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4 Steps for Using a Calendar for Meaningful Language and Cognitive-Communicative Therapy

By Lisa A. Young, MA, CCC-SLP

on April 5, 2021

Categories: Cognition , Home Health , Speech Pathology

Imagine for a moment that you’ve irrevocably lost your calendar.

Feel a little panicked?

Now imagine that you’re holding your calendar in your hand, but instead of being a useful tool it’s a source of frustration.

Many of our patients find themselves in this position, due to head injury , disease, or other conditions. The difficulties causing their frustration may lie at the level of language skills , cognitive-communication skills , or both.

Fortunately, we can address this problem in four steps:

• Identify a personally relevant goal.
• Select appropriate calendar-based therapy activities.
• Choose an appropriate calendar.
• Use an effective teaching method.

1) Identify a Personally Relevant Goal

In order to ensure that therapy is functional for each individual patient, we need to take the time to discover what is important to them. When we understand the ultimate goal of therapy, we can ensure that our therapy activities are personally relevant.

We should ask ourselves, “What will our patient be able to do in their daily life when we discharge that they couldn’t do at the start of therapy?”

2) Select Appropriate Calendar-Based Therapy Activities

Once we’ve identified our patients’ goal, we can choose appropriate therapy activities at the level of their impairment. Here are some ideas, broken down by language and cognitive-communication skills.

Reading and Writing

To address issues in reading or writing, we may ask our patients to answer (or read) questions such as the following:

• Which month is this calendar turned to?
• Please point to Monday, April 5th.
• Do you have any appointments on the last Friday of this month?
• What do you have planned for April 21st?
• Write down tomorrow’s date and appointments on this yellow sticky note and put it on your bathroom mirror.
• Do you have any appointment cards? Let’s add them to your calendar.
• Pencil in this imaginary appointment: Dr. Roberts, Monday, May 10th at 1:30 P.M. (Be sure to erase it afterward to avoid creating confusion!)

Auditory Comprehension

Impaired auditory comprehension can also limit our patients’ ability to accurately understand conversations with receptionists, medical professionals, caregivers, or family members. Work on auditory comprehension skills with therapeutic instruction and questions such as:

• Point to where it says “April.”
• Where is the first Monday in the month?
• Today is Friday, April 9th. Where is that?
• Point to your last therapy appointment.
• Show me your birthday (or name a holiday).
• Point to your next doctor’s appointment.

Verbal Expression

Impaired verbal expression limits our patients’ ability to make, confirm, or change appointments. To improve speaking skills, ask questions such as:

• What is your date of birth?
• Say the days of the week in order (from memory or read from the calendar).
• What is today? Yesterday? Tomorrow?
• Say the months of the year.
• What is the month? Last month? Next month?
• What appointment do you have tomorrow?
• When is your next dentist appointment?
• What would you say to a medical scheduler who wants to book an appointment at the same time as one you have with another doctor?
• Imagine I’m your doctor’s receptionist. How would you ask to change this appointment to another day?

Cognitive-Communication

While solid language skills are a necessary prerequisite for using a calendar effectively, they aren’t sufficient. Broader cognitive-communication skills are necessary as well, including visual attention, memory, reasoning and problem solving, and executive function skills.

To address these broader cognitive-communication skills, ask questions such as:

• What’s the next major holiday?
• What was the last major holiday?
• When is your next doctor’s appointment?
• What was your last doctor’s appointment?
• Let’s practice your short-term memory strategies by remembering that you have an appointment with your podiatrist at 9 A.M. on Friday. I’ll ask you every so often what your next appointment is.
• Imagine that your dentist calls and wants to reschedule your cleaning to 9:30 this Friday. What would you say? (It conflicts with the podiatry appointment.)
• I see that you have three appointments next Monday. Please tell me your plan for the day, starting with what time you’ll have to get up.

There’s nothing like performing meaningful tasks to reinforce the strategies we teach. Whenever possible, try to engage the patient in real-world tasks, such as:

• Call and confirm your appointment for tomorrow.
• Make a new appointment and record the details.
• Take a stack of appointment cards and add them to the calendar.
• Make a list of questions to ask at your next doctor’s appointment.

3. Choose an Appropriate Calendar

Once we know our patients’ goals and the specific skills we’ll be training, we must decide what type of calendar we will use. Will we use a patient’s existing calendar or introduce a new tool? Will we use a paper month-view calendar? A weekly schedule book with pre-printed hours? A white board? An electronic calendar? A virtual assistant like Google Home or Amazon’s Alexa?

In order to select an appropriate tool, we consider what our patient used prior to injury or illness and what they’re using now. We consider their strengths and weaknesses along with their goals. And, of course, we ask them what their preferences are. We can then make a couple of recommendations based on our clinical judgment and allow them to choose what they’d like to try.

4. Use an Effective Teaching Method

Finally, we must decide which teaching method we will use. While a teach-and-test method may be effective for someone who is only mildly impaired, many patients don’t respond well to this trial-and-error method. We may instead wish to use systematic instruction or another errorless learning protocol to teach language and cognitive-communication strategies and procedures.

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Lisa A. Young, MA, CCC-SLP

Lisa A. Young, MA, CCC-SLP, is the creator of Eat, Speak, & Think , a resource for medical SLPs working in home health. She holds a master's degree in speech pathology from the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as a master’s degree in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, and has earned four ASHA ACE awards. Lisa has 13 years of experience working with people with problems in swallowing, speech production, understanding or using spoken or written language, voice, and cognitive-communication skills.

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Scheduling appointments

One patient I worked with was having trouble scheduling appointments.

• Disorganized
• Not taking notes during the phone call.
• Waiting too long before adding the information to her calendar.
• Using a monthly calendar with small boxes.
• Messy and hard to read.

I recommended that she get a planner, which her daughter picked up. I taught the strategies:

• Have planner open to avoid double-booking.
• Take notes during the phone call.
• Read back the information to confirm details.
• Write in planner immediately.

