92: SLPs Love Game with Maria Kotsonis

Are your speech therapy sessions fun?

Today on SLP Coffee Talk, we are talking all about having fun with your students by playing games in speech!

Speech therapy can be challenging for students and making games out of your lessons can be a great way to boost their morale and increase engagement.

I sat down with Maria Kotsonis to chat about creative ways to make your therapy sessions fun and something that your students will look forward to.

Maria Kotsonis has been a speech-language pathologist for over 8 years. She graduated with her Bachelor's and Master's degree from St. John's University. Maria is a proud NYC Department of Education Employee.

She is also the co-host of the podcast SLPs Wine and Cheese. Maria is certified in PROMPT and uses it to drive her assessment and treatment. Maria has also worked as an adjunct professor at St. John's University and has been a speaker at conventions and professional developments.

In This Episode You’ll Discover:

Ways to make speech fun
Games you can play in your classroom
How to handle students who don’t do well with games
Tips for implementing games
The best games for articulation, sentence structure, and more
The best places to buy games for your classroom
Maintaining behavior management while playing games

We all know that speech can be challenging for students, and it can be especially difficult if they feel they aren’t making progress on their goals.

Games are a great way to increase both educational outcomes and morale!

Maria has so many tips on how to play games in speech therapy in a fun and educational way. I hope you get a lot of ideas and inspiration from listening to this episode with Maria and me.

Don’t forget that you can grab my Things We Do Not Say In Speech Signs freebie in my TpT store!

Joke of the Week:

Q: How do trees get on the internet?

A: They log on.

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