Speech and Language Therapy Ideas
I release a FREE Boom deck every time Coyle’s Communication reaches another 400 followers!
🎉 The next free deck will be released at 3,600 followers and we have a little over 3500! I am planning a FREE Fun Deck as the next free deck. It is going to be a huge FREE articulation resource.
So if you aren't already following my Boom store, make sure you follow along so you don't miss the next free deck.
Michelle Coyle MS CCC/SLP
BOOM is having its first-ever SALE, and Coyle's Communication is joining in the fun!
From August 31–September 4, 2026, everything in my Boom store will be 20% off — including my already heavily discounted bundles!
This Back to School BOOM Sale is the perfect time to grab those decks that have been sitting on your wishlist and stock up on engaging, ready-to-use speech and language therapy materials for the 2026–2027 school year.
Kids LOVE BOOM! The interactive format makes it easy to keep students engaged while targeting meaningful speech and language goals. And as a school-based SLP, I love having activities that I can open and use immediately without printing, cutting, laminating, or spending my planning time preparing materials.
My goal with Coyle’s Communication has always been to create resources that are fun for kids, useful for clinicians, and grounded in actual evidence based speech-language therapy.
My Boom decks target areas including:
Many of my decks also include visual supports, audio, interactive practice, built-in data collection, and multiple activities targeting the same skill, so they can be used across therapy sessions rather than being a one-and-done activity.
I’m Michelle Coyle, MS, CCC-SLP, an ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist who has worked with children since 2000. I have spent more than 25 years creating therapy materials for the students on my caseload, and Coyle’s Communication grew out of those materials.
I design my decks with real therapy in mind: What will keep my students engaged? What will help them understand the skill? What visual support would make this easier? Can I use this with different students and ability levels? And, maybe most importantly on a busy school day — can I pull it up and actually use it quickly?
I release a FREE Boom deck every time Coyle’s Communication reaches another 400 followers!
🎉 The next free deck will be released at 3,600 followers!
So if you aren't already following my Boom store, make sure you follow along so you don't miss the next one.
📅 August 31–September 4, 2026
💥 20% off the entire Coyle’s Communication Boom store
🛒 Bundles are included!
Whether you are looking for articulation activities, language therapy, early language resources, AAC supports, literacy activities, or just some fresh materials to start the school year, this is a great time to stock up.
Happy Back-to-School BOOM shopping! 🎉
I am so excited to announce that the Coyle's Communication Boom store is a featured author for December 2025 on the main boom webpage! See my logo in the top featured authors during the whole month of December 2025 HERE.
I got this email from Boom and it made my day!
Dear Michelle,We’re excited to share that your Boom Store will be featured on the Boom Store page for the month of December! Your creativity, attention to detail, and commitment to accessible learning stood out in a big way, and we’re thrilled to help more educators discover your work.Thanks again for all the value you bring to the Boom community. You’re making an incredible impact!Heather Cacioppo M.Ed., LBS1Boom Publisher Manager
I have worked really hard on my Boom decks since opening in March 2020. There are now 161 single decks, 27 bundles, and 20 free decks (mixture of full free decks and samples) available in the Coyle's Communication Boom store. There are close to 3,000 followers too! If you haven't visited, go look at all the decks and follow Coyle's Communication!
Michelle Coyle MS CCC/SLP
My sparkling summer 2024 is almost at an end. I have had such a nice rest. I did a few of the things on my to-do list and I am not going to beat myself up about all the things that I just did not get to because the #1 thing on my list was to relax and reboot my mind which I did a LOT of! I spent my time swimming in my pool, followed by floating in my pool for hours reading Kindle unlimited books on my waterproof Paper white. That is my definition of a SPARKLING SUMMER!
I also made lots of BOOM decks that have been on my to-do list. I bought a bunch of clipart last November and am now just getting around to making all the deck ideas that I have been wanting to make. I made 21 decks this summer! If you have not been over to the Coyle's Communication BOOM store in a while, it is a great time to go take a look at all the new speech and language therapy digital decks. I even have an amazing special 50% off Speech Memory Match Bundle with 107 Memory games. This is a special introductory price until August 5th; so get it this week to get this special BOGO price!
Black Friday through Cyber Monday 2023 is here and #cyberboom is trending. I made a cute Numbers and Counting FREEBIE that will be free until Monday 11/17/23, otherwise known as Cyber Monday. Get it now, while it is FREE!
FREE Until Monday 11/27/2023 🔢 Identify numbers 1-10 🔢 Read and Match number words to the numerical number 1-10 🔢 1:1 Correspondence, Count items 1-10, Number sense 🔢 Write numbers 1-10 🎨➡️🔢 Color by Numbers 🎨 Read Color Sight Words ⚡ Perfect to assign with a fastpin ⚡ Slides will appear in random order with every play with a fastpin
Next, I have released some gingerbread cuties! The "Decorate a Gingerbread Speech House" will be 50% off until Monday 11/27/2023 as a #cyberboom deal.
#cyberboom ON SALE 50% off Friday 11/24-Monday 11/27 🎄 Decorate a Gingerbread House as you practice your speech sounds. 🎄 L, L-blends, R, R-blends, S, S-blends, Sh, Ch, Th, K, G, F, Z, V, P, T, M, N, H, FCD 🎄 38 houses to decorate 🎄 12 target practice words per page 🎄 Click the decor pieces to change colors to customize the house. 🎄 Merry Christmas
I also released a Decorate a Gingerbread Language House.