When I went in for the next couple of sessions, I looked at her planner to see if I could understand it. Then I asked her questions about it. And finally, I had her call and make a new appointment. I could have asked her to confirm an appointment if she didn’t need to make a new one.

I listened to her side of the conversation to make sure she was gathering the correct information and confirming it, then watched as she wrote the information in the book.

That was all she needed. She was independently making and keeping track of her own appointments accurately when I discharged her.

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Sample goals

Patient will demonstrate:

• Ability to add new appointments to personal planner with 90% accuracy independently to improve ability to manage own schedule by 12.31.19.
• Understanding of personal schedule by answering comprehension questions with 100% accuracy independently to improve ability to participate in desired activities by 12.31.19.

Organizing information

Another patient complained that calling doctors and the home health agency was a hassle. He had the phone numbers written down in various places, so it was an effort to find the information to make the calls.

He’d been using a smart phone for awhile, but his daughter had only entered family contacts. He was open to learning how to enter new contacts into his cell phone. So I spent about ten minutes during one session teaching that skill and guiding him to practice by adding a few home health and MD numbers.

At the next session, he told me that he tried adding another one on his own but got stuck. So I retaught that part and had him write down a reminder note about how to do that step.

At the following session, he had added more of his doctors and even included the addresses. He said that it made making phone calls really easy, and he wasn’t procrastinating anymore.

Patient will demonstrate ability to:

• Add at least 5 new contacts to electronic contact book with 100% accuracy independently to improve organization of information for daily tasks by 12.31.19.
• Make at least 3 phone calls using electronic contact book with 100% accuracy independently to improve ability to communicate with medical professionals in a timely manner by 12.31.19.

Daily writing to improve attention and memory

Another patient I worked with recently had pretty significant impairment of attention, memory, and executive function skills. She reported various problems which were frustrating to her:

• Difficulty remembering strategies from PT and OT.
• Trouble remembering recent conversations.
• Not oriented to the day of week or the date.
• No longer able to read for pleasure
• Couldn’t sign her name (or write functionally).

One activity I started her on was to write in a notebook every day. In the beginning, she started off by copying the day of the week and the date with the help of her husband. And she signed her name over and over (the OT started that) as homework.

We built up to her writing the day of week and the date, copying her daily therapy schedule down, and then adding one of the strategies she was working on for each therapy.

On days when she didn’t have therapy, I had her write down a brief note about something that she did that day.

By the time I discharged her to outpatient therapy, she:

• Could remember key recommendations from PT, OT, and ST.
• Was oriented to time from memory.
• Could sign her name.
• Was remembering recent events without referring to her notes.
• Could write short sentences (with errors).

Patient will:

• be oriented to day of week, date, and time using visual supports as needed with 100% accuracy independently to improve daily function and reduce frustration by 12.31.19.
• recall at least 3 recommendations from any therapy with 100% accuracy independently using visual supports as needed to improve safety and independence by 12.31.19.

Word finding

Another patient was having mild difficulty with word finding, which was very frustrating for her. I taught her Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA), which she learned how to do very quickly. I also taught her word finding strategies.

In therapy, we did a variety of word retrieval exercises for two reasons. First, to give her the opportunity to use the word finding strategies when she failed to retrieve a word. And second, to identify challenging exercises to assign for homework.

I also asked her to complete at least one SFA each day, ideally using a word that she really had trouble retrieving in her normal conversation.

She worked diligently, and when I discharged after six sessions she was independently using the strategies and was experiencing far fewer word retrieval failures (less than once a day).

• ability to use at least 3 word finding strategies during moments of word finding failure on 4 of 5 opportunities to improve communication and reduce frustration by 12.31.19.
• no more than one un-repaired word-finding failure during 30 minutes of conversation independently to demonstrate improved word-finding skills for conversation by 12.31.19.

Using YouTube for attention and memory

Another patient I worked with recently had left neglect, with general attention and memory deficits. His wife really wanted him to be able to focus on television and then be able to discuss what they watched. He was happy to work on anything that would help him.

I found a seven-minute TED talk, divided into three parts, that I knew he would enjoy.

The first time he watched it, he was very excited and talked during the video. After it was over, he said how much he liked the video but his comments were only tangentially-related. He couldn’t recall any specific details independently.

So I taught the strategies of paying attention and noticing the details. We then watched the time lapse section from 0:50 to 1:58 and I asked him to tell me what he could remember. He could not remember the four specific examples: the mushroom, the creeping vine, the air traffic, and the ship traffic.

We worked on remembering those four examples using WRAP: writing, repetition, association, and picturing it (visualization). By the end of the session, he was able to watch that part of the exciting video and then state the four examples. He worked on studying the video for homework, and we continued in this way.

By the end of therapy, he was able to recall at least eight specific details independently and several more when given a question prompt. Ideally, I would have had him watch a new video to see if his performance was improved, but we ran out of time with the reassessment and discharge.

Sample goal

• demonstrate ability to recall at least 5 specific details from information recently heard or seen with 100 percent accuracy independently to improve ability to engage in leisure activities by 12.31.19.

Remembering spouse’s name after brain surgery

I treated a young man recently after brain surgery who was persistently calling his wife by his ex-wife’s name. As you can imagine, this was embarrassing for him even though his wife didn’t seem overly bothered by it.

In addition to treating general word-finding and memory deficits, we focused on her name. I taught the WRAP strategies of writing, repetition, association, and picturing (visualization).

Then I had him write her name 10 times which imagining her face and saying her name each time he wrote it. I suggested doing that every day until he wasn’t mixing the names up anymore. Finally, I helped him to find an association that would help trigger the word when he was in conversation with her.

This is a fictional example to preserve privacy, but the idea is the same. His wife’s name was Marla, and he created a little phrase “I’m married to Marla” that he would think when he saw her. This way, he was sure of her name and it reduced the anxiety of possibly mixing the names up in conversation.

