I’ve got a couple of reaalllly wiggly kids that are working on articulation. Today, I took a break from the table and set up stations in a therapy gym. Each station had a set of 10 articulation cards that the children had to say three times before completing the station. Here were my Stations: 1. […]
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One year ago today.
One year ago today I was getting ready in the locker room of the gym where I work out. I work out early in the morning and usually check my email as I’m drying my hair. I opened my phone and saw it: 3 missed phone calls from my parents house in Arizona-starting at 3:00 […]
Behavior: When consequences don’t work the way we think they will.
When I first starting practicing, I worked with a child who used to bolt. About a week before my wedding, he bolted out the front door of the clinic in to a busy parking lot. I ran after him SO worried that he would be injured or hit by a car. He ended up falling […]
Autism: Kids Social Skills Books
I won an award at work for “Most likely to be seen on “Hoarders: Speech Pathology Edition.” I think I could probably argue this title, as I don’t actually hoard a number of the SAME materials. For instance, I don’t have 12 copies of No Glamour Grammar that I picked up at the local Speech […]
Still hopping along…Easter Egg puzzles.
Thank you SO much to everyone who participated in the blog hop last week. I hope you had a really good time and were able to find some new blogs to read. Even though the blog hop is over, I’m still hopping because it’s Easter week and I ended up with lots of activities for […]
Praxis: It’s not just a test you take after school
A few months ago I went out after dinner with an occupational therapist friend of mine. We spent the night catching up and geeking out on therapy techniques. She was describing a class she had taken on Ideational Praxis. I found an article online called, “A Theoretical Model of Ideation in Praxis” by Theresa May-Benson, […]
Light Box Therapy
Last year, there was a plethora of postings about using your own light table during therapy. I saw postings on Play at home mom, Testy Yet Trying and Speech Room News. This was also around the time that I started having some anxiety about the lack of fun sensory experiences I’d given to my then […]
Come on Snake Eyes: Using Dice Games in Therapy
I’ve gone dice crazy. Dice are fun because it inserts that element of chance into a session. It’s not me that’s making you do six repetition of your target-it’s the dice. Plus the dice games are really motivating for kids. AutismTeachingStrategies.com has a fantastic blog post on using game like elements to teach social skills […]
What to do with your old packaging and a GIVEAWAY
This was adapted from an idea I’d seen on Pinterest. The idea was to put sight words onto bubble wrap and then let the students pop the bubble wrap. I’ve been waiting for big bubble wrap to come in a package to try it out, but have only received the little itty bitty bubble wrap. […]
Not for the weak of Heart: Bologna Valentines
People generally have strong feelings about bologna. I remember my first bologna sandwich. I’m pretty sure it was on the now defunct “Wonder bread” with one slice of bolonga and my name written in mustard on it. The best part of these sandwiches was that when you placed your finger down it would leave little […]
