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Prepara on for Each Lesson Plan

1. Decide when to work with the students and whether the students will be seen in
groups or individually.

Throughout the academic day teachers and speech-language pathologists can provide their

students with many opportuni es to communicate. For support personnel, such as speech-
language pathologists, geAng to know when the teacher and student have difficulty
communica ng can create a great opportunity to get buy-in. For example, if ea ng me is
difficult, we can help the student to make choices. This leads to mastering communica on goals
and reducing the level of frustra on in the classroom. Addi onally, knowing a teacher’s schedule
allows us greater opportuni es to have them par cipate in group ac vi es that we have designed

for their students. It can also provide an opportunity for assistance with individual goals that they
would like their students to achieve.

2. IdenFfy the current curriculum-based theme

By aligning our interven on and ac vi es with the general educa on curriculum we can increase
student communica on, support the efforts of other professionals who work with these students,
and reduce planning me.

Students progress when they have mul ple opportuni es to prac ce communica ng about a

single topic. When academic content and speech therapy are aligned, the student is using the
same vocabulary and gramma cal structures over and over. When the parents receive homework
or informa on on the theme, this offers another opportunity to prac ce.

General educa on themes oTen come with materials and manipula ves that are related to the
topic. By choosing the same theme, we reduce our planning me because the teacher may
already have ac vi es that we can support, may have manipula ves and objects that relate to the
theme, and may have modifica ons such as augmenta ve communica on set up in advance.

3. IdenFfy goals and modify acFviFes

Our students oTen have mul ple disabili es and use communica on devices or signing as a form

of communica on. By crea ng a modifica ons page we can easily physically modify materials to
allow students with physical and behavioral challenges to par cipate linguis cally. These
modified materials target various levels of nonverbal to verbal communica on. Each lesson
contains modifica on sugges ons related to the theme, and the following page shows how to
modify your own materials.

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