Are you ready to hear about my tips for teaching before and after? I am always thinking about how to best teach concepts-how to make what I am doing is not only evidence based but it is effective. I have a few clients who need to work on temporal directions such as before/after. Teach Before […]
Halloween Paper Craftivities: Rerun
Do you come up with new Holiday activities or do you tend to have your same Holiday activities that you use year after year? I definitely have some of my favorite activities that I use. I used to LOVE to scrapbook. I’d go on Scrapbooking weekends, or all night Scrapathons. I have a whole bunch […]
Third Thursday: Lego® Blocks {Linky party}
Welcome to my second Third Thursday Three for All linky party. Once a month, I challenge myself to come up with 3 ways to use a different activity/game, teach a specific skill or 3 different resources to address different activities/goals. The “for All” part comes in when other Speech bloggers join in with their new […]
A Unique book to work on Following Directions
Do you ever find yourself purchasing gifts for your kids that you know you will use in therapy later? The Biscuit has had a lot of those gifts. Last year for his birthday, I found a unique book called “Press Here” by Hervé Tullet. There is a direction on each page. The child completes the direction […]
Spring Blog Hop
Welcome to the SLP Spring Fever Blog Hop! You will get the chance to win prizes and get freebies by touring 12 fantastic blogs. Here is the lineup: 1. Figuratively Speeching SLP 2. Just Wright Speech 3. Queen’s Speech 4. Putting Words in your Mouth 5. Straight Up Speech 6. The Speech Umbrella 7. Miss Thrifty SLP 8. Rae’s Speech Spot 9. Speech2U 10. Word to the […]
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 […]
Squinky Directions Part 2
I found this little Polly pocket house at Goodwill for 1.99 this weekend. It folds up for easy storage. I liked the fact that there are lots of different areas that you could use for spatial concepts or following directions. The refrigerator opens, you can move the stairs or you can lift up the bed […]
Dollar Spot Christmas Trees
So I found these cool oversized sticker sheets in the Dollar Spot at Target. I got a Christmas Tree, a Gingerbread House, and a Snowman. I laminated them so that I could use with more than one student. We used the Christmas Tree in therapy this week and had a LOT of fun. I wrote some […]
Squinkies
There is a book I recommend to parents called, “Just Give Him the Whale: 20 ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise and Strengths to Support Children with Autism” by Paula Kluth and Patrick Scharz. It’s an easy read which gives ideas for teaching skills using interest areas of children diagnosed with ASD. I strongly […]