We spent perhaps 10 minutes total in therapy on this issue. When I returned the following week, he reported that he was no longer mixing up the names and was no longer feeling stress about it.

Sample goals:

• independently use recommended strategies to recall wife’s name in 9 of 10 opportunities by report or observation to reduce stress and embarrassment by 12.31.19.
• demonstrate the use of at least 3 memory strategies for recalling preferred information with 100% accuracy independently to improve recall of important information by 12.31.19.

Basic executive function skills

I recently worked with a patient who was impaired in all areas of cognitive-communication. It seemed that working memory and executive function skills were impacting her the most.

Her specific complaints included:

• Difficulty remembering and following directions.
• Unable to complete basic reading and writing tasks.
• Trouble maintaining the topic in conversation.
• Difficulty remembering recent information.

We started off with functional activities: activities that she would do in the course of her normal day. Such as using the TV remote, maintaining a conversation, and sequencing the steps to get up from the wheelchair. I modified in various ways: simplifying, visual supports, written instructions, discussing and then doing (even down to the single step level), and modeling for imitation. I even tried spaced retrieval with errorless learning. However, I wasn’t seeing as much improvement as I’d have liked.

So we switched from these real-life activities to apps on her iPad. After trying some different things, we ended up using the iBrainH D app and Tactus Therapy’s Visual Attention and Writing apps .

We focused on learning and using strategies to slow down and improve accuracy, error detection, and error correction. For instance, I taught her to point to and/or verbalize each element, compare to the target, and double check her work.

This approach seemed to work better. When I discharge her to out-patient therapy, she had improved from a “severe” to a “mild” cognitive communication impairment per the CLQT+ . She was maintaining the topic of conversation at least 80% of the time, and she improved to only needing min assist with standing up from the wheelchair.

• demonstrate understanding of at least two cognitive strategies by independently using them during functional activities in 4 of 5 opportunities to improve participation in daily tasks by 12.31.19.
• maintain the topic of conversation for 3 turns in 4 of 5 opportunities to improve functional communication and reduce frustration by 12.31.19.
• verbalize and demonstrate the correct sequence for safely standing up from the wheelchair with 100% accuracy across three trials to improve safety by 12.31.19.

Massed practice for visual neglect

Another person I worked with had left visual neglect. His main complaint was difficulty reading because he was missing information on the left. Although he was fully aware of his deficit and with the slightest cue would correct himself, he was not consistently using the strategy independently.

Neither a bright-colored guideline or a written reminder worked for him. He continued to require a verbal cue to use the strategies to detect information on the left.

One activity that we did that was helpful was to have him page through a catalog and report what was in the top left corner on each page. After several correct answers in a row, then I would introduce a distractor question and then have him turn the page. When this was easy, I made it harder by asking him to name the third thing down on the left side of each page.

In this way, he had multiple opportunities to practice his skills in a short period of time.

Sample goal:

• locate the top left corner of reading material (e.g., paper, calendar, cell phone) using recommended strategy independently within 10 seconds in 9 of 10 opportunities across 3 sessions to improve functional reading by 12.31.19.

Remembering to use the call bell

A gentleman I’m working with in an assistive living facility has recently started wearing a bracelet with a call button. He’s supposed to use it to obtain assistance for the bathroom, but he’s been forgetting. In talking with him, I don’t get the sense that he is deliberately avoiding using it.

We’re using spaced retrieval with errorless learning to train the use of the call button.

• Prompt question: “What should you do when you need to use the bathroom?”
• Response: “Press the button and wait” and demonstrate.

We just started this past week, and I’d guess it would take another week or so to take effect (if it will help). While spaced retrieval with errorless learning doesn’t work for everyone, I’ve had many good successes with it.

• independently verbalize and demonstrate the recommendation to press the call button when he wants to use the bathroom with 100% accuracy across 3 sessions to improve safety by 12.31.19.

Using supports to be oriented to time

Sometimes, just making sure the tools are in the right place is all that is needed: clock, calendar, or a digital combination.

One recent patient had a digital calendar * that was recommended by a physical therapist, but she wasn’t using it. It was just another bit of decoration on the shelf that she wasn’t paying attention to.

I used spaced retrieval with errorless learning to train her to use it in two session (and confirmed it in each subsequent visit).

• Prompt question: “What should you do when you want to know the time or the date?”
• Response: “Look at the clock” and then read off the time and the date.

Not only was she using the digital calendar independently when I returned the following week, but she was also independently oriented to the day of the week and the month (i.e. from memory).

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• verbalize and demonstrate the independent use of the electronic calendar to determine the current day of week, date, and time with 100% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions to improve ability to participate in desired activities by 12.31.19.

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Lisa A Young M.A. CCC-SLP

Lisa earned her M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Maryland, College Park and her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego.

She participated in research studies with the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and the University of Maryland in the areas of aphasia, Parkinson’s Disease, epilepsy, and fluency disorders.

Lisa has been working as a medical speech-language pathologist since 2008. She has a strong passion for evidence-based assessment and therapy, having earned five ASHA Awards for Professional Participation in Continuing Education.

She launched EatSpeakThink.com in June 2018 to help other clinicians be more successful working in home health, as well as to provide strategies and resources to people living with problems eating, speaking, or thinking.

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Time Concepts for Speech-Language Therapy – Months, Seasons, and Holidays

I don’t know about you, but I have students that just don’t seem to “get” time concepts.  They’re the ones who ask me, “Do I see you today?” every time they see me in the hallway, or will “When will it be Halloween again?” five times in a month.

I finally decided I needed to target these skills, but how?  I tried pulling my calendar off the wall and using that for a few sessions, but I realized my students just didn’t have the foundational concepts down, and needed specific practice targeted at these skills.  So I created this :

This 50 page unit is divided into three sections, each of which build upon the previous unit.  It starts out with months, then moves to seasons, and then moves to holidays.

