Update: I’m so sad to see that this app is no longer available! Baby Shark Hospital is a similar one for $13.99 and so is Animal Games Doctor for Kids, which is FREE. I’m constantly looking for new and fun naturalistic activities. One of my favorite apps is Toca Pet Doctor. This app isn’t one …
For my pet-themed sensory bin I got black plastic rocks (which are great with construction vehicle toys!) and added some glow-in-the-dark plastic rocks. I then added these Paw Patrol figures and two pet Safari Toobs. This bin has been evoking all sorts of conversations about different pets – so many of the kids I see …
As the price on all my usual prizes has increased I’ve had to change my monthly prizes. For March I grabbed these Bluey stickers, these Bluey bubbles, these Paw Patrol stickers, & these Gabby’s Dollhouse stickers. You can find the rest of my themed prizes here.
Here’s March’s pet-themed virtual treatment room! Visit it to see the webcams, apps, videos, and websites I’m using this month. Here’s a link to my folder of treatment virtual therapy rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it your own). You can find my other themed virtual treatment rooms here.
Each month I switch out the apps, websites, and videos I use during treatment. Here are the ones I’m using this month… Toys/Board Games/Apps Books Videos Also: here are some ideas for using Disney shorts in speech & language treatment. You can find my other themed naturalistic activities here.
With Valentine’s Day, “Galentine’s Day,” and Saint Dwynwen’s day all around February most people think of “love” as a theme for this month (here are my other monthly themes). I wanted to use “self-care,” instead, because it’s the way we show love to ourselves and it enables us to show love to others! A couple …
For my self-care sensory bin I wanted to use the hot cocoa breaths exercise as inspiration. I had a heck of a time putting this one together. I’d planned to use chocolate-scented kinetic sand, but I couldn’t find any sold individually! So I took the chocolate-scented sand out of my sensory bin for November. Then …
I love the Zones of Regulation. Through it, Michelle Garcia Winner and her colleagues incorporate all the things I’ve learned about sensory processing, emotion regulation, and self-care. I can’t recommend the Zones curriculum highly enough for all SLPs or, really, anyone working with children. I found when using the tools from this book I needed …
I recently ran into a problem: the toddlers I’m working with needed a toy that could help them learn to label emotions. Interestingly, our research is showing that it’s easier for children to label others’ emotions than it is for them to label their own so I start with kids labeling the emotions of others. …
For my “self-care” prizes I decided to use emoji erasers like these, which I got a couple years back and found that each kid either loves or hates them. I also got heart-shaped squeezers like these for my prize box. For 2026 I’m thinking about adding these heart-shaped sunglasses & these Valentine’s slap bracelets. You …
