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The below information is a guest repost from the blog: "Let's Talk Speech and Language", I want to thank Ms. Sohan for providing "creative and affordable therapy tools" on her blog. Stay up to date on information by following Ms. Sohan on Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter.  Following Directions With Origami {Review} The free ‘How to Make Origami’ app is a fun, simple tool to utilize with students who are bored with worksheets. This app will walk you and your students through the steps of how to make over 70 popular origami figures (crane, rabbit, giraffe, goldfish, tulip, etc) while using 3D animation of the folding process. Steps range from a simple 6 step walk-through on how to make a boat all the way up to the 78 step ‘how-to’ on creating a spider! Users can easily go forward/backward through the steps as well as replay the animation. Each figure is rated for difficulty from easy to middle to hard. Directions for images rated easy and middle are provided for each step. For the images rated hard, no written directives are provided. This can be turned into a great pragmatic language lesson wherein a student can take the lead and instruct others on the next step, engaging in a back and forth dialogue. Students have the opportunity to ask for clarification, repetition, or assistance; necessary social skills a lot of my students do not possess. Additional IEP goals related to following directions, auditory memory, sequencing, sentence formulation, can also be targeted. For additional reinforcement related to the skills targeted, graphic organizer can be used to recall and organize steps used to create the origami image. Further working on receptive and expressive language. Below are a few screen shots of one my favorite figures from this app.... a pig! 
Each image is presented on the screen prior to steps being introduced.
Each step is animated and accompanied with written directives at the bottom of the screen (for easy and middle images only).
All steps can easily be replayed. Users can go forward or back through steps.
App Compatibility: The ‘How to make Origami’ App is available on all Apple products (iPhone and iPad) as well as all Android products (phone and tablet). I have the app on both my Android phone and iPad. In the therapy room setting I prefer using the iPad where it’s large screen is a perfect size for my small group sessions. Have fun folding! ___________________________________________________________________________  Author Bio: Ms.Sohan is a Middle School Speech-Language Pathologist from New York. She is the author of the blog Let’s Talk Speech and Language where she posts about behavior management, free apps, therapy techniques, and more.
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 Tara West is the creator of the blog “Little Minds at Work: A Kindergarten Kind of World.” You can tell just how creative and enthusiastic she is about teaching Kindergarten through all of the wonderful posts on her blog. I am sure her students enjoy being in her classroom.
Below are some of my favorite posts from Tara’s blog: Word Wall Display Dollar Store Finds Different dollar store deals and how the items were incorporated into activities. Invitations {freebie} and Spring Begins Cute Activity to use for Spring, but also invitations can be modified for other seasons. Whole Brain Teaching {Super Improvers Wall} Ideas for Behavior Management Follow Tara on Pinterest and be sure to Subscribe to her Blog to get the latest posts. Special Thanks to Tara for all of the creative posts and activities that she shares on her blog.  Kristin Cummings, M.S., CCC-SLP is the founder of the blog Simply Speech (http://kcummingsslp.blogspot.com). Her blog has a lot of creative speech therapy resources and ideas. Below is a list of some of the posts from Kristin's blog.
Decorating your Speech Room:Provides pictures of how she decorated and organized her speech room. FREEBIES: Fun Therapy Games and Printables Speech-A-Gories: Activities for students to practice speech sounds. I Have Who Has : A game to allow students to learn the names of school supplies. Lemonade, Anyone: Targeting Present vs. Past Tense Quick and Easy Therapy Games How Do you Keep Student Data?: A great post about keeping data and visuals of how Kristin keeps data. Classroom Management: I enjoyed reading this post regarding managing behaviors in the classroom. Kristin provides some great strategies and visuals to implement into therapy sessions. One of my favorite posts is related to The Story Grammar Marker, which is entitled Here's The Story, of a Man Named Braidy" Be sure to check out Kristin's blog for other creative therapy activities and ideas. Follow her on Pinterest and like Simply Speech on Facebook.  Lisa M. Geary is a Speech Language Pathologist and the founder of LiveSpeakLove.com and she has a wonderful Speech Language blog that is connected to her website. We also want to take the time to congratulate Lisa on her new position as the Clinical Assistant Professor at Towson University in their department of Audiology, Speech Language Pathology and Deaf Studies. Some of my favorite posts from the LiveSpeakLove blog are: Top Five Ways to Encourage Spontaneous Language Summer Speech Language Activities Communication Temptations Top 10 Must Dos for SLPs Visual Supports for Behavior Making the Most of Summer Fun Language Based Activities for Children and Their Families All of the handouts below are concise and provide valuable information. Click here for some of the handouts that Lisa created for Better Hearing and Speech Month are as follows:
The LiveSpeakLove Speech-Language Blog offers a wealth of resources, so be sure to stop by and visit! 
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