The biggest reason (and the most important reason) is to share my ideas and activities with other SLPs so that they can enrich their lessons with their students. My favorite posts are posts that share ideas and have free downloads. I will never charge money for activities that I post. My free downloads are more of a "thank you" for reading my blog.
HelpKidzLearn is a collection of free software for young children and those with learning difficulties to play online. The software is split into five sections:
* Early Years
* Games and Quizzes
* Stories and Songs
* Creative Play
* Find Out About
You will get the most out of these activities if you play them together with your child. Use them as a focus for chatting. Speaking and listening is very important for young children's educational development, particularly reading and writing.
HelpKidzLearn has been created by Inclusive Technology Ltd., a commercial organisation providing assistive technology and educational software. Many of the activities at HelpKidzLearn are free samples taken from our own software titles
Thousands of Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources for Teachers
Thinkfinity has 11 content partners, including several leading education and literacy organizations. It offers thousands of free K-12 educational resources in seven disciplines. A search function allows users to enter a keyword and refine the search according to resource type, grade level, and subjects to find activities for the classroom or at home. Entering the keyword "grammar," for example, uncovers nearly 100 treasures, including lesson plans with embedded online activities.
Adapro is a customisable multi-user word processor originally geared towards users with a learning disability or developmental disorder, such as dyslexia or autism. Free.
Rover is a free education app and the only education browser for your iPad designed for teachers and students of all ages.
Rover is targeted towards enhancing the K-12 education experience, bringing the best online learning content to your iPad- including access to content ordinarily available on the Apple tablet (e.g. Flash content).
" I am a speech language pathologist working with preschool and elementary students.I sign my IEP's as Jenna Rayburn M.A., CCC-SLP. I'm a graduate of The Ohio State University and Ohio University. My speech room is chronically messy. I love doing fun activities in the speech room and hate doing the same old activities. Feel free to use the freebies on this blog. Send me your ideas so I can share them with others!"
This Jeopardy Game was created in PowerPoint by Judy Kuster. You are free to download it and use it as is or help your clients develop their own sets of answers and questions.
Bookshare's goal is to make the world of print accessible to people with disabilities. Bookshare offers more than 50,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools. Bookshare is free for all U.S. students with a qualifying disability
LibriVox: free audiobooks. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Contains a wide array of clipart pictures, photographs, and animated images that can be downloaded and used in a classroom setting for achieving learning objectives.
Free online worksheets to help teachers to measure and build reading comprehension of children. Students read the article or story and answer the questions