Each section includes: – Master reference sheet – Sorting activity (seasons and holidays only) – 24 (seasons) or 32 (months and holidays) question cards – 6 (holiday) or 8 (months and seasons) interactive book – 4 worksheets for take home practice

These activities can be used over multiple sessions and with multiple students in a session over the course of an entire year. They could be used in either individual or small group speech-language therapy sessions or in a special education classroom setting.

Tell me, do you have students that need this practice, too?

PS:  Have kids that need help with days of the week, tomorrow, yesterday, next week, etc.?  I have another product in the works for these concepts, too!  🙂

February 12, 2019 at 9:29 am

Hi! I’m not sure if my other comment went through since I never got a confirmation. I have a lot of kids who struggle with this and I am want to write IEP goals for them. Do you have any suggestions for goals? Thank you!

February 15, 2019 at 2:45 pm

Hi, Gillian! I tend to use this in conjunction with my answering “When” question goals. I have a few that only needed work on “when” and “why goals,” so I made my goals a bit more specific than I normally do – such as student will correctly answer “when” questions referring to months, “when” questions referring to seasons, “when” questions referring to holidays, etc.

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Why is Using Speech Therapy Calendar Activities in Your Daily Routine Brilliant?

• August 14, 2022

Speech therapy calendar activities are so much fun and can incorporate a wide variety of skills and goals.  There are so many ways to use speech therapy calendar themes in therapy to help our students.  From teaching calendar skills to themed therapy, to daily speech/language calendars of activities.

Speech Therapy Calendar

How many times have you tried to ask your students about the season or month you were in or the order of the months of the year, and they were unable to adequately express them?  I have so many students who are unable to differentiate between seasons/months/holidays.  

Because of this, I have compiled some activities to teach calendar skills.  I have also added and incorporated some themed and monthly calendar activities to add into your therapy rotation.  I hope this will have everything you need to start using speech therapy calendar activities right away.

SLP School Calendar

Almost every pre-k and early elementary school classroom start their day with calendar time during circle time.  But how are our students supposed to participate in these classroom activities if they do not understand different calendar parts and features?  That’s where we come in.  Calendar skills are so important for kids so that they can learn about and understand time, passing time, how to keep/read a schedule, planning ahead, planning for big events, and understanding due dates.

Calendar Concepts

The following are some of the key concepts that our students will need to understand in order to participate in calendar time:

• Days of the week
• Weekdays vs weekends (or school days vs non-school days)
• Yesterday, today, tomorrow
• Dates/numbers on a calendar
• Holidays and special events
• Daily weather and basic weather patterns

Visuals are key when teaching these concepts and visual schedules and calendars can be a huge help.  There are also lots of fun songs to help teach these concepts.

Check out this free and editable visual schedule available in my freebie library .

Day/Week/Month

When using a big monthly calendar, you can mark off the day each day to visually show the difference in time for a day, vs week, vs month.  Be sure to talk about what the little numbers on the calendar are for and what number the month could be.  Writing out the full date is a good way to show each of these.  You can also incorporate the sun and moon into these concepts.  That will give your early learners a concrete way of knowing how a long day is and day vs night.

Concepts of Time

Understanding time is a key component for later developing skills for a lot of our kiddos and should not be overlooked.  Teaching yesterday, today, and tomorrow is important for understanding past, present, and future.  These skills are needed for later developing language skills such as answering when questions and understanding the sequence of a story.

Speech Language Calendar of Activities

For my younger classes and full-time ESE classes, I like to collaborate with the teachers on what themes they are using to help carry over these concepts.  A lot of time times, at the beginning of the year, we will do a unit on the sun and moon, weather, and seasons.  Working together to make sure we are using the same vocabulary and concepts is a huge help to our kids and keeps everyone on the same page.  Working together is beneficial for everyone involved!

Speech Therapy Theme Calendar

Who doesn’t love a good them for therapy?  I like to have a general idea of what topics I am going to hit during the school year, leaving some flexibility for student interests and current topics/events.  You can fit all kinds of different activities for all varieties of goals into almost any theme.  So even working with a variety of ages (grades K – 5th for me) and individual needs, I can still stick to the same overall themes and differentiate based on abilities and needs.

I start with my four main units based on seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer.  These are my main themes and I work in holidays and other units in between them as I can.

Over in my store , I have tons of products and bundles based around each season that are little to no prep and ready to go.

Articulation:

I have a bundle of articulation worksheets for Back to School, Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer .  

Articulation activities – speech therapy bundle for all year round! Speech worksheets for every season are included in this articulation activities speech therapy bundle. Over 400 everyday speech worksheets and articulation activities to be used in therapy to elicit multiple trials or to send home for extra practice. Needing more preschool articulation activities? These speech-language worksheets include multiple targets (see below) and appropriate speech worksheets for preschoolers and speech worksheets for kindergarten.

What’s Included in each set (5 sets total):

Sounds included: CV & VC words, CVC words, multisyllabic words, /k, g/, /t, d/, /s, z/ /s/ blends, /l, r/, /l/ blends, /r/ blends, & /sh, ch, dg/

Speech worksheets pdf:

• Roll & Color pages for all sounds + 1 blank
• Stamp and Say Pages (3 styles) for all sounds + 3 blank
• Cut & Paste picture scenes (3 styles) for all sounds

Speech and Language:

For speech and language activities, all in one, check out these seasonally-themed bundles that I currently have available.

Spring Speech Language Activities Bundle

Summer Speech Language Activities Bundle

Fall & Winter Coming Soon!

Or get the whole set in the (currently growing bundle) here!

Each set contains the articulation worksheets for that season, color by codes for articulation, graphic organizers for describing and writing, and cute themed crafts.

