The Grand Tour...

As a SLP in the school setting, you never know where your space will be! Although, yes, I still am a little envious of SLPs with full sized classrooms (or even partial classrooms...and MOST DEFINITELY a WINDOW!), I have learned to improvise. Yes.. I am in a book room...which means I share half of my million shelved walls with other teachers! (They are so kind to gather all of there supplies before or after school hours so they don't interrupt therapy!)

Let's take a walk through Mrs. Powell's Speech Room... Welcome!!

Open the door.... And this is what you find- a small closet with tons of shelves!! I am waiting on someone to paint me a gorgeous ocean scene to put behind my curtains! (Any takers!?)

I worried a lot at first about all of the "visual noise" that comes along with having all of these shelves! I tried covering them with curtains, but there was not a great practical way to cover that many shelves without a large budget! The teachers were also concerned about having to constantly search for things behind curtains. So... open shelves it it!

I add chairs for my larger groups, but I try to keep it as basic as possible for the most part!

What have I discovered? It doesn't effect MOST of my kids! The colorful table usually keeps most of my students focused at me and whatever we have going on that day! For the kids that have a hard time focusing... We often take "field trips" to different places in the school to have therapy so things will always be lively! Outside, the cafeteria, the library, and occasionally, the floor in my room have turned out to be perfect for therapy for my wandering minds!

I have divided my shelves: homework shelf, articulation games, phonological processes, oral motor, fluency, literacy, etc. You can't see all my shelves in the pictures (I know some of you are jealous of my abundance of storage!), but you get the point!

I hope you enjoyed the tour!