Versatility and Adaptability: The resource offers a range of activities suitable for different learning styles, abilities, and levels of language proficiency. SLPs can easily adapt and modify the materials to meet the unique needs of their students, ensuring personalized and effective therapy sessions. Short Stories– Using short stories that are seasonal can be a fun way to target a variety of skills at once! The ones linked include options with and without visual supports! Target Functional Skills: This unit focuses on an essential aspect of daily life—money and financial literacy. It provides activities and materials designed to enhance students’ understanding of money management, budgeting, financial terms, and more. These skills are crucial for their future independence and success.

Lexie completed her nurse training in North London at the Royal Free Hospital and qualified with BSc Nursing. She has worked in Accident & Emergency and completed the additional Emergency Care qualification. In addition to nursing, she also trained and qualified as a Midwife with a BSc In Midwifery. Lexie worked as a Nurse and Midwife in London in both the NHS and private sector at the Royal Free, Chelsea and Westminster, Charing Cross at St Mary’s Hospitals. Functional speech therapy activities are a powerful tool for enhancing communication skills in high school students with disabilities. By targeting practical, real-life tasks, these activities enable students to develop vital skills necessary for independent living, academic success, and social interaction. More than anything, we want our students to be successful adults. We know that they won’t be in the school setting forever! The “Functional Speech and Language Unit – Money & Financial Literacy” resource offers SLPs a valuable asset. It provides comprehensive activities that align with the needs and goals of your students. I hope adding it to your money management and financial literacy repertoire is helpful! Thank you for reading It’s that time of year again, when we refresh the contents of the magazine and welcome a new clutch of columnists to take up residence. So please welcome Sophie Herxheimer, queen of collage and creativity, who starts her Playing with Poetry series in Issue 99; and Kate Mascarenhas, who’ll be applying social psychological research to fictional character formation. Inspiration will be a major theme of the next four issues – so we’re leading with the doyenne of the creative writing business, Celia Brayfield, with her no-nonsense guide to choosing a course; while Louise Doughty offers a very personal answer to the question, ‘Where do ideas come from?’. Intentional Approach: I developed this after working in secondary settings for 5 years. My goal was to incorporate strategies to promote language development, communication skills, and overall functional abilities in the context of meaningful lessons.If you’re looking for other little to no prep high school activities, here are some of my other favorites! Thank you for working so hard to use materials that are age appropriate and meaningful for your students! By embracing functional speech therapy activities, we can empower students with disabilities to thrive and reach their full communication potential. Enjoy using the functional money unit with your students! Please let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see added to it!

In recent years Lexie has specialised and focused on menopause care and building on her passion for women’s health, empowerment and advocacy. She has undertaken extensive British Menopause Society training courses, international menopause training, ongoing professional development and is a Newson Menopause Society Associate. Lexie has extensive knowledge of the NHS and the private sector which helps her navigate her patients to appropriate care.Time-Saving and Convenient: The printable materials in the unit save SLPs valuable time! It can be spent focusing on direct therapy and individualized instruction instead. The activities are designed for easy implementation and can be seamlessly integrated into therapy sessions or classroom environments.