Thematic units

Other themes that I like to use throughout the year include:

• Back to School/Get to Know You
• Farm (during the Fall season)
• Thanksgiving
• Arctic Animals
• Valentines Day
• St. Patrick’s Day
• Ocean/Beach

Speech Therapy Homework Calendar

Having some simple, go-to activity calendars for speech therapy can be a life-savor! Whether it’s to help you plan and stay on track, or to send home with your students for extra practice over the summer.  They’re a great way to stay organized!

Summer Homework Calendars for Speech Therapy

Speech therapy calendar activities for Summer homework packets .  These packets include weekly (undated) activities for articulation, language (2 levels), and fluency.  This speech-language calendar of activities is the perfect quick, ready-to-print packet for student Summer homework.

What’s Included:

• cover page – with space to write in goals and/or target sounds
• parent Letter
• 2 pages of articulation calendars
• 2 pages of early language calendars
• 2 pages of older language calendars
• 2 pages of fluency calendars
• graphic organizers for story narratives and describing
• blank writing page
• artic word lists

Tips for Use:

• Put together a packet for each of your students to send home with them over the summer.
• 1 cover page
• the parent letter
• the 2 calendar pages that best fit their goals/needs
• add any of the graphic organizers (if appropriate)
• add the appropriate word lists for artic students

Freebie Theme Calendar for Planning

Check out this free, themed planning sheet in my freebie library to plan out your therapy themes for the whole year!

For more Speech Therapy Calendar Activities and Ideas:

Nonverbal Speech Therapy Homework Activities from The Gift of Gab

Speech Therapy Planning from Busy Bee Speech

Minimize Regression- Speech Therapy Home Practice from A Perfect Blend with Amanda Newsome

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I hope you found some of these ideas helpful and can use one or more in your therapy room this year.  Please leave a comment or shoot me an email if you want to share some of your favorite speech therapy calendar activities.

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Summer Articulation and Language Calendars

• May 20, 2018

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Articulation

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I’m very excited to share my new resource, which was one of my favorite member’s requests to date…speech therapy monthly calendars!

This idea came at the perfect time as I have been reflecting, researching, and creating materials that support home practice and encourage generalization in a fun, manageable way. We want our kids to maintain progress over summer but we don’t want to cause burnout. It is a fine line!

Speech Therapy Burnout

For children in speech therapy, extended breaks can lead to regression. We don’t want that!

However, we don't want to cause burnout either! As I have been dealing with burnout in my own personal life, I see that we ALL NEED A BREAK from time to time. 

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the principles of motor learning, how to create and maintain new motor habits, burnout, the overscheduled child, etc… and how they all relate to each other. It’s quite fascinating really!

I decided, as June fast approaches, it is more important than ever to enjoy the slow pace of summer, unplug from all of our screens, connect with each other, AND have some fun, natural speech and language practice.

To accomplish this, families and students need our guidance and resources.

This summer, we DON'T WANT TO:

• Add complicated, time consuming tasks to already busy lives
• Make families feel bad for taking breaks from home practice/therapy sessions
• Add more pressure to stressed out kids

This summer, we DO WANT TO:

• Show how we can model speech and language EASILY during daily activities
• Provide practice ideas that are easy, quick, and fun
• Tailor home practice ideas to specific needs and interests of each child
• Provide parents with resources so they feel capable of continuing practice throughout the summer. 
• Set realistic goals!

Speech Therapy Homework Calendars

The request for speech therapy homework calendars came at the perfect time! What a great idea!

I had a lot of fun making these homework calendars. I completed an articulation calendar and a language calendar for both June and July in both English and Spanish. I tried my best to make the ideas quick, fun, and easy to do. I also sprinkled in days of rest and relaxation. It is summer after all!

Here's how they work:

• Variety of Activities: Each month, the calendar features a range of activities targeting either articulation or language skills. These activities may include naming a few flashcards, going on a fun scavenger hunt, playing game of charades, reading, drawing with chalk, etc….
• Progress Tracking: Clients are encouraged to track their progress by marking off completed activities on the calendar. This visual representation of progress can be highly motivating and rewarding.
• Incorporating Daily Routines: Homework calendars should integrate speech practice into daily routines. Whether it's practicing sounds while getting ready in the morning or playing word games during family game night, these activities become part of everyday life.
• Family Involvement: Homework calendars provide an opportunity to involve family members in the therapy process. Parents can support their child's speech practice at home, fostering a collaborative approach. Also, parents will learn how to easily support practice at home! 

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• English Calendars
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If you are not a member, you can always make your own calendars or join below to grab mine!

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I loved these calendars so much that I plan to release one each month for speech and language in both English and Spanish. I would love to hear what you like, don’t like, or want more of! Seriously 🙂

Summer Practice Packets

These calendars are a great addition to any summer practice home practice packet. For more tips on how to create one easily, click here.

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Speech Therapy Planning: How to Plan An Entire Year in One Sitting

August 23, 2021

When it comes to speech therapy planning, you probably fall into one of two camps.  One, you are spending hours coming up with therapy ideas and trying to keep up with meticulous planning each week.  Two, you’re like, “what planning?” and just wing it each day.

Well, friend, there is actually a middle ground.  What if I told you that you could have your entire year planned out ahead of time ?  How amazing would that feel?  

You’re probably thinking, “No way, Lauren. That would be so overwhelming and things change ALL the time.”  I promise it’s not that bad.  

We’re not planning every minute of every day.  BUT if you get a general idea of what your speech therapy planning will look like for the year, it makes it much easier to grab things and go.

Ready to learn my simple system?  Let’s do this.

Grab a good planner or calendar

It can be digital or printable, fancy or minimal.  Just make sure you have a planner with a good calendar or weekly planning sheets. 

I personally love using my SLP printable planner , then transferring a lot of it to Google calendar.

