Here is the third and final installment the series, Mindfulness in Speech: The Calm Down Corner. When emotions get wonky we all need coping strategies to help us calm down. Enter: the calm down corner. How does my Body Feel? My calm down corner starts with this “How does my body feel” chart. Pointing out, […]
Hey! Part 2 of mindfulness in the speech room coming at you! Another important part of mindfulness is being aware. Both of your external surroundings but also of your inner state. For my students (and probably yours), labeling basic emotions is the first place to start. I practice this with my students implementing mindfulness in
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Mindfulness is SUCH a buzzword right now. Sometimes it feel like no one even knows what it means, am I right? In this post I will show you how to implement mindfulness in the speech room starting with the mindful minute practice. The way I practice mindfulness in my own life, is being present in
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So you’ve heard that literacy based therapy is the way to go? You’ve heard that it is one of the most evidence based ways to target a variety of language goals. You know it is what is best for your kiddos. But how the heck are you supposed to read a book when you can’t
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So you know that you need to teach categories in speech, you know it is a foundational skill that your itty bitties need to learn, but you ask you kiddos to tell you three farm animal, or you ask them “what group do a cow, pig, and a chicken go it?” and you get blank
I mean… I went a little wild this year buys new books for Easter, but it’s ok, because I think I have rounded up some of the very best Easter books for literacy based speech therapy for your itty bitties. In going through these Easter books for speech I realized that Easter is an AMAZING
STORY TIME: Let me tell you why we are targeting sequencing in speech so much this year. Last year, one of my students with an intellectual disability somehow ended up getting on the wrong school bus and ended up at the wrong school. No one at that school noticed until the END of the day
So you’ve heard all about flexible seating and how great it is for students of all ages and ability levels. You have kiddos that would benefit from flexible seating in speech to increase their sensory readiness for learning. You’ve seen all of those awesome pictures of classrooms with lap desks, futons, wobble seats, exercise balls,
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