spring Language Adventure: Describe It (Color Edition)
Gabriella Cousino, M.S., CF-SLP
"Kiki's Spring Language Adventure: Describe It (Color Edition)" is a resource created to target use of adjectives, color names, modifiers, and overall use of descriptive language. In this resource,...
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Living Room Build a Scene: Speech and Language Activities
Jessica Lenden-Holt
16 pages of multiple living room scenes, living room items, different sized items, design your own living room activity, family members, pets.
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Kiki's Bunny Match
Bethany Ayer
Memory games can promote the development of: • Visual - figure ground skills • Visual -perceptual skills • Executive functioning • Visual discrimination
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Back to School Word Hunt
Bethany Ayer
A quick 1 page printout to get back in the 'back to school' mindset. Have your client write as many items as they can think of for each category.
Includes activity list4