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Grab a pen and sit with me for a few minutes. We’re going to do something together that’s going to affect how you do your therapy every day.
Most companies determine what their values are and splatter them on their websites, employee manuals, and marketing materials. These companies...
Hot topic alert!! I might be crazy for posting this...I've never been into using visual schedules in my speech sessions.
Why? I feel like they help ME organize my sessions and give me structure, but I never felt like they were helping my kids.
Here are 3 reasons I tend not to use visual...
Understanding dysregulation is so important.
We cannot support a child’s sensory needs if we don’t know their needs.
Making note of what is causing a child to be dysregulated is so important.
But dysregulation can look different for each kid.
So how can we tell if a child...
“How can I support one child’s sensory needs when it is dysregulating to another family member?”
And this is a fair question.
There are 6 of us in my house and inevitably when you get a group of people together,...
Raise your hand if you have ever had a child walk into their therapy session holding their favorite toy and you thought "you know what, I'm just going to take this toy away so it's not distracting".
Now raise your hand if you immediately regretted that decision...
We have all been...
