Both Ciara and I love incorporating reading and literacy development into all of our sessions. We work with a diverse population of kids at our center. Some come from low print home, some won’t sit still for a book. Sometimes the parents aren’t great readers either. Can you relate?
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We all have our favorite toys and activities that we fall back on. After 15 years in practice, I am going to share my top five picks. These are the toys I can’t live without. if I had a bare-bones closet and had to make things up on the fly this is what I would choose.
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Boom card, boom learning, boom decks. What is all the fuss about? After being thrust into online therapy and a new version of in-person therapy my lovely co-worker Ciara opened my eyes to this new world of digital speech therapy materials.
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It was a Thursday night in early March when Jen and I received an email. The email went something along the lines of, “we will be stopping direct patient care for two weeks……”. With this news came fear and anxiety-like we have never experienced before. Would we lose our jobs? How would our patients progress without school and therapy? How would we survive being stuck home with our husbands? Two weeks turned to six weeks and we quickly realized that life as we knew it had changed. We were officially homebound and quarantined. Being forced to take time away from work puts things into perspective. The patients we serve are so important and special to us, but having time with our families is essential. I vowed to enjoy my quarantine. When else would I get six weeks of quiet?
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Gosh, this year has been a doozy.. am I right? 2020 has turned out to be full of adventures, unforeseen plot twists, and some disappointment. As far as narratives go, this one has been a little on the tangential side.
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