Rock Chalk Speech Talk

This is an area that is so very near and dear to my heart.  If I could treat preschoolers with Apraxia all day long, I’d be in Heaven.   This is an area of speech therapy that I just love!   I feel like these kids *really* need me– I know everyone on my caseload ‘needs’ me, but I feel like it’s… Read More

I love Brown Bear week in preschool!  I love this book because it’s so simple, yet there is SO much you can do with it.  Here are some of the things we did this week in therapy to go along with the book! While reading the book, I had my kids tell me the name of the animal on each… Read More

One new thing I’m doing this year is going into the preschool classrooms during small group instruction time to be my own small group rotation.  Each teacher does it differently, but typically the class is broken down into 3 separate groups, and the kids rotate to a new group every 6-7 minutes.  Prior to this year, the preschool teacher would… Read More

This week is my first full week back at school.  While I do miss lazy summer days (It’s only day 3 and I’m already tired of having to plan out my work outfits every night…), I have to admit I love seeing and working with all my kids again.  It has been great seeing how many of them have grown… Read More

At the end of the 2011-2012 school year. all certified staff members in my district received an iPad, as a result of a big push to increase use of technology in the classroom (which, ps, I’m not sure how I ever lived without an iPad–now that I have one, I don’t think I could go without it!).  “Use more technology”… Read More

Linking up with Crazy Speech World for my first post! I’ll be honest… Being highly organized is not my strong suit. My desk (and the surrounding area) is chronically messy. I told myself at the start of last school year that I’d put everything back in its place and leave my desk clean every night before I left, in an… Read More