Life Skills Dress the Weather Functional Speech Therapy

by Stacy Crouse

Price: 400 points or $4 USD

Subjects: speech,adultSpeech,expressiveLanguage

Grades: 9,10,11,12

Description: This BOOM CARDS™ deck is a functional activity to help your older students work on increasing independence of life skills. Using REAL-LIFE situations with mature images, you can target the daily living skill of choosing appropriate clothing with your speech therapy and special education students. Each of the 35 cards in the deck presents a specific and relatable scenario (such as an event, occasion, or weather condition). Students then use CRITICAL THINKING skills to determine which 3 of the 6 presented images represent something that would be suitable to wear. This activity gives you an easy way to... ✅ Target language functionally using realistic situations ✅ Work on increasing your students' independence ✅ Teach students the vocabulary of clothing, weather, and events ✅ Provide easy-to-understand homework for students In speech therapy, this activity will provide you with real scenarios for targeting goals such as making inferences and predictions and answering why questions. For example, a card asking what to wear for a hike in the mountains allows your students to select clothes based on what they think will happen and why certain clothes would or wouldn't be good options. If teaching life skills, students can work on choosing safe and appropriate clothing for everyday situations and special occasions. For example, a card asking what to wear for a trip to the beach helps students identify clothes that will keep them cool enough for a day in the sun.