Outline your year

Start with what you know.  Write down anything you know in advance on your calendar.  Here are a few things I start with:

• School events – important days for school, vacations, testing, parent conferences, etc.
• Paperwork – IEP due dates (and dates to open the IEPs), progress report due dates, Medicaid billing dates, etc.
• Data collection – Do you have specific times when you progress monitor?  I take some data every session, but I set aside specific times a year where I focus on data: beginning of year baselines, progress report times, and end of year data.
• Personal goals – Track any CEUs, professional development, or professional growth.  Set goals for yourself this year and add them to your calendar.

Plan your therapy

Ok, so it’s pretty easy getting all the things we know down on the calendar.  But what about our actual therapy plans?  

I got you, boo.  The simplest way to get a handle on what the heck we’ll do this year is to use themes .  Themes are so helpful in planning because they give us a general framework of ideas we can pull from.

Plan by the month, then by the week .  Maybe you want to do one theme for 3 weeks.  Maybe you want to do 2 themes in one week.  The choice is yours.  Just having that general idea of what you’ll do each week takes a huge weight off.

Go through each week of your school year and jot down what theme you’ll be doing for that week on your calendar. If you need a monthly planning sheet, you can grab mine for free HERE !

Gather ideas

Think about what books or resources you’ll use for each theme and start jotting down ideas.  Y ou don’t have to have your entire unit planned for each theme at the beginning of the year.  

But if you take the time to list a few resources or ideas for each theme, you won’t be starting from scratch when that week rolls around.  For more ideas on planning themed units, check out this post .

Pinterest is another great place to find themed ideas for speech therapy planning.  Follow me for some fun seasonal ideas.

• Use resources you already have.   When you are planning your themes, think about what you have already.  What themes can you make out of those resources?  For example, do you have tons of plastic animals and books with animal characters?  Make an animal theme. 
• It’s ok to change plans.   Just because we’re planning for the year doesn’t mean we are tied to those plans.  If you want to make one theme last for 2 weeks, go for it.  If you want to add Martin Luther King activities to your winter week, do it.  So, don’t stress and agonize over your plans.
• Taking a trip to the library to grab books for a theme
• Seasonal activities or bulletin boards you want to try
• Push-in topics or ideas

Grab a free checklist!

Need a little more structure and guidance to your planning?  Download my FREE Editable Yearly Planning Checklist.  You’ll even get a glimpse of my plans for this year to get your idea juices flowing!  Hit the button below for your copy.  🙂

Happy planning!

August 25, 2021 at 6:36 am

I tried the link to the Container Store but couldn’t get it to work.

Thanks for the great planning ideas! I also enjoy doing themes. For K and 1st graders, I like to check with the teachers to see if they have themes I can try to line up with.

Have a great day!

February 2, 2023 at 7:39 am

I gained so much from this email! Thank you!!

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Jul 8, 2023

I recently talked with a graduate student about managing a large caseload while also balancing school-based responsibilities-IEP meetings, evaluations, recess duty, and more. “How do you have time to plan?” My answer? Use a speech therapy theme calendar to streamline your monthly lesson plans.

I explained that speech therapy themes use a specific topic or category to frame concepts and language. You plan books, games, crafts, and more all relating to the chosen theme. To learn more about the themed-based approach, you can read my blog post here . 

I could see her wheels turning as she took it all in and started thinking of the themes she could do in the future. I went on to explain that themes in speech therapy still involve some planning, but it saves time that we’re already so limited with. 

One way to streamline your planning time is by using themes each month. Avoid feeling overwhelmed with themes and make a speech therapy theme calendar. Here is my advice when it comes to making a speech therapy theme calendar.

Take the FREE Themed Therapy SLP Quiz

I wanted to let you know about a  free Themed Therapy SLP quiz  I created to help you get information about using a theme-based approach. Whether you are new to themes, trying to get more organized, or need fresh ideas for planning by themes, you will want to take the quiz to get an email with links to podcast episodes, blog posts, and resources to help you with your themed therapy planning.

How Many Speech Therapy Themes to Plan Per Month?

Like I said, themed therapy still requires planning but there’s a way to minimize it to help you save time and avoid burnout in the long run. 

When you’re planning speech therapy themes, it’s important to first decide how many themes you want to use each month. At first, your immediate answer might seem like 4 by using 1 theme each week. What if I told you, you could plan less themes? Listen to my podcast episode about why you should use a theme longer than a week. 

By using a theme for at least two weeks, you can plan 1-2 themes for each month! Avoid the added stress and save time and energy in implementing therapy.

Tips for Making Speech Therapy Theme Calendar

Before you start planning themes for speech therapy, I’d recommend downloading my free-themed therapy planner . It has loads of seasonal and non-seasonal theme ideas as well as worksheets to map out your plans on. 

I have a few more pointers when making your speech therapy theme calendar…

1. Map out your calendar for the year. If you’re new to themed therapy planning, aim to do one theme a month.

2. Talk with your student’s teachers about the units they cover each month. Is there a way to align your plans with the teacher’s units and classroom themes? 

• This is a great way to address functional words, vocabulary, and related concepts! 
• You can even start a theme a week before their teachers introduce it in the classroom. Pre-teach vocabulary and concepts to help build your student’s background knowledge and confidence!

3. Fill out the SLP-themed planner with books, activities, printable activities, and vocabulary that you can use with the theme. Don’t forget, you can always fill the planner out as you are doing the theme, so it is fresh in your mind. These will be cheat sheets to reference the next time you do the theme.

• Watch my Instagram reel on how to use the planner and edit it!

Example of Themed Speech Therapy Lesson Plans

4. Working with older students? Have them vote on themes they like . By having them vote, you’ll (hopefully) increase their buy-in to therapy. Students are more likely to engage in therapy if the topic is of interest and relevant to them!

5. Need some examples of what to plan? Check out some of my themed speech therapy plans… 

• My Back to School Theme includes books by grade level books, toys, picture scenes, digital activities, crafts and language based activities.
•  My Camping Theme includes books, tips for structuring lessons around books, speech therapy activities, crafts and activities for older students. 
• Get ideas for planning an ice cream theme for your preschool and elementary caseload. 

