December Newsletter with links and other resources
Hello all!
As always, I have many ideas and lots of experience. I tend to give you waaaay more than is humanely possible to follow through with. My hope is that this will spark an idea for you to use in your home- by changing it or by using it in a personal way. NO PRESSURE. I only care that you received the info- and honestly it saves me time from texting and emailing individual families all week long.
At any time, if you’d like me to take you off of the list, please let me know. This is not meant to overwhelm or stress you.
Attached:
- Some pictures for your child and you to use to help decrease the stress of having to produce utterances – PECS or AAC (Pinterest has some great ones!)
*Also Teachers pay Teachers (free and you don’t have to be a certified teacher to use it. Search ‘free’ section.
* https://lessonpix.com ALL kinds of resources to be printed. Stories, singles picks, flashcards with or w/o words.
It’s about $36/year the last time I checked but WELL worth it.
- An Occupational Therapist’s view of learning (The pyramid of Learning) An Occupational Therapist’s view of Learning (The pyramid of Learning )
- note I do not follow this… but it gives you perspective
- American Speech Language/Hearing website- ‘Norms”(American speech/language association
*provides checklists of language skills and articulation (approximations) by age.
- 11 essential skills below — LAURA MIZE (lots of YouTube videos)
5 General articulation guide… very general . DO NOT worry —we are working on a different pattern and order most likely.
I spoke about front and back chaining this week with most of you. It’s great for developing phonology (sounds/words) and also works well for language development for those of you kids who are development reading and pre-reading skills FIRST before talking. Let’s talk! It’s easy and fun after you get it.
Happy Holiday and Happy New Year. Enjoy and soak up all the joy! (Or hope you did)
Miss Kim
