SpeechTechie- Technology, Apps and Lessons for SLPs and Teachers who like Words

Suno AI is a fun tool which will generate a song for you if you provide a simple prompt, such as a genre and topic. Sign in with your Google account and you can create a number of songs for free...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2024/04/create-songs-on-topic.html

Last month, ASHA Leader featured a helpful article, Using ChatGPT to Create Treatment Materials (Price, Lubniewski, Du)  providing great examples of prompts to ChatGPT for creation of sound-load...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2024/04/tailoring-and-modifying-chatgpt-results.html

Working with teens and young adults and interested in showing them how to use an AI tool that helps them be more independent? As this free (and committed to remaining free) site proclaims, "gobli...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2024/03/goblin-tools.html

Within sessions I strive to achieve what we might call MEDIA BALANCE, using a variety of materials including hands-on, paper, and digital. If I feel the plan involves too much tech, I try to adju...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2024/01/whats-hoopla.html

During this time of year, we often do the obligatory lessons about gratitude that go well with the thanksgiving holiday. From a language perspective, practicing gratitude involves reflecting, lis...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/11/gratitools-and-say-hi-if-you-see-me-at.html

 ...is something my husband or I says to the other at some point every day since the spring. At that time, the New York Times added a daily puzzle that I thought was uniquely designed for SLPs a...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/11/have-you-done-connections.html

I have posted here recently on the therapeutic uses of Generative AI for language activities, and have recently been impressed by the results of using it to obtain modifiable content useful in se...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/09/using-chatgpt-for-lesson-planning-ideas.html

This summer I became addicted to the New York Times' new Connections puzzle . I enjoyed each morning tackling this often-tricky categorization activity and comparing results (or sometimes providi...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/08/finding-categories-everywhere.html

Proceeding from some ideas about the role of music in speech-language therapy (and social coaching), back in the spring I did some activities with MusicLM . This tool is available from Google's A...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/08/music-lm.html

The title of this post is both an encouragement and some specific features I wanted to let you know about! You first of all probably know singing is a hobby for me and a self-regulation strate...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/08/sing.html

Over the spring semester, in several of my social learning groups, we were experimenting with games that allowed for association, storytelling and humor (essentially the same skills used in impro...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/07/gartic-phone.html

I am just wrapping up another semester supervising graduate students at BU's Academic Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic. In gaining baseline and post-treatment data, I am always steering them t...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/05/high-quality-digital-resources-for.html

Any tech resource that is simple, reliable, with content worth more than one visit, and that will tie in with instructional strategies is one to save on your list. Such a thing is the New York Ti...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/04/whats-going-on-in-this-picture.html

I have been doing clinical supervision at BU for a few semesters now. It's such a rewarding experience to work with the graduate students in their first clinical in-house experiences. I have a st...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/04/a-quick-activity-with-chat-gpt.html

Having been certified in Visualizing and Verbalizing® years ago, I've always found it an essential tool in my toolkit. Scaffolding students toward creating a mental image gestalt, guided by a sc...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/03/dall-e-ai-image-creation-tool.html

You probably have heard of ChatGPT , a free Artificial Intelligence chatbot that you can ask for all sorts of information. Yes, we have concerns about it being misused in academia, and I know it...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/02/chatgpt-maybe-series.html

Music is motivating, self-regulating and full of language. Recently I have used songs with individuals and groups in a couple of specific ways. For an individual client I see, I have been worki...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/01/more-on-using-music-in-therapy.html

I can't say enough about the app Breathwrk and what it has done for me, and taught me personally. I've mentioned I struggle here and there with SAD and some other layers. Whether thought- or exp...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2023/01/revisiting-breathwork-with-breathwrk.html

Check out Hume AI's website for a number of maps of various types of nonverbals that may be useful to you in therapy activities, particularly with teens, young adults or adults. I say that becaus...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2022/12/exploring-emotional-vocabulary.html

Museums appealing to children are often a great source of interactive websites. I liked this website years ago (see the blast from the past ) and the now Plimoth-Pawtuxet Museum has redesigned it...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2022/11/you-are-historian-first-thanksgiving.html

Book Creator has long been a stellar app /webtool and recently I discovered that they have templates to "remix." You can add templates to your app and do a collaborative work on your iPad among...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2022/11/book-creator-templates-including.html

Hi everyone! In July I was honored to present at the SLP Summit. I’ve expanded on that content and have a new 1.5 hr on-demand course available for you to earn more CEUs! We know one hour isn�...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2022/11/new-course-available.html

Looking for an engaging activity this Monday? Check out this fun one from Control-Alt-Achieve  (also a great resource in general). In this you use Google Docs as a visual creator to make a Hallo...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2022/10/monday-halloween.html

Try this Google Earth "quiz" on animal sounds  from NPR's Science Friday to engage your students! I have mentioned before and on the Talking with Tech podcast that quiz-like activities can be a ...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2022/10/engaging-animal-sounds.html

Back in May, I had the wonderful fortune of recording with Chris Bugaj and Rachel Madel for their terrific podcast, Talking with Tech. They split the conversation over two episodes which came out...

https://www.speechtechie.com/2022/09/talking-with-tech-podcast-appearances.html