

How Art Can Help You Achieve Feeding Goals
Use art activities to help your child with sensory feeding issues


How Your Pet Can Help Your Child Communicate
A short article on how pets can improve social interactions, communication skills and feeding.


Bye Bye Bottle:Why You Need to Ditch it Sooner Rather Than Later!
3 reasons you should stop bottle feeding after 6 months


Making Communication Boards on PowerPoint
learn how to create activity or communication boards using powerpoint


Valentine Letter Identification
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


Snow Day Fun...INDOORS!
Scoop freshly fallen snow and bring it inside for some easy snow day activities.


3 Tips to Help Your Child Focus
Some kids need visuals to understand what you expect of them. It is the reason why children's books have more pages with illustrations than anything you read in that advanced russian literature course you took and miraculously passed in undergrad. Pictures make the spoken word more concrete. Visual countdowns, first/then boards and schedules can help your child focus, and make sense of all the directives and expectations that are placed on them. These are tools to not only he


Four Visual Aids to Manage Your Child's Behaviors and Increase Attention Span
We've all been there- you are trying to complete a fun activity with your child or student and you can't seem to get them sit still for long enough to finish pasting one petal on a flower. You start off with a kind, sweet voice and within 5 minutes you're ready to pull hair out and yell" ENOUGH!! SIT DOWN AND JUST LISTEN TO MEEEEEEEEE!!" What if I told you it doesn't have to get to that point. You can get through the day without having a major meltdown. It simply requires so








































