Community outings can help teach students in a natural environment. Grab your free printables for high school students today and start practicing...
Medication management is a part of my clinical practice with patients, for a number of reasons, and my medication management kit is one of my favorite clinical tools. There is some debate about whe…
Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
Everything you need to know about speech delay in bilingual children. Includes infographics with milestones and red flags to look out for.
Here are the best resources for OT students on how to stay organized, improve studying, enhance writing, and stay up to date!
Allen Cognitive Levels (ACL) show 6 levels of functional cognition and level of assistance needed ranging from Coma to “Normal."
Directions: Have the students cut the images on page 2 and glue them to their correct locations on their Worksheet on page 1. Then, trace the words in gray. This worksheet goes along with Laurie Ann Thompson's book Emmanuel's Dream. The worksheet practices reading, OT, and Speech skills through word recognition, word-picture matching, key details, comprehension, cutting, and gluing. These worksheets have worked well for my students with Autism from K-3; however, they have also been used in Pre-K and 3-5 Special Education classrooms. I hope you enjoy!
The Speech Articulation Flip Charts illustrates mouth anatomy and the structural movements involved in the production of each of the vowels and consonants of American English - Vowels front, central, back, diphthong - Consonants semivowels, fricatives, stops, affricates - Open mouth, cutaway head and vocal folds views, overview of respiration - Perfect group of images for anyone in the swallowing field - Stand up or fold and carry - Basic Anatomy education for any setting
Looking for free cognitive assessments for your adult patient population? Check out these five free assessments with instructions.
As many of you return to work or have started already, here are some tips for the upcoming school year: 1. Support your students - Whether the student's goal is a lofty one or a easy goal support the student 100% to achieve the goal. Maybe it is something the student really wants to achieve. Or perhaps a teacher feels it will benefit the student. Whatever it may be, if you do not believe that the student can achieve it he/she probably will not. Make it your goal to help them achieve their goals. 2. Be patient - Students learn at different paces. Make sure you give them time to respond. Whether it be to complete a functional task like dressing or to take a step allow them to initiate all movements or steps possible before you provide verbal or physical cues. 3. Model Appropriately - If you want students to perform a certain task a certain way try to model that task for them. If you can not model the skill see if you can get a peer or a video to demonstrate for the student. 4. Remember the goals - It can be hard to stay focused on a few goals when a student exhibits many needs. But, by focusing on certain skills you can provide more assistance in areas that the student, teacher and parents have indicated to be important. Therapists frequently catch glimpses of a student's daily routine so we need to rely on others to help to set the proper goals. 5. Ask for help - To repeat the sentiments in number 4, therapists catch a glimpse of a students day. Ask questions to the student, the teachers and the parents. The more informed you are regarding a student the more you can offer your expertise. Care to add any more tips to the list?
A social story is a simple description of how to behave and what to expect in a particular situation. Grab your 13 free editable social stories here to...
Everything you need to know about speech delay in bilingual children. Includes infographics with milestones and red flags to look out for.
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Today, we welcome back Vicki Clarke with more helpful information on conducting AAC assessments. If you work with individual who are at the early stages of communicative development, this post is f…
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I have quite a few kids on my caseload that understand what they *should* do in problem solving. In fact, they often can solve a problem in theory, but they struggle in reality with being flexible in their problem solving. They tend to see things in black and white- their way or everything is ruined. This rigid thinking can be difficult when forming and maintaining relationships with peers and family members. The holidays are a time when rigid thinking becomes very difficult. Schedules are less predictable, the number of social interactions tends to increase, and novel situations may pop up. In preparation for the upcoming holidays, I developed a tool to help teach flexible thinking. As you can see above, I start with information about rigid vs. flexible thinking. I then give some examples of what flexible thinking might look like: Then there are 16 situation cards that deal with things like getting a gift you don't like, not getting what you wanted, handling changes to the schedule,and other situations that might be disappointing/result in rigid thinking. After each scenario, you can ask the students how they can change the thought to be more flexible. If you are interested, this is for sale at my TpT store. The super cute clipart was created by Jeanette Baker of Jason's Online Classroom. Do you have any tips for teaching Flexible Thinking? I know the Superflex Curriculum has some pretty great stuff, unfortunately, our department's budget this year went to updating our testing materials, so it is a dream for another year for me.
The What Questions book is a spiral book printed on cardstock, standard paper size, 8.5x11 inches. The 17-page book contains 15 What questions AND comes with 20 laminated flashcards, printed on cardstock and approximately 3 x 4.5 inches. Each page contains 1 question with a correlating picture and 3 answer choices also with pictures. Help your child gain a higher level of comprehension by asking questions. This spiral and flash cards set is the perfect start for your child's language development. This Product is mailed to you and READY TO USE What you will receive: 1 Spiral notebook, 17 pages, containing 15 questions, printed on cardstock 1 set of 20 flashcards, printed on cardstock, laminated. *Please Note- Spiral is not laminated/nor velcro. This is not a busy book. It's purpose is to work one on one with your child, creating conversation, and gaining higher levels of comprehension by asking what questions. And is a great speech therapy tool! ALL products are for personal use ONLY and NOT for re-sale ALL products are for personal use ONLY and NOT for re-sale Permission of use: PCS® by Tobii Dynavox® All rights reserved. Used with permission. PCS® and Boardmaker by Tobii Dynavox® All rights reserved. Used with permission.
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The other day I was reading about a mother’s excitement over her daughter’s language acquisition. It had me thinking back and remembering how that felt for us. My son is now 12 and has …
Echolalia is over believed to have no communicative meaning at all. However, new research suggests otherwise, there are many possible functions to echolalia
