I’m knee deep in evaluations that are backed up and IEPs that are due and two new kids that moved into our school with speech….BUT it won’t get me down because…. IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR! Check out all this FUN we are having in my crazy speech world! I found some holly […]
Social Skill Builder {App Review}
Hey y’all! I hope that all of you enjoyed your holiday weekend!! July 4th is probably my favorite holiday because it always incorporates my peeps, a bathing suit, and something delicious on the grill…plus fireworks. What’s not to love? 🙂 Anyways…I’m back with another app review for you guys! This one is called Social Skill […]
Tattle Tongue Book Craftivity!
This post contains Amazon Affiliate Links If you don’t have any Julia Cook books in your therapy bag of tricks, you need to get some!! I was lucky enough to have my school buy several of her books for us and I have been LOVING them! Now you know little kids sure love to tattle, […]
Emotion Detective Books!
About a month ago I shared this post on emotion charades and I had an idea to create photo collages with my little friends who are working on basic emotions. And when I get these ideas, they usually morph into something else…and this one sure did! Yes, it turned into an entire book. AND I LOVE […]
Emotions Charades
I was pretty stoked that the Monday we came back from spring break, my intern was scheduled to be with me. <insert sigh of relief here>. AND, she came up with a fabulous activity for our social skills group and I wanted to share some with you, plus my spinoff! First, she had emotions on […]
How to use The Snowman to Work on Emotions – Freebie!
ALLLLLLLL SLPs know the insane value of a wordless book. Hello, language samples. So obviously, The Snowman by Raymond Briggs is a winner just for that…but what is also a winner, is the animated film based on the book, that also has NO words. Hello, language therapy. Free on YouTube? You betcha. I have used […]
Social Thinking Speech Tree!
When I was planning my social skills lessons for this week, I knew we had some situations where students were not exactly demonstrating the holiday spirit. And by this I mean the candy-grubbing, selfish-talking, present-hounding, wall-climbing monsters who sometimes take over the my precious students’ bodies around this time of year. So I came up […]
Flexible Thinking Activity!
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. I knew after reading though the Superflex Curriculum from Social Thinking that I was eventually going to have to create this activity. And it gave me a lot of anxiety. Confession time…I hate jello. Oh boy, do I hate it. I can’t stand the thought of that stuff. So […]
Perspective Taking with Sticky Notes!
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. I was perusing my local Walmart recently, which is a pretty rare occurrence, since I can’t stand Walmart. Seriously. Open another register, already. You have 47 registers and only 2 are open. That is reeeeeediculous. But sometimes we go there cause it is so convenient when you need 26 […]
Activities for "You Are A Social Detective…"
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. Recently I brought you my review of You Are A Social Detective: Explaining Social ThinkingⓇ to Kids by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke… and now I am FINALLY getting around to sharing all of the cool activities we did to go with that book! Woot! If […]
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