Pictures courtesy of: Boardmaker Plus Looking for a language game with a Halloween theme? Well, here’s a Creepy Crawly Categories game just for you! Simply dowload, print, cut out, and have your children sort the creepy crawly spiders into the correct web category. Want to make it a bit more difficult? Challenge your students to […]
Pumpkin Bean Bag Toss: I just played this simple game last week and it was super fun and great for facilitating multiple repetitions of target sounds! First, I cut up 10 index cards and numbered them accordingly. I placed two bean bags on the ground (different color for each child). If you have more than two […]
I found these fun Halloween erasers for $1 a bag in Target’s $ bin section. They come in packages of 25. I knew when I first saw them I could use them for some type of therapy activity. And luckily for me, I remembered I had them when the time came for me to use […]
Liked the Busy spider activity? Here are a few more fun Halloween articulation and language activities you could do at home or in therapy. Articulation Spider Web-I bought some yarn and made a human spider web for the kids to climb through. I used clothes pins to fasten the articulation pictures to the yarn (you could use language pictures […]
I love Eric Carle’s book, The Very Busy Spider! (I love all of his books really, but I especially love this book for this time of year.) I tend to read it often in the fall, probably because this is the time when we start seeing more spiders out right before the cold weather hits. Also […]
Need a Social Story for Halloween? I made this simple story by using clipart from Microsoft powerpoint. If you want to make it more personal, I would suggest taking pictures of your student or child practicing Trick or Treat activtivies and add them after their respective pages within the book! Check it out! Full PDF version […]
You may have heard of Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) or Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) in the past. These terms are used interchangeably and refer to the same skill set. The following information was adapted from the ASHA website (American-Speech-Language Hearing Association). Please click on the link above for more detailed information. What is (Central) Auditory Processing […]
The following blog could NOT have been possible without the guidance, education, and assistance of Lynn A. Wood, M. A., CCC-A, LSLS Cert. AVT of Auditory Verbal Center of Wheaton. She is a wonderful resource and wealth of informtion. Please find her complete biography at the bottom of this blog. Auditory Verbal Therapy (AVT) is a great way […]
Audiogram: An audiogram is a graph display of one’s hearing threshold (i.e. the lowest volume one can here at various pitches or frequencies). Volume is measured in decibles (dB) and pitch is measured in hertz (Hz). X is the symbol for left ear measurements and O is the symbol for right ear measurements. When […]
We all remember the school nurse taking us to her office, placing headphones on our ears and asking us to raise our left or right hand when we hear a “beep” in the respective ear. But we didn’t know that was just scraping the tip of service in this wonderful science called “Audiology”. Audiologists perform […]
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