I’ve spent years enjoying my time working with the most withdrawn and isolated children with ASD. You know the ones I’m talking about. The most significantly delayed child. The non-verbal child who is so immersed in his or her own world of idiosyncratic behaviors that they appear to be oblivious to others. I write “appear” because […]
Speech-language pathologists always ask me how they can be the one to assess sensory processing and where do they start? Well first let me say, that sensory processing checklists are quite user-friendly and are often made for the purpose of having input from the child’s primary caregiver as well as information from the classroom teacher […]
Last week we touched base on WHY we should learn about our student’s sensory needs, what sensory processing disorder (SPD) is and how it can affect behavior and learning. Now the question remains, now that we know why types of processing deficits our students have, what do we do about it? When we talk […]
Technically it’s FREEBIE Friday and one lucky person is going to WIN a FREE copy of my product, Sensory Needs and ASD: What EVERY SLP should know! All you have to do is comment below on why you want to win this product. I will use the number generator on random.org to determine which […]
It’s April (well almost)! It’s my FAVORITE month of the year as an SLP because it is AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH!!!! And those of you who have been following me for some time now know how much I love talking about all things ASD related. So…today’s topic is on ASD and SPD. So let’s get on […]
I hope you have fun with the blog hop and found reading these facts and fibs as funny as I did. So what was my fib? B. I met Corey Feldman on the streets of NYC. FIB Truth: I actually did see Corey Feldman in person on the streets of NYC when I was there […]
Welcome to the April Fool’s Two Facts and a Fib blog hop! Do you know the rules? Below are three “facts” and you need to decide which on is my “fib”. Use the quiz graphic below to mark your answers (you can grab it at the first blog on this hop if you haven’t already) […]
Today I’d like to address the myth I hear very often from other SLPs about play therapy. “Play therapy is not structured enough to reach my speech therapy goals.” I believed the myth too once upon a time: Ok let me first say I too was that therapist that believed this 12 years ago […]
For my students who struggle with working memory, I tend to notice that many of these children have a difficult time “playing the movie” of what they have heard or read in their heads. When we read a book, we have a visual, what I like to call “a movie” playing, where we can visually […]
This week I talked about some of the auditory memory tasks I use in therapy to help improve memory recall for auditory information. So today I’m sharing an quick freebie that offers a list of associated words as well as 3, 4, 5 digits for immediate and delayed recall. This list is meant for a […]
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