• Bubbles! Kids love bubbles! There is only one child I have ever worked with who didn't love bubbles; otherwise it's ...

Over the last two weeks I have had the unique experience of teaching a graduate level class at West Chester University, a wonderful ...

Our conversation on Friday highlighted her educational ...

As I have gotten ...

When you do home care and ...

I really enjoy seeing a child in both their home and daycare/school ...

Recently I attended a training that highlighted different ways to handle issues surrounding children with challenging behaviors. We discussed different ways to speak with their parents and how to foster supportive relationships with them. In addition, we also spoke about different ways to address difficult ...

Timmy (name has been changed) is ...

Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 10 and is right around the corner! One thing that I love to do to celebrate the day and help the moms I work with feel special is to complete a Mother's Day craft activity during my sessions. What mom doesn't love getting a cute personalized little craft from their child??! The crafts always go over so well and the moms love it because it's ...

One of my favorite aspects of early intervention is the review meetings we attend every three months. I love hearing from ...

So now that spring is officially here (the weather has finally caught up with the calendar!), the daily routines of the families we work with are going to start to change. Children tend to be outside ...

Over the last several weeks, I have been thinking more and more about how to implement both the "daily ...

Needless to say, before beginning ...

Oral-motor work can often be quite daunting for all involved-therapist, parent and child! It is invasive and if the child is orally defensive, you can really have your work cut out for you! I do have a few trusty tools that I feel work well and I am always looking ...

For today's post I wanted to share an observation I have made regarding two different television shows that were aired during the first two weeks of this April 2009, or as we now refer to it in the special education community, Autism Awareness Month. One was televised on CNN's Larry King Live and the other was on the Discovery Health ...

Teletherapy helps link therapists with clients from miles away. Although, speech therapy over the computer may not be the best option for all clients, it's a wonderful opportunity for many!

In addition, The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) supports the use of telepractice and issued the following statement: "Telepractice is the judicious application of technology to services ...

As many of you probably already know, April is recognized as Autism Awareness Month. As a therapist who has been working for several years with children diagnosed with autism, I wanted to give special attention to the disorder that affects so many people we love. So, in an attempt to give autism the awareness it absolutely needs, I have chosen to write a post filled with an array of informational resources for both ...

Before I begin, I would like to pose a few questions to the readers: Have you ever searched for the light in a child's eye? Struggled ...

One reader's comment from New York read, "We have to keep a calendar at the home where each service writes down an activity that the family has to do and write a plus or minus sign and a comment on why it worked or did not work....The service coordinator ...

One reader brought up the practice ...

The one that was first and foremost is the demand to use the term "daily routines". As a therapist working in a wide variety of home environments, sometimes identifying definable routines can be quite a struggle. I've been in homes where they never eat a meal as a family. They are ...

Generally speaking, one of the main goals of early intervention therapy is to help the child be able to ...