Resources for Mixed Groups

Ugh…the dreaded MIXED GROUPS.

It’s the group of students that probably got scheduled last or the ones that came from the difficult-to-work-with teachers (you all know what I mean) and so you end up having students with articulation goals and language/fluency/social goals all in one big group. We’ve all been there and planning for therapy for these types of groups is. not. fun.

Thankfully, there are now a lot of resources out there geared for these specific groups, which make our lives that much easier. I’ve asked a few friends for their favorite therapy activities specifically geared to mixed-goal groups and here’s what we came up with:

1. Articulation Context Clue Cards Using Tier 2 Vocabulary Easy to whip out and target both articulation AND vocabulary within the same group
2. Roll and Tell an Articulation Story. This is a great activity for students to get creative telling stories AND work on those articulation skills. 
3. Nonfiction Texts Targeting Articulation and Language. These seasonal nonfiction texts get a lot of bang for the money. 
4. Articulation Interviews for Speech Therapy. I love that kids can pretend interview while working on both language and articulation goals! 
5. Print and Go Trioramas for Articulation, Language and Social Skills. This resource has it all, even incorporating social skills for your students with pragmatic goals. Best of all-it’s easy print and go. 
6. Print and Go Sound-a-gories. I love it when one game can be used multiple ways to target various goals. 
7. Language Blocks: A Speech Therapy Un-Stacking Game. Who doesn’t love Jenga? And this resource makes it easy to address language, grammar and social skills. 
8. Candy Town Bundle. It makes me happy that I can get out one game and play with virtually every single student on my caseload. 
9. One-Item Therapy Resources. All of my 1-item therapy resources target goals in the areas of articulation, language, social and grammar using just one item, including my newest one, using only apples.
10. Yoga Activities for Speech and Language. How fun is this activity to incorporate yoga into your groups while also working on a variety of skills. Even the physical therapist will be impressed! 
11. Flower Garden Speech and Language Sensory Bin. I sure hope The Dabbling Speechie makes more of these because students love “playing” while they are learning! 
12. Photo of the Week. I love these real-life photographs for eliciting virtually every goal out there! 
13. Open Ended Seasonal Tile Game. Open-ended games are PERFECT for mixed groups! 
14. Speech and Language Origami. How fun is this that every student at your table can make their own origami and be practicing a skill?! 
15. Analogies and Articulation. Analogies can be such a difficult concept for our students and I love that I can mix in some articulation practice as well! 
16. Picture Sequencing Cards for Functional Life Skills. I love that these cards address so many skills AND they are functional which make them especially appealing for some of our students! 
17. Print and Go Speech Seeks and Language Looks Bundle. I pretty much love anything like I Spy and know my students do to. 
18. Dice and Dot for Speech and Language. This resource addresses SO. MANY. SKILLS. and it’s no prep! 
19. Llama, Llama and The Bully Goat Book Companion. I love that this companion addresses language AND pragmatic goals in one. 
20. Fall 3D Speech Therapy Crafts. These are adorable, perfect for fall, and perfect for my mixed groups. 
21. No Prep Speech and Language Scenes. Great for incorporating following directions WHILE you work on various language goals! 
22. Bundled Acorns. Here are some more adorable crafts you can use with a lot of students with various goals!
23. Articu-Lang: Prevocalic R. These activities are perfect for students who struggle with that pesky /r/ AND need a boost in language as well! 
24. Story Cube Activities for Speech and Language. 

This list should put your mind at ease when that schedule you worked so hard on is not ideal and you’re left with a lot of mixed groups. If you have any other ideas, I’d love to hear them below!