How to Pick Themes for Your Speech Therapy Caseload

There are so many different themes you can do… everything from food to sports to chores. It can be hard to narrow down which themes you want to do. There are a lot of factors that go into picking a theme for your caseload, and it might feel a little overwhelming. 

There are a few things to think about… 

• What motivates your students? 
• What’s relevant and important to them in the classroom and in the community?
• What motivates you as a therapist? You will be learning and talking a lot about these themes, so pick something you like!
• What can you adapt across age and skill levels? What can you adapt for all goals?

Need some more advice on picking a theme? Check out my 4 tips to help pick speech therapy themes. 

Have you been feeling overwhelmed with the long SLP To Do list? Try using speech therapy themes to help limit planning time and motivate your students. It might require some additional time at first, but it will save you time in the long run! Snap a picture of your theme calendar or notes and share it with me on Facebook or Instagram!

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Free Summer Speech Therapy Activity Calendar!

Some days, kids (and parents!) need a little help thinking of exercises that keep our kiddos busy this summer. Let this printable calendar be your guide to ideas and activities to improve speech and language skills. Simply print each month’s activity page and tape to your fridge!  Look closely, you and your kids may get a giggle or two with some of our suggestions!

Each day, your child can perform an exercise specifically tailored to his or her own particular speech disorder. In addition to working on specific sounds, each activity can be a helpful tool for children with the most common types of speech disorders including; articulation disorder, apraxia of speech, autism, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, Down’s syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, language disorder, speech delay or stuttering.  We have included a space at the bottom of each page to write the specific speech sound that your child is working on.  Is it R, S, T, L, CH or SH? These printable calendars are not designed to create stress or anxiety in your child, instead, just a creative way to fine-tune any speech disorders or challenges and have fun at the same time.

Here is our July calendar. You will notice that each Sunday is Fun Day!  Let us know what activity you choose for your Sunday! Perhaps we’ll add it to our activity calendars for next summer, we’re always looking for great ideas.

Speech Buddies Summer Fun Activity Calendar

This activity calendar is great for everyone in your house, not just your kids who may be working on speech habits. Perhaps you can do these activities together as a family? However you choose to tackle your daily challenge – Have fun!

FREE Ultimate SLP Planner 2024-2025 [Editable]

It’s here! For the third year in a row grab your completely free SLP planner for the 2024-2025 school year. The planner from last year is now updated with this year’s academic calendar.

Designed by an SLP for SLPs. This ultimate SLP planner comes with 61+ fillable pages in order to make it the best planner for speech therapists.

Use this speech therapy planner digitally or simply print and go.

You can also mix and match and use some pages digitally and print other pages.

In addition, this speech-language pathologist planner comes in two different options. There are both vertical and horizontal versions. Just download your preferred style!

Free SLP Planner: Vertical Version

Free SLP Planner: Horizontal Version

Download your free SLP planner today and start filling in the pages with life, class and school events using the free version of Adobe Reader . It’s that simple.

See a few examples below. All blue boxes on the school SLP planner are fillable using the free version of Adobe Reader.

Do you know anyone who would like this planner? Be sure to share it with them!

The Best Free SLP Planner Includes

This August 2024 – July 2025 school year free SLP planner comes with all of the following pages to complete your speech-language pathology lesson plan template.

Not only is this planner great for SLPs, but it’s also the best planner for graduate students. You can plan for classes and for your therapy sessions. 

If you’re a graduate student, be sure to grab this incredible free resources now!

No need to purchase an Etsy SLP planner, or one of Erin Condren planners, or the SLP happy planner, or one from Hobby Lobby, or some other teacher planner when you could get this ultimate slp planner for FREE.

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• Cover Page [Editable Name]
• School Information
• Contact Log
• Username & Passwords
• Yearly Calendar

Speech Therapy Caseload Organization

• Caseload Planner
• Monthly Paperwork Planner (August 2024-July 2025)
• Student Attendance Tracker
• Year at a Glance

The Ultimate SLP Planner Pages

• Daily Planner
• Timed Daily Planner
• Weekly Planner Blanks
• Weekly Planner Lined
• Weekly Planner No Lines Color
• Weekly Planner No Lines No Color
• Weekly Schedule (Morning, Afternoon, Evening)
• Weekly Schedule
• Timed Weekly Schedule
• Weekly Therapy Planner (By Group)
• Weekly Therapy Planner (By Skill Area)
• Weekly Timed 2 Page Spread
• Monthly Calendar Planner (August 2024-July 2025)

Speech Therapy Data Tracking

• Tracking Progress Reports
• Individual Data Tracking (6 & 8 Blanks)
• Group Blank Data Tracking (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Student Group Options)
• Group Articulation Data Tracking (2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Student Group Options)

SEE ALSO: 35 Free Speech Therapy Data Sheets Roundup

Frequently Asked Questions: Free SLP Planner

Let’s review the most frequently asked questions about this ultimate slp planner.

Who is This Planner Made for?

This planner is perfect for:

• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Special Education Teachers
• Speech Pathologist
• Classroom Teacher 
• SLP Graduate Students

Are there Monthly Calendars?

Yes! This new planner includes a monthly spread for each month from August 2024 – July 2025. 

The dates are updated as well! So, no need to write it or type it yourself.

Is this a Paper Planner?

Yes! This planner is printable or you can use it digitally with a PDF reader such as Adobe Reader or Kami (both are free).

Does the Planner use High-Quality Interior Stock Paper?

Maybe? That is completely up to you! 

This is a digital file that you can print yourself from home, work, or from a print shop. Currently, there is NO PRINTED FOR YOU OPTION . Sadness I know!

Are there Inspirational Quotes?

You bet! No planner would be complete without inspirational quotes.

Does this Planner Link to Google Calendar?

No, that would be amazing though. You can upload this digital file into your google drive though. Does that count?

Can I use this Planner in Multiple Different Speech Rooms?

