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Flat Marble Manipulatives are Perfect at Home

August 10, 2020

14 August 2020, At Home, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: PreKinders.com] While teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic this year, teachers will need manipulatives that are easy to clean as well as inexpensive. It would be so easy to resort to just photocopying worksheets, but that’s not how children learn best. Children…...

August 10, 2020

14 August 2020, Article, Newsletter, Special Education

[Source: Vox] When Simon’s school in Maryland closed this spring due to the pandemic, his family didn’t know what to expect. “Like every family who has a kid in school, there was a lot of uncertainty,” Simon’s mom, Laura LeBrun Hatcher, told…...

August 6, 2020

"Tip or Resource", 7 August 2020, COVID, Newsletter

Welcome to Issue number 20 of our special e-letter, “Teaching & Therapy Resources for Homebound Families” (Did you miss our previous issues?| Read them HERE) Each week, this e-mailer features new resources, articles about this bizarre time we are living in, and…...

August 6, 2020

7 August 2020, ADL, News of the Week, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Tunstall’s Teaching Tidbits] This week we have been discovering the clock in our room. Our standards say to represent and tell time. What better way to represent time than to make our own clocks in every way we can! In small group…...

August 6, 2020

7 August 2020, ADHD, Autism, Newsletter, SPD, Tip or Resource

[Source: Yoga in My School] This game helps attune individuals to all the sounds in their environment. It is wonderfully versatile and can be played with one other person, a group, or all alone. In addition it builds concentration and memory. This…...

August 5, 2020

7 August 2020, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: No Time for Flashcards] I have gotten a lot of questions over the years about what’s the MOST important exercise for teaching a child to read, and there really isn’t ONE, reading is a whole buffet of things that come together.…...

Fun At Home: Lego Picture Puzzles

August 5, 2020

7 August 2020, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: I Can Teach My Child] We have had so much fun with these LEGO picture puzzles! The boys and I just laughed and laughed at the combinations they created. And the LEGO “puzzles” took only a few minutes to make once I…...

Literacy At Home! Adapted Books

August 5, 2020

7 August 2020, Adapative Books, Newsletter, SLP

by Peg Hutson-Nechkash, M.S., CCC-SLP Exposure to books and interacting with print are goals for many of our students with special needs. Adapted books provide hours of fun and meet treatment goals for students of all ages. Adapted books are adaptations made to…...

August 5, 2020

7 August 2020, Job, School Psychologist

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or text us at 662-524-9099 Are you a Licensed School Psychologist looking for a great job for this upcoming school year? If so, we need you to apply today! We are seeking a licensed school psychologist to…...

August 5, 2020

7 August 2020, Job, SLP

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or text us at 662-524-9099 Looking for a Bay Area SLP position this coming 2020-21 SY? We are seeking a Speech-Language Pathologist for Millbrae, California. Millbrae is located south of San Francisco and west of the Bay. Millbrae…...