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 box 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 these emoji erasers, which I got a couple years back and found that each kid either loves or hates them. I also got these heart-shaped squeezers for my prize box. You can find the rest of my themed prizes here.
Here’s February’s self-care-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 themed virtual treatment rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it your own). You can find my other themed virtual treatment rooms here.
I love snow! We don’t get it often in Albuquerque so it’s very exciting when we get it. Here are the ways I’m incorporating “snow” into my practice for January… You can find my other themed virtual therapy rooms here. You can find more themed sensory bins here. You can find more themed prizes here. …
For my snow-themed prizes I got snowflake magic wands and wind-up Olaf toys. You can find the rest of my themed prizes here.
For my snow-themed sensory bin I got white tinsel pom-poms and added the cold-weather animals from my Terra by Battat ocean animal set (the artic animal Toob from Safari Limited could work, too). You can find the rest of my themed sensory bins here.
Here’s January’s snow-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 themed virtual treatment rooms (so you can download and edit a room to make it your own). You can find my other themed virtual treatment rooms here.
I was inspired by “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” for my December theme. In it Olaf travels around Arendale and asks each family what their holiday traditions are. He gathers traditions for Christmas, the winter solstice, and Hanukkah. I like to talk to kids about their holiday traditions as well as the traditions of cultures they’re unfamiliar …