🎄 Decorate a Gingerbread House as you practice your language skills. 🎄 Functions, Categories, Describe, Position, Compare & Contrast 🎄 Synonyms, Antonyms, Multiple Meaning Words, Homophones 🎄 Who, What, Where, When, Why Questions 🎄 Pronouns, Regular & Irregular Plurals, Possessive Nouns, Regular & Irregular Verbs 🎄 21 houses to decorate. 🎄 12 target language concept words per page 🎄 Click the decor pieces to change colors to customize the house. 🎄 Merry Christmas
Then I made a really cute Christmas candy-themed 1 and 2-step direction activity. The colors are not overly Christmas (red and turquoise) and really could be used all Winter and/or year-round.
🍬 Follow 1-step directions (20 included). 🍬 Follow 2-step directions (20 included). 🍬 Full Audio Support for all directions, click the speaker to hear them again. 🍬 Reward, decorate a Christmas/Winter Candy Bar! 🍬 Directions with spatial concepts- in, on, under 🍬 Directions with describing words and colors. 🍬 Directions with quantity concepts, empty and full. 🍬 Directions with multiple modified nouns and post-noun elaboration. 🍬 Directions with negation and exclusion. 🍬 Directions with emotions.
Finally, I made a Compare and Contrast Gingerbread Boy and Girl Book Companion Boom Deck and Printable PDF Bundle.
BOOM CARDS: Compare and Contrast Two Texts Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst 🎄 Follow Directions and Draw/Color and decorate a Gingerbread Boy and Girl 🎄 Learn 6 Tier 2 Vocabulary Words 🎄 WH Question Compare and Contrast Chart 🎄 Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the books. 🎄 Summarize using the SWBST strategy 🎄 Sequence the stories with pictures and then retell the stories in sequential order 🎄 Little something for /r/ articulation or mixed groups, all the R words in the Gingerbread Boy NO PREP PDF PRINTABLES 🎄 9 Pages of PDF no prep printables to go along with the Boom Deck "Compare and Contrast Gingerbread Books" 🎄 Blank "Somebody Wanted But So Then" Summarizing chart- good for any book 🎄 Black and White Gingerbread boy and girl cookies to print 🎄 Color Gingerbread boy and girl cookies to print. 🎄 The directions from the boom card to print so you can do the activity as a printable or with the boom card, or both! 🎄 A harder following direction activity to do with the gingerbread cookie. 🎄 Blank Venn Diagram with color gingerbread cookies to print (and laminate) so students can fill in the Venn diagram with expo markers while you do it with the Boom deck on the board. 🎄 Blank Venn Diagram with black and white gingerbread cookies to print so students can fill in the Venn diagram with pencils while you do it with the Boom deck on the board. 🎄 The R word chart from The Gingerbread Boy to print.
So many Holiday Goodies!
Merry Christmas 2023!
Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP
Then I have released three new decks recently and one has a free sample with one fully functioning /k/ game at the sentence level.
Practice target sounds /k, k/g blends, sh, ch, dg, th, L, L-blends, S, S-blends, R, R-blends, Vocalic R/ at the sentence level in a fun memory match game!
Jokes and Riddles!Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP
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It has been way too long since I published a new Boom deck, but I released a new one this weekend. This one is almost 70 slides of phonological processes most commonly seen with the /sh/ sound target. You get 21 minimal pair contrasts in this deck!
For the phonological process of stopping /sh/ is contrasted with /t/ and /d/, and for fronting /sh/ is contrasted with /s/. There are seven minimal-pair picture sets for each of the three contrasts and four different activities with each set also.
First, bombard your client with /sh/ words with two auditory bombardment lists. Then, go over the seven minimal pairs in a card set that is fully audio-supported. Click the pictures to hear them talk. Then go play with the minimal pairs by putting them on a shelf. This is intended for open-ended play so that you can use it for receptive practice to see if the child can process the difference OR you can have the child say the pair of words as they put the pictures on the shelf to differentiate from the way they say the /sh/ and the target sound.
Level up the comprehension of the minimal pairs by moving the talking pictures into fill-in-the-blank sentences to really show that you understand the difference between the words. Finally, play a fun memory match game to practice the seven /sh/ target words in your chosen minimal pair set. The game pictures will change positions every time you load the boom deck which makes it playable over and over and each time it's a brand new game.
If your client misarticulates /sh/ due to a phonological processing disorder, this deck has you covered with tons of activities to meet all your needs!
See it in my boom store; HERE.
Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP
Hello Everyone!
I made a FREE boom deck just in time for St. Patrick's Day. This goes along with one of my favorite books for this holiday, "How to Catch a Leprechaun" by Adam Wallace.
I included story sequencing, temporal questions with first, last, before and after, story retell with picture support, and two levels of comprehension questions! This is jam-packed with goodies for your language therapy and can be used with a wide age range (K-5th).
Add it to your BOOM library for FREE! https://wow.boomlearning.com/author/coylescommunication
I have only ONE WEEK until Spring Break 2022 and I am Ready!
Love, Ms. Coyle MS CCC/SLP
