Last week I shared that I would be back on the road joining our Early Intervention homecare team once again for a few visits a week. I am still working in the preschool for the majority of my week; however I have added several Birth to 3 homecare families to my caseload as well. I also shared that since I left homecare roughly 3 years ago, some ...

Due to changes at the workplace, which are mainly fiscally driven, my current work position is expanding and I will no longer treat children solely in the preschool. Now, some of my days will be split as I will be back on the road in homecare therapy for a few hours a week. It's been more than 3 years now since I left homecare and the birth to ...

As promised this month's posts will be full of fun holiday therapy crafts, recipes and activities! Today's post highlights just some of the endless ideas which can be found on Pinterest. For those of you who are new to the Pinterest scene, the following information from Wikipedia may help to answer any of your questions: What IS ...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All! Over the next month I will be highlighting holiday recipes, crafts and various speech and language activities that can be used both in the classroom and at home with young children in need of speech and language therapy. Here are links to some fun Christmas ideas for your therapy sessions this month. Each ...

These hot summer months are a great time to dine outdoors!  Several weeks ago I wrote a two-part post entitled Picky Eater Summer Solutions, which presented a list of creative ways to promote healthy eating habits with small children during the summer months. One of my suggestions was to embrace the outdoors by laying out a blanket and having ...

Happy Summer Everyone! As you may or may not know, I just gave birth to our second beautiful little baby girl just two short weeks ago on June 11th. Today, I decided to try for the first time taking both children out together on my own. My older daughter is just four months shy of turning 3 and as you can imagine has a ton of energy, so I have ...

Now that the week is just about finished (Happy Friday!) and St. Patty's Day is just a day away, I thought I would share some really simple activities you can do at home with your little ones - and picky eaters! - to celebrate this oh-so-green holiday! Try Some Kid-Friendly GREEN foods! Green Jell-O® Jigglers Make lime GREEN Jell-O by ...

Today's post is full of yummy drink recipes for the little leprechauns in your life! Recipe 1: Rainbow Punch You will need: food coloring (several colors) seltzer water white grape juice straws clear colored cups (so you can see the rainbow!) Steps About a day before you intend to make this punch, fill an ice cube ...

Today I want to share one of my favorite apps to use with preschoolers who have receptive and/or expressive language delays. It's called ''Monkey Preschool Lunchbox,'' and is a mere $0.99 to download onto your device. Below I have listed the overall layout of the app in bullet points. The concepts that the app addresses are in ...

Last week I wrote a post about using communication boards in a preschool classroom. This week I wanted to write a brief but hopefully thorough follow-up post about the effective use of such a tool in the classroom setting, and to examine its obvious limitations. One parent responded to last week's blog with the following: ''My daughter used ...