Wednesday, May 2, 2012

David Gets in Trouble Social Thinking

I have a number of students on my caseload who struggle with understanding "social thinking", including expected/unexpected behaviors.  Yesterday, I used David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon.  Not only are the books delightful award winners, it gave my first graders a fun way to to practice recognizing these expected and unexpected behaviors.   Of course with David, they are usually unexpected!

After each page, we would "vote" on if we thought the behavior was expected/unexpected using our new popsicle  sticks.  The kids loved it!
I used our Ellison cutter and a little tacky glue for our sticks.  So cute!


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Dipping My Toe in the Blogosphere!

Here I go!  I have fallen so in love with Pinterest and other SLP blogs, I finally decided give something back!  What better way to celebrate Better Speech and Hearing month than start my own blog. 

Social media has encouraged many changes in the little speech office, which I share with another SLP and until recently a wonderful graduate student.  In the spirit of Pinterest, we have organized, classified and tidified (couldn't think of another one).  I wanted to share the one that started it all!