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West View - Speech and Language Therapy for Mr. Bowman's students at West View

Hello! This is the website for speech/language therapy at West View. I also work with speech and language students at DBHS and BCE. I have some activities listed below that you can practice at home. If you need anything, have a question, or would like some speech/language advice, please contact me. My email address is: bowmanj3@wcde.org Or call West View Elementary School and ask for me at 423-753-1175.

About me: I am originally from south Georgia, where I graduated from Valdosta State University with my Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. I have been awarded the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

Please remember to be practicing your speech sounds at home. One of the biggest speech improvements you can make is to begin using your sounds when you're talking to others outside of the speech therapy room. The internet is full of fun activities, videos, and apps to practice speech sounds and language skills. I have a lot more things available by request that I can send to you.

Suggestions for speech sound practice at home:

  • Mommy Speech Therapy has lots of worksheets for each sound, and lots of links and suggestions for even more activities
  • Home Speech Home has word lists for every sound in every position of a word (beginning, middle, or end of a word). Just practicing your sound in words, or practicing using that word in a sentence is great
  • Record yourself saying words from a word list that have your sound and play it back, decide if you said it correctly and/or get feedback (just a yes or no) from someone else
  • Just saying words with your sound. Don't overdo it! Try 5 times per word, and work at it for a couple of minutes. If you can say words with the correct sounds, but you struggle when you use the word in a sentence, then practice sentences
  • I have worksheets, coloring sheets, and word lists for each sound, just email me and I can send it your way however you'd like

Suggestions for language practice at home:

  • Play 20 questions or I Spy. It's simple and free. If this is too difficult, narrow it down to a category like "food" or even just "fruit" and ask yes/no questions to guess the object
  • Games like Guess Who, Hedbanz, or Scattergories can be great language practice. If a student is struggling coming up with good questions, team up with an adult and talk it through, then let the student ask the question once the team has decided what to say
  • Another fun and free option: Get a basket full of objects and hide behind something like a couch, or hang up a sheet, or build a pillow fort. Choose one object and take turns describing it and answering questions until the person who can't see it guesses which object you've picked. Set a timer on your phone to keep the game moving if you want
  • Card games like Go Fish and Memory can be good for practicing asking questions, making requests, matching, naming, and practicing turn-taking
  • For younger children, read a children's book together (or read it to them), talk about it, ask questions about what happened, or try to guess what will happen next.

Below is a COVID-19 teaching story created by the University of Miami. It is a helpful social narrative video to help individuals with autism understand the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Sourced here from Autism Speaks. This site has social stories, information, and activities for children with autism.

Click here for a link to a Google Drive from another speech therapist. It is FULL of videos and activities for speech and language. If clicking doesn't work, copy and paste the link below: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hav7a2xf8nUpxCLtz9pEIpKqSfEWbwHh

Here are several speech sound tutorial videos:

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Jeremy Bowman
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