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 ...

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 ...

As a speech-language pathologist, it's important to continue to expand educational lessons that our students find motivating. Last month, in honor of Autism Awareness Month, Mighty Book Jr  began offering a free membership to all Autism Speaks members until December 31. I have been using this site to create many lessons centered around ...

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 ...