Use these tips to get through the holiday season. Whether it's dealing with unsolicited advice from family or how to provide the supports that your child needs to stay calm and navigate through the changes in routine. Be prepared, be ready to adapt and be easy on yourself!

A few economical ideas to create a sensory exploration table

A few tips from a pediatric SLP on helping your special needs child participate in Halloween activities

Tips from an SLP on using pretend play to work on speech, language, feeding, and social skills

This posts walks you through creating a communication notebook for your child. This notebook will help bridge the gap between non-verbal and verbal communication as your child continues to work on speech, language and communication. It can also be used for a child who is not responding to cues and prompts to verbalize, but needs a reliable method of communication across environments that they are ready for.

Use your child's intrigue with makeup to address their speech and language goals.

Learn how picture symbols can help build receptive vocabulary and expressive language

A short article on how pets can improve social interactions, communication skills and feeding.

learn how to create activity or communication boards using powerpoint

Anyone who works with kids will tell you, keep the activity simple so you can focus on the goals. I try to do the same with this blog and the material I create for sessions. Use this to target letter identification by having your child color in the letters as you name them or for sound to grapheme ( "puh" for "P", "mmm" for "M"). Tele-therapy tip I send sheets to be used during the next session ahead of time, so parents can print them out and feel ready for the session before