Day 5 leading up to Apraxia Awareness Day on May 14th has me offering a giveaway for Word FLIPS by Super Duper Publications. Word FLIPS can be a useful and handy tool to use with kids who have apraxia. It allows practice for simple CV syllable shapes for up to 3 repetitions. It also allows for combining combos to form other bisyllabic words i.e. tie+knee = tiny. I usually give
This is a little late, but I see private clients on Saturday and I needed an activity to go along with the book “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick,” by Lucille Colandro. As you probably know, I usually incorporate repetitive books into therapy as a way to provide vocabulary in context, but to also have the kids participate by having a part in the book to
I was finally able to make a new game for my kiddos with enough time to spare for St. Patrick’s Day! This game follows the same idea as my other repetitive games. Kids have a game board, in this case, a black pot: The kids draw a card from the card deck. If the card contains a shamrock with gold coins, the child collects the amount of coins
I decided since my Spooky SpiderWeb game was so popular, I’d make another one for my kids with a winter snow theme. I go back to work tomorrow and I’m excited to play this with the kids. You start with printing out the snowman boards. Glue onto a manila envelope or cereal box and cut out the mouth. Then cut out the game cards and snow balls. Cutting
As we move into January and I’m spending some time off during my winter break snowed in, I decided to create a follow up companion pack to my most popular companion pack to date, which was “I know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell.” This is a similar repetitive story named, “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell.” This companion pack follows a similar format: I
The Gingerbread Man is a classic story that all my kid’s love. It is a repetitive style book, and as you know, I love using repetitive books in therapy! The first page has some pictures to cut out and use while reading the story as props. You can even glue them onto popsicle sticks if you’re so inclined! Next, if you’ve bought any of book companions, you