It’s Week 8 of YouTube Treasures for speech therapy!
I hope you’ve enjoyed this 8-week series of YouTube videos, with person-centered treatment ideas for speech therapy. The best thing about using relevant, interesting material in speech therapy is that it gets people talking in therapy, which makes it easy to apply skills and strategies to their everyday lives! Today’s sweet video is no exception. If you’re new to YouTube or want some new ideas for how to use these videos in therapy, read on!
Have you ever used a YouTube video during your speech therapy session, or as a home program assignment? Here are a few reasons why I like using YouTube videos as a therapy tool:
*They are interesting and relevant, which promotes therapy engagement. This also means the language practiced will be language needed for real life!
*They give information in real-life speed (they aren’t over-simplified). This means that skills or strategies practiced with a YouTube video could likely be used in real life as well.
*You can adjust the complexity by choosing different lengths of information.
* Best of all, there are a million (plus!) topic options, so it’s easy to use something personally-relevant for the unique communication needs of a patient.
YouTube Treasure: The Gift of Giving
This YouTube is a perfect feel-good video that should make anyone smile! It’s under 4 minutes long, but will get people talking! It’s a real-life topic and delivered in real-life speed; see below for therapy ideas.
Then, don’t forget to apply this therapy practice to real life! This can be done for any modality area. For example, ff you were working on comprehension: What helped for this video? How can you practice this in your real life? If you were working on writing, how can you practice this skill again this week? What strategies will you keep in mind?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5T8QwIyDkE?ecver=1&w=560&h=315]
Video Length: 3:37
Therapy Ideas: If you like these ideas, be sure to check out the Home Sweet Home Series and my Shop. Here are some ways you may be able to incorporate a personally-relevant YouTube Video into speech therapy:
| To Target Strategies or Skills in This Area: | The Patient Could Do This: |
| Verbal Expression | *Use word-finding strategies to list 5+ gifts that were given
*Use Response Elaboration Training to explain what the video was about. *Tell a story about a favorite time you gave or received a gift |
| Written Expression | *Write clear, organized steps explaining what the store organized in this video
*Write an opinion paragraph persuading someone whether giving or receiving is better, and why. |
| Auditory Comprehension | *Demonstrate comprehension across 4-minute in-context listening tasks, with 90% acc for open-ended questions.
*Practice using strategies such as note-taking to enhance comprehension. |
| Reading Comprehension | (Nope). |
| Motor Speech | *Challenge ability to carry-over motor speech strategy or skill while giving directions to a known or unknown listener. |
| Attention | *Sustain attention for listening tasks of *** minutes.
*Alternate / divide attention for a motor task (such as sorting) while also listening to new information, with 90% acc on each task. |
| Memory | *Short-term recall for +5/5 pieces of info after a 10-minute delay.
*Short-term recall: Explain what the video was about after a 2-day delay. *Prospective memory: Decide how you will “give” a gift (either time, talent, or money), do this, and report back to SLP. |
| Thought Organization | *Organize information using bullet points and sentences. |
| Problem-Solving / Reasoning | *What are some gift-giving ideas you can think of, that cost $5 or less for someone in your life?
*What would you do if someone approached you in a store and said you could pick out any gift? *Use Goal-Plan-Do-Review framework to plan for a gift you need to get. |
| Executive Function | *Evaluate strategy success during task or plan how to adapt strategies for new situation. |
| Pragmatics | *What were some of the emotions on the video? Why did people have those emotions? |
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