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Orange Pumpkin Book—Revised; Get Ready for Halloween!

October 13, 2021

15 October 2021, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Chapel Hill Snippets] Back in 2012, I found an awesome Halloween book on Tarheel Reader, and after adding interactive icons, put it up on my blog. It has been a huge hit, and when I was working in the schools, my students read it…...

October 13, 2021

15 October 2021, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Scanlon Speech Therapy] On my daughter’s first Halloween, she received the book titled Mouse’s First Halloween. Since she was only 3 months old and a little too young to really appreciate this adorable book, I, like any good speech-language pathologist, used it…...

October 12, 2021

15 October 2021, Halloween, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Childhood 101] Memory or Concentration is such a great first game to play with older toddlers or preschoolers – though school-aged kids can get so much out of it too! That’s because success in Memory relies upon children remembering where they…...

October 12, 2021

15 October 2021, Article, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: ABA Learning Lab] Halloween is upon us, and that means most kids (and some adults) are eagerly anticipating dressing up in their favorite costume and enjoying the spoils of trick-or-treating. We grab our biggest pillowcases, our parents make sure our costumes…...

October 12, 2021

15 October 2021, Newsletter, PT, Tip or Resource

[Source: Starfish Therapies] Looking for some fun things to do with the kids that are Halloween Themed and will work on those gross motor skills? Check out these games! Pumpkin Bowling: You can literally use a small round pumpkin or you can…...

October 12, 2021

15 October 2021, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Ms. Lane’s SLP Materials] These “before” and “after” temporal directions have a Halloween theme. For example: “After you touch the bat, touch the skeleton.” I like using these worksheets to target following directions with basic concepts from the CELF-4 assessment. This…...

October 12, 2021

15 October 2021, Halloween, Newsletter, Sensory, SPD, Tip or Resource

[Source: Hands on As We Grow] I love a good sensory activity! Halloween is a great time of year to get a little messy, too. This fun Halloween shaving cream sensory activity is the perfect combo of messy fun and holiday spirit!…...

October 11, 2021

15 October 2021, Cerebral Palsy, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy, a movement disorder that affects use of one side of the body, showed improved use of the arm and hand after receiving a high dose of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) in a clinical trial…...

Netflix Brings Back Autism Dating Show

October 11, 2021

15 October 2021, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Disability Scoop] A documentary series following young people with autism as they experience the world of dating is set to return. The second season of “Love on the Spectrum” will debut on Netflix this month with six new 45-minute episodes. The series, which first…...

October 11, 2021

15 October 2021, News of the Week, Newsletter, Special Education

[Source: Disability Scoop] Federal officials say that individualized education program teams must consider everything from goals to masks to compensatory education in order to ensure that students with disabilities are being provided the free appropriate public education they’re entitled to during the…...