October is ADHD awareness month! I actually learned very little about ADHD’s effects on communication as a graduate student and it wasn’t until I began seeing lots of patients with ADHD that I started to wonder about the connection between the disorder and speech and langauge. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to work with …
October is my favorite month so as I’ve been developing monthly themes that I can reuse each year, I was most excited for this one! I started with “spooky” as the theme, but the more I thought about it “MAGIC” is better because it includes all the spookiness while still including topics for kids who …
For my magic-themed sensory bin I bought glitter kinetic sand, added iridescent black plastic rocks, fairy minis, and mini dragons (which I got from How to Train Your Dragon blind boxes that are no longer sold). You can find the rest of my themed sensory bins here. And you can find the rest of my …
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.
October is my favorite month so as I’ve been developing monthly themes that I can reuse each year, I was most excited for this one! I started with “spooky” as the theme, but the more I thought about it “MAGIC” is better because it includes all the spookiness while still including topics for kids who …
Every October I practice trick-or-treating with my patients. For the week before Halloween, we end our regular appointment early and I have the kids go out into the hall, knock on my door, then say, “Trick or treat!” and I give them a piece of parent-approved candy (I get a pack of Yum Earth’s Halloween …
For my “magic” prizes I got a pack of glow stick jewelry; I like giving these out for Halloween so the kids can wear them as a safety precaution while trick-or-treating. I also used the remaining glow stick bug jewelry from last year (they weren’t very popular and I had a lot left). You can …
For my magic-themed sensory bin I bought an off-brand kinetic sand (which I don’t recommend because the glitter came out – I recommend the official Kinetic Sand brand glitter sand, instead) and added these plastic gems and these fairy minis. I then added the magic minis I already had, including Llama Hatchimals, unicorns, and dragons. …
I was so excited to make a reusable virtual therapy room for October! Click here to visit my magic-AKA-spooky-themed virtual treatment room and see the webcams, apps, videos, and websites 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 …
October is ADHD awareness month and while I talked about incorporating your patients’ interests in my other post, in this post I wanted to include a related self-care tip: “incorporate your interest.” Individuals with ADHD experience hyperfocus with their interests and “hypo-focus” with many things outside their interests. For this reason, incorporating interests can be …
