[Source: Teaching Mama] Most of these activities just require a few ingredients. So easy and TONS of fun! Visit this Great Aggregated Post on Teaching Mama.org...
Here is a great blog, recommended by NASP!! [Source: Kristina Sargent – the Art of Social Work] Here are a couple simple and easy to make therapeutic board games. These are also games you can find at your local second hand toy shop.…...
[Source: Reading Rockets] by Timothy Shanahan So the woman who runs my local children’s book store told me that more and more parents of young children are asking for “nonfiction beginning readers” because “that’s what Common Core wants.” Really? In kindergarten and…...
by Joanna Verdone, OTR/L I have been trying to teach my social groups about being proactive. I am so tired of hearing excuse after excuse. This lesson seemed to go over really well to help the students realize they do have control…...
[Source: I Can Teach My Child] After our Word Family Snowball Toss activity, I was trying to think of a way to repurpose the ping pong balls and thought it would be fun to use them to fish! Learning word families (words with the same…...
[Source: Science Daily] A new study of Tourette syndrome (TS) led by researchers from UC San Francisco and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has found that nearly 86 percent of patients who seek treatment for TS will be diagnosed with a second psychiatric…...
[Source: Science Daily] Athough listening to music is common in all societies, the biological determinants of listening to music are largely unknown. According to a new study, listening to classical music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopamine secretion and transport,…...
Editor’s Note: An OT friend of mine sent this our way. Are our children all becoming sensory defensive? [Source: New York Times] Jackson Schad gave up on jeans in kindergarten. “They’re really tight, and I just don’t like how they fit on…...
[Source: PRI.org] Babies raised in bilingual households spend significantly more time watching the mouth of the person speaking to them than their monolingual counterparts, according to a new study. David Lewkowicz, a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at…...
[Source: Speech Techie] Chatterpix Kids (free) is a fun, simple app that allows you to turn any image into a “talking head” by recording a 30 second message. Apps that combine images and audio are prime targets for language as they lend context…...
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