Melanie from It Happens in a Blink is in the process of sprucing up and redecorating a few rooms in her home… all at the same time. With a preschooler and triplets, I can only imagine Melanie needs all the quick and easy projects she can get. Fortunately, this wooden wall sign she made fits the bill in terms of time and money. By using a free pallet and common crafting supplies, Melanie created her sign with practically no expense!

I'm Bored Checklist {Summer Boredom}With the inevitable summer comment of 'mom, I'm bored' this list is a great direction to point them in! Customize a list for each child with things that they enjoy doing! Perfect for children of all ages.View This Tutorial

"Thank you for making dinner, Momma." "Thank you for my new toy." "Thank you for reading to me." "Little Brother, thanks for the balloon. Thanks for getting my favorite color." When I hear my boys say these things, unprompted by me, I feel...well...thankful. I am grateful that they are starting to appreciate what they have

When I speak to graduate students about to enter the schools each summer I always try to teach them my favorite way to do therapy. For me the best way to do therapy is to find

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Here’s a simple Nerf game that you can put together in 5 minutes from stuff in the recycling bin! I recycled the cardboard box from our Pumpkin Patch Counting game and made this fun Nerf target. Shoot the balls and make them fly off the cardboard tubes! We used our lightweight plastic ball pit balls […]

Adapting games for therapy is something therapist do all the time! My friend Megan and I have the same favorite game which is Cariboo! Enjoy this guest post by Megan Exner, MA, CCC-SLP, on using

*This is a sponsored post on behalf of Cricut. As you know, I have been working with Cricut. I love the opportunity it has given me to create some fun and unique ways to use my Cricut Explore Machine. My kids were huge fans of lacing cards when they were younger. I have always been

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These are great portable sensory activities for autism! They are small enough to take in your purse, and provide great sensory input...

Do you ever have days where you know exactly what you need to target, but are just looking for a different way to do it? I know I have had many days like that, especially when working on articulation. My first year in the schools, I know that I was so frustrated with the monotony (to me at the time) of working on articulation, that I wasn't sure I even wanted to do the job anymore! With my crazy caseload now, I have gotten over the feeling that articulation work is monotonous, and now embrace the time I have with my students working on articulation. We can have so much fun together! So, you may ask, how did I get over the feeling of monotony? Well, I made a deal with myself that I would try to change things up. I would take items that I already had and use them as reinforcing activities during articulation work. Here are ten activities that really work for me: 1. Go Fishin- This is a game that I had in my speech room, and every time I had it out for my preschool population, my older students would see it and want to play too. So, I changed it into a way to use it for articulation work. I wrote numbers on the bottom of each fish, so that each time my students catch a fish, they have to say their word or sentence that many number of times. If I could do this again, I would start with higher numbers (I did 1-4) to get more productions. 2. Making Progressive Sentences- My kids think this is hysterical. We start with one articulation card and make a sentence. "I see a soccer player." Then, we add a card and add to our sentence. "I see a soccer player eating a sandwich." Then, we add even more! "I see a soccer player eating a sandwich with Santa." 3. Chipper Chat- This is my one go to item that is fun for all ages. My students LOVE to pick up the chips with the magnetic wand. Students roll the dice and say their word or sentence the number of times on the dice. Then, they get chips to put on their board. When they fill up the board, they can take the chips off. Sometimes, I have students start with all of the chips on the board and take that number of chips off the board. I use the set from Super Duper Inc., but there are lots of different magnet chip boards that you can find on Teachers Pay Teachers. If you don't buy the Chipper Chat set, you can find a bingo magnet and chips at a store like Wal-Mart or Target. I have even seen them at the dollar store occasionally. 4. Paper Clips on Articulation Cards- This works great with the chipper chat magnet wands. Just put paper clips on your articulation cards, and the kids can go fishing for cards. I like to put the cards face down so that the cards are a "surprise" each time. 5. Memory- Ok, I'm sorry, but really, my kids of all ages still LOVE to play memory! I try not to play it too often so it doesn't wear out it's welcome though. 6. Paper Bag- Put cards in a paper bag and pull them out. Try to guess what you will get before you pull it out. If you guess correctly, you get to keep it. First person to guess all of their cards correctly wins. Some kids have a really eerie ability to do this! 7. A Good Book- I love to take a good book out for students and try to find words that start with their sound. I pull out a piece of paper and we write down all of the words that have their sound. I love when I can have them bring books from class for this so that they may think about those words again during reading groups with their teacher. 8. Categories! I have students pick a word from their articulation cards and tell me the category of the item. We create piles of different categories and see how many different piles we can make. Students have to say their word in a sentence, "A sandwich is an food." I love this activity because students get both articulation and language benefits. 9. Guess the Item- I describe the articulation word to the student and see if they can guess the word I am describing. 10. Articulation Recall- We roll the dice to see how many cards the student has to recall. I then present that number of words to the student and give them a moment to memorize them. Then, we flip them over face down and see if the student can recall each word before flipping it back. There you have it! Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned veteran, hopefully some of these ideas will help you to cut the monotony and put more fun in your articulation sessions.

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If you’re just starting home staging, check out this post to wrap your head around the basics and the process I’ve used to stage our house to sell in 36 hours and get multiple offers. When you’re ready to begin preparing your home for the market, the absolute first thing you should do is

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A while back my friend Agnes took me to see her grandmother Lena. At her house I saw a really cool and funny “toy” that she had made for Agnes. A fort made from leftower items and paper. If you look past the pretty pink decor you´ll find different gadgets and instruments that looks like…

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In Scandinavian folklore, there are numerous races of beings, the best-known of which (apart from human beings) are the gods and the jötnar, their nemesis. In rather simplistic terms, these may be said to represent the forces of good and evil. Between these two groups of beings are a range of creatures that come in all shapes and sizes.

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It can be really hard to get my kids attention and Attention Autism has been a brilliant tool to help us work on this. If you don’t know what it is then read my post on Attention Autism first. For those of you who know what it is, I have pulled together my favourite bucket

Free and Funny Family Ecard: Yes! Lets take all of our toys from our bedroom into the clean living room. Mom loves that! Create and send your own custom Family ecard.

Make a string and bead puzzle to challenge kids' thinking and problem solving skills. Part of STEAM summer camp.

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Core vocabulary has proven to be a very useful tool in my therapy room for my low/non-verbal students. It allows them to expand utterances in a way that other AAC methods simply fall short. In

Teachers today know that kids love SPORTS! Everything is about sports. And teachers too love them- As teachers we are constantly looking for ways to connect with our students and trying to relate music to their world. Since I played tons of baseball as a kid-I was even the pitcher on the first New Jersey …

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Geoffrey Hayes, who hosted children's programme Rainbow, has died aged 76. The actor, who presented the show from 1973 to 1992, died in hospital with his wife and son by his side.

An after school sitter from Care.com is not only a master at getting kids from here to there, but she also makes the time in between fun!