When I write these posts I don’t like to say any of my lists are exhaustive. I often realize, “I use this material all the time, yet I haven’t written about it on my blog!” That’s why I like to write each list about my “favorite” things instead of the ones I use most often.
I tend to only write reviews for products I love and use often. Here are some reviews of my favorite materials and apps. You can find more ideas for following directions here. You can find more ideas for social skills here and more ideas for regulation tools here.
July’s theme is OCEAN! Click here to visit my virtual treatment room for July and see what apps, websites, books, and videos I’m using this month. Here’s a link to my folder of themed virtual treatment rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it your own if you want to). You can find …
April’s theme is gardening! Click here to visit my virtual treatment room for April and see what apps, websites, books, and videos I’m using this month. Here’s a link to my folder of themed virtual treatment rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it your own if you want to). You can find …
In 2021 I found that my graduate student clinicians were having a hard time learning all the treatment techniques I use on top of all the activities I use. I started this blog to help them by creating an organized database of techniques and activities. Now that I’ve done most of that I’m reducing my …
Update: I’m so sad to see that this app is no longer available! Toca Kitchen Monsters is another FREE app from Toca Boca. In this one we get to choose a monster, choose different ingredients, and try to prepare food that the monsters will eat. Here are some ideas for using Toca Kitchen Monsters as a naturalistic …
I made this FREE digital narrative grammar worksheet based on this 5-finger story retell strategy. I love this strategy since kids always have their fingers with them and they can use them when telling their parents about their day. I use this worksheet with a couple of the activities I’ve mentioned in my favorite narrative …
This is the activity I use most often for following directions. One of the things that makes the $199 annual fee for this program so worth it is that it’s very customizable. You can set the difficulty from preschool to adult. I tell my older patients to let me know if it’s too “childish” for …
Please visit my original post here to learn the basics about therapy dogs and animal-assisted intervention in speech-language pathology. Expressive langauge skills are the easiest to address with AAI. You simply have the animal do things (or wait until they do things) then use common techniques such as communication temptations to get the child to …
Before I found Disney shorts I used 5-minute stories for narrative recall. Most of these stories have good narrative structure, even though they take as little as 5-minutes to read. Of course, when the child is reading them they often take a bit longer, but sometimes my goal is for a child to recall a …
