Session Plan Classroom Based Language Therapy - Animals

Session Plan Classroom Based Language Therapy - Animals

This is an example of a lesson plan for a classroom based language therapy session focusing on 'animals' written by Kate Meredith (Speech Pathologist) targeting a group of students working to build many aspects of their language, including;

  • book orientation and awareness

  • answering questions

  • following instructions

  • sequencing

  • understanding and use of position concepts

  • expressive vocabulary

  • descriptive concepts

  • vocabulary - Loud/ quiet

  • requesting and

  • choicemaking. 

The lesson plan includes resources including;

  • topic boards

  • concept cards

  • Picture Communication Symbol (PCS) stimulus

  • requesting strip

  • animal cards

  • visual instruction sheets and

  • a list of other tools needed.

Planning and implementing lessons with a particular subject focus is a great way to build students' language skills whilst learning and interacting with subject content. Teachers can incoporate subjects being taught in units of work and topics of interest.