Oh, how Pintearesting! is hosting a blog link up for BSHM! Want to know what your favorite bloggers are up to this May? Check out her blog to find all the link ups! Here’s what I’m into this May!!! Buying: So anyone else stumped on what to get their hubby for Father’s day? My husband […]
It’s FREEBIE FRIDAY so you know what that means…a freebie for you! This is from me personally.I am working on K and G so I thought I’d make a word building activity to support phonological awareness while working on articulation. So…of course, if I make it, you get it! That’s how it works! Anyway, check […]
This is the second installment in my Nonverbal Child series. Remember this series focuses on the Nonverbal child under 5 years old with typical hearing and vision. With that said I have used the same techniques for older children with age-appropriate toys and activities. So some of these techniques can be generalized to other ages […]
I am super excited to announce that Pattie Fitzgerald, child safety advocate and founder of Safely Ever After, Inc. has given me a signed copy of her book NO Trespassing-This is MY Body! for this giveaway to celebrate Better Speech and Hearing Month. This book is GREAT for parents, educators and SLPs when talking about […]
It’s that time again! Freebie Friday brings us to another fun language activity with my cute monkey clip are I got at www.graphico.com. Check it out!Palm Tree Match Up is a match up game between objects and their attributes. I also added some blank trees and bunches of bananas so you can make your own […]
I have been performing early childhood assessments for the last decade and particularly over the last 5 years have encountered more nonverbal children between the ages of 3-5 than I have in my previous 5 years of therapy. I wonder if there is a trend in the severity of disabilities we are able to diagnose […]
I saw this cute clip art from Lilly Bimble Digitals and knew I had to make some farm themed activity for my PK and K kiddos. So I made this interactive book about living on a farm. It targets several things: expressive vocabulary, discussion of a single category (farm animals), rhyming, making predictions to fill in the […]
Today I’m writing about something one of my ASD kiddos taught me. I had been working with a client who was nonverbal for quiet a while with very little progress despite using every trick of the trade and every fun toy I had up my “speech sleeve”. I had tried EVERY reinforcer known to man […]
Today I’ll be talking about the differences between the Son-Rise program and ABA (applied behavioral analysis). I placed this blog as part of my April ASD series here AFTER introducing one aspect of applied behavior analysis known as DTT (discrete trial training) and discussing Greenspan’s DIR and Solomon’s P.L.A.Y. project so that we have a […]
I saw these cute spring colored pencils from Creative Clips clip art and immediately thought of a sequencing activity I could make for my kiddos. Many of my young language delayed children struggle with retelling stories so I begin by teaching them ways to “sequence” everyday activities into 3 steps (modeling a beginning, middle and […]
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