Yup! Either pick it up and move it to your other speech rooms or if you’re using the digital version find your favorite computer in the room and open up the planner from there. Smart I know.

Does your Planner Include Background Images? 

No! That would just be a waste of ink. But I do have a couple of beautiful planner covers to choose from.

Are there Weekly Spreads?

Can you imagine an SLP planner without weekly planner pages? Yeah me neither that would just be crazy talk. 

I got you, there are multiple weekly spreads to choose from with this planner.

See I told you I got you. 

Are there Lesson Plans?

Now that would be one impressive planner. No, but I did include two lesson planning templates so you can do your own therapy planning.

Are there Student Data Sheets?

Yes, no planner would be complete without a way to track your student’s progress.

SEE ALSO: Top 14 Free CEUs for SLPs

Does this planner come with back covers.

Hmm, I like this idea! Let me get back to you on that one.

Is the Planner an Editable Template?

If you mean can you edit my work and possibly sell it as your own. Um no. 

But if you mean is it digitally interactive and you can type directly on the document and use it on the computer then YES! 

I’ve done the heavy lifting and added all of the digital boxes and checkboxes for you all you need to do is simply open the PDF in a PDF reader such as Adobe Reader or Kami (both are free).

Is this an Academic Planner?

You bet it is! This planner goes from August 2024 – July 2025.

Is there a Yearly Review Calendar?

Yup! There is a yearly review calendar of your student’s initial evaluations, evaluation dates, re-evaluation dates, service time, and a place for their birthdates. 

In addition, there is also a yearly calendar reference page to quickly check the date. 

I like to have the yearly calendar on the backside of the cover page for easy access and to cross out each day (as a countdown to summer or is that just me?).

Does the Planner Have a Floral Premium Matte Cover?

Now that sounds like one fancy planner. But to answer your question um maybe? It’s up to you because again you get to print your planner out however you like and on any paper you wish. 

I do have floral planner covers though! Check out the covers folder to pick out your favorite one.

Is There a Log to Keep a Parent Email Address?

Yes, I’ve included a contact log page where you can input the student names and their parent or guardian information as well as track each time you reach out and contact them so you have a record.

Is this Planner a Good Fit for Recent Graduates?

Yes, this planner is perfect for a recent graduate! 

It helps you keep track of your caseload, paperwork, and daily tasks all in one place.

Is this an 8×10 Planner?

You bet! It was made for a typical piece of US paper.

Can I Save this Planner in Google Drive?

You sure can! After you enter your email address you will be sent a link in an email to access the planner and it will be directly from my google drive. 

Simply make a copy and save it to your personal google drive. It’s that simple. 

Does the Planner Come with a Pretty Cover Page? 

Yes, the pretty cover page is the best part! This planner comes with 4 SLP Planner covers and 4 teacher planner covers. 

They both come in horizontal and vertical versions as well.

SEE ALSO: Speech Therapy Room Decor

Are there beginning of the year pages.

Yes, I got you! There are the following:

Are there Caseload Management Sheets?

Oh yes! The following pages will help with your caseload management.

• Year at a Glance (iep meetings, eval dates, initial eval dates, re-eval dates) 

Would this Free SLP Planner Work for Private Practice?

Yes, there would only be a handful of pages that you might not use, but the majority will come in handy. Simply pick and choose which pages to use.

Can I track Important Dates, such as IEP Meetings or Student Information?

Of course! There is a year at a glance sheet that allows you to put your student names plus there are places to track IEP meetings, initial evaluations, or re-evaluation dates so you can stay on top of all your meetings until the end of the year.

Can SLP Assistants use this Planner?

Yes, of course! 

Is there a Place to Track Progress Report Logs?

I got you! There is a progress report tracking log to keep all your progress notes in one place.  

Is there a Place to Create a Therapy Schedule? 

Oh yeah! There are two because two is better than one. 

Are there two-page layouts?

Yes, there is one two-paged layout for the weekly timed page.

Is there a Place to Track Student Birthdays?

Yup! The year at a glance page has a place to write down the student’s birthday. 

You can also find my beautiful student birthday tracker in my tpt store .

In Conclusion: Free SLP Planner

I hope you love this planner as much as I do. Now it’s time to spend less time searching for a planner and start using your new planner today. 

Wishing you happy planning days ahead!

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Download and get started planning today using your speech therapy treatment planner. Happy planning!

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Monday 25th of July 2022

Hi, when I go to print the Printable BW version the images come out fuzzy and not at all clear. When I print the colored one, its crystal clear. Can I get help with the BW version? Thanks!

Melissa Berg

Tuesday 26th of July 2022

Hi Hailey, Thanks so much for reaching out! I tried printing the BW and it is very slightly fuzzy on my end. I'm wondering if you try taking the color version and simply printing that one in BW instead. All my best, Melissa

Tuesday 12th of July 2022

How do we download the zip file? I don't see a link anywhere.

Hi Jenny, At the bottom of this post, there is a form to put your name and email address to have the free planner emailed to you in a zip file. If you don't see the email you might want to check your spam or junk folders. All my best, Melissa

Monday 11th of July 2022

It didn't give me the option to make a copy when I downloaded. Any suggestions?

Hi Apryl, If you click on the folder you can download the folder and have your own copy. Or you can select individual pages that you want and you can select make a copy. All my best, Melissa

Tuesday 31st of May 2022

This is perfect, exactly what I need!

Wednesday 1st of June 2022

Hi Kathy! I'm happy to know this is perfect and just what you needed! It makes me happy to know I'm helping others. :) All my best, Melissa

Friday 27th of May 2022

This is exactly what I need and I am so glad you shared this!

Hi Leigh! Wonderful I'm so happy to hear this is exactly what you needed! All my best, Melissa

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Jewish Calendar 2020 Elektrostal’, Moscow Oblast, Russia

• Monthly calendar
• Candle-lighting times only

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