I would say at least 50% or more of my caseload has exhibited challenging behaviors for the last 16 years that I’ve been practicing. Hitting, throwing, spitting, biting, work refusals, crying, refusing to leave etc. Today I’m going to talk mostly about individual sessions. At school settings when I have one student who is more […]
Archives for April 2014
Love It AND list It {Linky party}
Thank you to Jenna from The Speech Room News for hosting another awesome Love It and List It. This month’s topic is behavior management. What a great topic-especially when students get so squirrely at the end of the year. I always start by making sure that my activities are fun and motivating. Because I work with […]
Autism: Zeroing in on WHAT to teach.
I’ve been working with children on the Autism spectrum for the last 16 or so years. I’ve noticed more consistently in my state (Minnesota) that these students are not always being serviced by the Speech Language Pathologist. I’ve heard some colleagues mention that these students need services from an Autism specialist or that they […]
Finding your TPT niche {linky party}
I’m excited to be linking up to Teach Speech 365’s “Finding your TPT niche” linky party. I am a big fan of the origin movies for comic books (sorry-I’m a nerd who married a nerd) and this linky party is an opportunity for us to share our “origin” stories. I was a TPT and […]
Recycled Guest Posts: Teaching communication Alternatives to Challenging Behaviors in Young Children.
Shari was a 5 year old girl who just started therapy. She wasn’t producing any words, had minimal eye contact and cried during most of each session. She really enjoyed ball slide types of toys but became upset when she wasn’t allowed to control the entire interaction. When the clinician touched the ball she cried, tried […]
Recycled Guest Posts: Wise Wallet Wednesdays: Don’t Throw Away those Packing Materials.
Hi! I’m Kelly from Speech2u.blogspot. I’m really excited to be participating in the dabblingspeechie’s Wise Wallet Wednesdays. I know I’m always looking for a way to stretch those budget dollars (when I have a budget, that is.) If you are lucky enough to get a budget and get materials, I’m going to show you a […]
Recycled Guest Posts: Speech Snacks Feeding
This is a post that I did to celebrate Speech Snack’s 2 year blogging anniversary! About 10% of my caseload is feeding clients. I don’t blog a lot about feeding therapy techniques because I think that these kids really need services from a feeding team and trained professionals. Suzanne Evans Morris is a FANTASTIC resource […]
Recycled Guest Posts: Functional language therapy: Making Chips in Therapy
I’m recycling some guest posts I did over the last year while I am on vacation. I hope you are having a great week!******************* I really enjoy incorporating hands on activities: crafts, experiments, gross motor games and cooking in my therapy sessions. I use these activities with early Elementary clients up to Middle school […]
Recycled Guest Posts: Inferencing
I’m recycling some guest posts I did over the last year while I am on vacation. I hope you are having a great week! ************************** One of my favorite skills to work with older children is inferencing. So I’m really excited (and a little nervous) about my first guest post for Carrie’s first year […]
More “Cheep” Easter ideas and a Freebie!
I’m super excited to be heading out on another trip-this time to Disney World to celebrate my mother in law’s 70th birthday. While I’m gone, I’m going to run some of my guest posts I’ve done on other fabulous’s bloggers sites. I had a few more fun Easter activities that I did this week that […]