Plant AAC Bingo
Going with the theme idea I have recently incorporated into my therapy, I am switching around circle time with my Life Skills students. I am working on basic vocabulary (this month with a plant theme)…
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Auctionable Cookies. Feb 2011.
I’ve lost track of what number I’m on for my auctionable cookies. But these are my hearts desire. I call these Sara’s Addictive Coconut Cookies . (Cuz Sara gave me the recipe. And they are…
Therapy Thursday: Froggy Gets Dressed
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I’m attempting a new idea to stream-line my therapy preparations: month long themes. I know these are common in classrooms, but since I see most of my students…
Sometimes I park far away (gasp) on purpose
Here’s the situation. There are far too many people with handicapped stickers. Or maybe there are just not enough handicapped spots. Or maybe it’s all of the above. Consider a trip to Costco and the…
The Boy Who Ssssssurvived
For my Harry Potter friends, Professor X has now supplied me with a list of /s/ practice sentences to accompany the Star Wars /s/ sentences. Harry Potter /s/ sentences! The Slytherin seeker was the first…
Ssssssstar Wars
My geeky Professor X created a great list of /s/ sentences for all my Star Wars loving students. If you have a child working on /s/ who loves Star Wars, have them practice these sentences…
Literature-based comprehension (reading and listening)
This is probably the BEST literature-based comprehension website I have ever seen to help me with my language disordered students (since I attempt to make my therapy literature based). It even comes with TONS of…
Goals for 2011
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. These are not New Year’s Resolutions. I have a New Year’s Resolution. It’s a longstanding one that I’ve only somewhat been able to keep over the years: I…
Books I read in 2010
Yet again I have failed miserably in my quest to read a book a week (on average). You know…like I did pre-children! My favorites: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: Potentially life changing autobiographical…
A Speech Therapist’s Review of The King’s Speech (updated)
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. My mother told me there was a movie out about a Speech Therapist and a king, and that it could win Academy Awards. So of course I begged…
Revealing a disability
I made a decision this year to really reveal Professor X’s physical disability to friends/family near and far. Although we’ve made reference to his chronic pain on Facebook posts and previous Christmas cards, we’ve never…
Visual Schedule (Holiday Style)
I have spent a huge portion of my year thus far creating a new system for visual schedules. After beating our heads against the wall for the first month of school, our team decided to…
Holiday Gifts that Save the World
Our family goal at the holidays is to try to give lovingly and intentionally. Give up and above the 10% we give throughout the rest of the year. Give to show that Jesus’s birth is…
Auctionable Cookies. Year 2. Month 3.
I skipped a month posting about my Auctionable Cookies. Not sure what I made (that’s why I’ve been blogging about them), but I’m sure they were good. Here is my Halloween cookie treat. They are…