Recently I came across some Yeti games, and then some Yeti books, and then some Yeti clipart…and down the rabbit hole I went. I loved the idea of have a theme that didn’t necessarily have to tie to a specific holiday or month and was different from the typical winter and snowman topics that our kids have done for years….
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Back to school, apples, pumpkins, Halloween, Fall, Thanksgiving, turkey, Christmas, Hanukah, winter, snowmen…the beginning of the year is packed with themes and ideas for therapy. Then, February has Valentine’s Day, March has St. Patrick’s Day and so on…but what about January? By the time you get back to school the New Year has had its moment and is done. There…
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Literacy-based therapy has become quite a buzzy term lately, but what is it, really? In short, it is using books ( or other literature ) as the foundation for your therapeutic interventions. Did you know that almost half of preschool children with language-impairments develop significant literacy learning difficulties ( Aram & Nation, 1980) even if their delays appear to be…
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Shifting your language from words that have a heavy correlation to the negative can have a positive impact on everyone.
I firmly believe that SLPs have some of the biggest and most compassionate hearts out there. That being said, our hearts can sometimes over-rule our heads when it comes to our students. We see all of their struggles and everything we can help with…and so we try too. We write goals for skills that maybe ‘nice’ if they had…
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My name is Maureen and I used to write all of my goals for 80% accuracy. It was routine. A habit, and I couldn’t stop! It was so automatic when I reached the accuracy portion of writing a goal. đ¤Śđźââď¸ Why did I do it? Well, that’s what they told me to do in grad school. It was as simple…
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