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Elf of my SLP shelf

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Do you do Elf on a Shelf?  I was initially hesitant.  The first year I had our elf, I forgot where I hid him.  For 2 weeks I ran into the room expecting to see a decapitated Elf that our dog had chewed up.  It was stressful.  The second year I started seeing some cute […]

Clue into Cues: Tactile cues

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I started talking about this last month-and then got a little distracted with the holidays.  My topic of the month for November and December is cues/prompts.  I’m using them interchangeably but I realize that many people do make distinctions between the two but I don’t.  Maybe I’ll form my own island and have my own rules […]

Holiday Perspective Taking: Freebie

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I started working on this product in October of 2013.  I didn’t get it finished before Christmas and have been slowly chipping away at it during the last year.  I really like my Halloween Flip Flap trick or treating activity and wanted to incorporate that idea into a Christmas activity with a perspective taking theme. I don’t […]

Cluing into your Cues: How understanding what you are doing can help you better advocate for speech pathology services.

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I am a master of the phonemic prompt.  My son even uses it with me.  “Mom, do you think we should got to the store and buy some L…(legos?)  It’s so effective that it works on many of my colleagues.  I may be in the gym and I’ll say something like, “It’s time to throw […]

Thanksgiving Round up

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Here’s a round up of some of my projects and activity ideas for Halloween: Turkey cookies and Thanksgiving trail mix:  Check out my Thanksgiving themed trail mix and make turkey K-cups for your coworkers.                     5 Awesome ideas for hand turkeys in therapy:  This is the easiest activity […]

Soapbox Saturday: Confusing Shipping Charges Drive Me Crazy-Repost with an Update

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Last year I wrote about how shipping charges that are a percentage of an order drive me crazy.  I don’t understand why a company would want to penalize you for purchasing more products.  I understand that rising gas costs and increased shipping charges have made free shipping more difficult.  Cuts in special education funding have […]

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