If you are anything like our family, you have wayyyyyy too much Halloween candy left over from yesterday's holiday! We have three bags of candy we never even opened! I guess we overestimated how many little ghosts and goblins would be knocking on our door last night! Now we are left with a wide variety of extra chocolate treats plus the sweets my ...

''The Biggest Pizza Ever'' by JibJab Jr. is a fun book app that you can use to work on answering ''wh'' questions, teaching verbs, stating emotions and much much more.  Here's how it works: Choose who is going to be the main character of the book and then choose Create Character and add photo, name, and skin type. Now you are ready to ...

This week instead of a recipe, I would like to share a fun lesson that expands on the apple theme from last week's recipe post. This is a lesson I created and implemented with my occupational therapist colleague and is an imaginative mix of communication and sensory-enriched activities! The Story of Johnny Appleseed The lesson began with a ...

Today's post is about maximizing the work we do in the classroom by promoting carryover at home. This topic was inspired by one of the requests shared during the February SLP poll, which specially asked for: ''Support and ideas to give parents to help them work on skills between therapy visits'' Daily practice and reinforcement is very important ...

Last week I shared some food-based lesson plans related to Eric Carle's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Today's recipe can be easily paired with another one of Eric Carle's timeless gems, The Grouchy Ladybug. I used this recipe a few years ago with a class of kindergarteners who had all been diagnosed with autism. What I loved about this ...

For those of you who had a chance to read the SLP poll results from February, several readers requested that I include actual therapy lesson plans in the blog. So, to honor that appeal, I would like to share some food-based lessons that we have been doing in our preschool class related to one of Eric Carl's most famous children's books, The Very ...