Lunch time woes
September 2012 Dear SLP at my children’s school, I’ve spoken with you in the past as I am the SLP at a school down the street from youย and we’ve shared kids before. I also happen…
Author: CC
1st week of school
I hate the first week of school. There. I’ve said it. While all my other teacher friends are writing sentimental statements about how excited they are about students coming back and how fresh and eager…
Sometimes we need visuals at home too!
Part of the pain The biggest pain regarding my cast and crutches is that I am unable to do almost anything around the house. Pick up trash? Nope. Load of laundry. Nuh uh. Get new…
Thoughts with crutches
I’ve been hopping around for a week and a half now and am trying to compile my thoughts about having a broken foot. I’ll be sporting a fab cast until at least 8/1 Primarily, what…
Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse…
I was dancing (aka raising the roof) with students in the hall to “Celebration” on the last 5 minutes of the last day of school. I jumped backwards onto a coat rack, felt a pop,…
Can pain and the future ever go together?
My children finished school for the year today. Professor X has to solo parent until I am done next week. What will that mean? Today’s post is taken directly from Professor X’s status update a…
It’s not that I’ve forgotten
…how to blog. It’s just that since my last post I’ve had 34 IEP meetings, 2 permissions to test, 2.5 all-day trainings, 1 personal day (to attend a field trip with my son), 6 in-building…
Take your child to work day
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. After haggling with my principal, I was approved to bring my 8 year old son to work with me on Thursday. This being an elementary school, and…
PSBD
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I’ve had quite a productive spring break! I painted a room. Sick of the pink shade my last beige paint turned out to be. Attended an off-Broadway musical….
S- blends games
I created these games to use with my young students working through the cycles articulation program. They could be used for any s-blends students. I really like to take the spring flowers game out around…
A binder based schedule and work system (say that 10x fast!)
Fellow School-based SLPs/ Parents/ Teachers/ Etc… do you any of you ever wonder if your job is transforming from SPEECH Pathologist to behavior specialist? I sure do. It takes up a large portion of my…
Letter of the week stories
I use these “stories” every day in circle with my Life Skills students and then carry them into indiviudal therapy by matching/labeling/or identifying the key concept in the story I created. Rainbow Rabbit Hop, Hop,…
I Speak For The Trees
I figured I should proselytize my eco-green-crunchy-granola-NorthWest ways to the rest of the world… I haven’t used paper towels in my home for almost eight years. And napkins? Same thing. (Okay, except for the kids…
Letter of the Week Stories Q
To go along with my “P” story, the following week was (obviously) Q week. My over-fried brain could come up with no other obvious thing to write about except a Queen. I considered putting my…