My son and I just finished reading a Magic Treehouse book about Ninja’s. Last night he was running around the house with a towel wrapped around his head, “I’m Ninjago.” At first, I thought he was brilliant. He was making up NEW words. But it turns out Ninjago is a Lego ninja. Anyhow, when […]
Archives for November 2012
MonsteRenegades
I recently subbed in for a client I had over the summer with difficulty producing /r/. It took most of the summer to establish the /r/ and we were working on it at the word level. A few weeks ago, I filled in for her current speech language pathologist. What a difference a few months […]
Scrambled Egg Sentences
I have several clients who have significant difficulty creating grammatical correct sentences during conversational speech. Two of them have goals for sequencing a group of words to make a sentence. We’ve used some great worksheets from Linguisystem’s No Glamour Grammar books. But after awhile, we were starting to get a little bored. One thing I […]
Gobble gobble pizza turkeys
I like using crafts and recipes in sessions when I can. It’s motivating for the kids and helps us to practice our speech and language targets in more of a carryover type of activity. This week we made pizza turkeys. We worked on following 2 step directions containing before, sequencing, paraphrasing directions, vocabulary, and articulation. […]
Hand Turkeys
This week I’ve been a little obsessed with hand turkeys. I used to make a fancy one with my preschool clients with feathers and a little Thanksgiving Poem. This year, I used them for almost everything. I think I got the original idea from a post on Pinterest about using the hand to cue Main […]
Perspective taking FREEBIE
Perspective taking is skill that is difficult for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Jill Kuzma has great information on Perspective taking skills on her blog. The games Guess who or Guess where can given you insight on a child’s perspective taking abilities. Many of my clients struggle with understanding that I have a a different character than […]