A little something from the speech room

We started a "100 Day contest" a few years ago and found that the some of our students love it. Basically it is an extra contest that my student's can decide to participate in.  It is only for artic kiddos and it basically is a challenge to see if they can practice 2-3 minutes a day for 100 consecutive days.  There is no pressure to participate and when they complete the challenge they receive a prize from the 100 day prize box... which has "higher" quality prizes.  For those competitive kiddos this has been a great incentive and has helped some of my students exit from artic therapy pretty quickly!  Hurray!

There is a chart in the speech room where they track their progress along and this is an additional incentive for the 100 day participants.  They don't want to fall behind.  Oh I forgot to mention the one big rule that was hard to enforce at first....... if you miss a day of practice (with the exception of illness) they have to start all over.  They never complain since I explain this rule from the very beginning.  They just jump right back in.  What a great way to develop perseverance!

All of my students obviously have a chance to win points for a speech prize by doing their assigned homework, trying their best in speech, using good listening skills, and bringing their speech book with them to the session.  This is just an added incentive that seems to push some kids to increase the frequency of their practice.

This is the back of the speech room door.