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Behavior Management Strategies

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Now that the holidays are over, children may need a few reminders on how to interact in a positive way during therapy sessions, in the classroom, or at home when doing homework. Try reflecting on what behavior management strategies worked during the first half of the year and if there are new ones you may want to implement.  Below are some strategies that can help prevent problematic behaviors before they start to make it a great homework, therapy, or classroom session for everyone! 1. Set therapy rules and make them known at the beginning of each sessiowhole-body-listening-larry-postern. Post a list of “class rules” along with pictures so students know what is expected.   The rules can be positive statements like, “we will raise our hand when we want to speak,” and “we will listen to the teacher and follow directions”.  Keep in mind that some students may not know what it means to “listen to the teacher”. Social Thinking has a great visual called “Listening Larry” which teaches students what “Whole Body Listening” looks like. To learn more about this and to purchase the poster, visit https://www.socialthinking.com/Products/Whole%20Body%20Listening%20Poster 2. At the beginning of a session provide students a visual schedule of what will happen in therapy that day.  This way students see what is coming next and when the session will end.  You can create these on smart boards,.
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Holiday Gift Picking Guide

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Choosing a gift for a child during the holidays can be fun, but it can also be an overwhelming experience when you walk into the toy store and see so many different possibilities. You may often think, which toy is the best for my child?  Toys can help a child explore the world, gain new knowledge, increase fine motor skills, and improve language and social skills.  The American Occupational Therapy Association published a checklist about what to look for in a toy to further help develop skills. http://www.aota.org/~/media/Corporate/Files/Practice/Children/Browse/Play/toy-shopping-checklist.PDF Toy Ideas
  • Blocks- The possibilities are endless when using blocks.  You can practice fine motor skills by stacking, engage in pretend play by building houses, castles, etc., discuss colors, and use prepositions to talk about where you’re putting the blocks.  
 
  • Lacing Beads in a Box- By: Melissa and Doug- Practice fine motor skills by having your child string the beads on a string.  You can also talk about the colors, numbers, and shapes of the beads, take turns putting the beads on the string, and practice one to one correspondence while counting the items on the blocks.
 
  • Band in a Box Drum! Click! Clack! By Melissa and Doug- Kids can pretend like they are in a band, play the instruments along to music, dance.
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Food Frenzy – SLP Therapy

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Food Frenzy

By: Super Duper Food Frenzy is a fun and motivating app by Super Duper that targets following six important types of directions: Basic, Sequential, Quantitative, Spatial, Conditional, and Temporal. Students love the engaging food preparation and food delivery activities that feel more like a game, but help them gain crucial following directions skills.

How it Works

Students follow directions during 17 different activities such as cooking hamburgers, delivering food to cars and making tacos.  There are three levels of difficulty that range from one to three step directions. Students race against the clock to finish the direction in the allotted amount of time set by the therapist.  Various direction types can be customized to work on a student’s goals. Students are motivated by the entertaining graphics and visuals, as well as motivating sounds when a direction is followed correctly.

Outstanding Features

Food Frenzy allows you to import the names of all your students, creating settings that best fit the needs of each child including appropriate time limits, direction types, and difficulty levels. Repeat buttons are available so teaching can happen during the game. A quick play option is available when you want to use the game quickly without inputting student information.   Scores are reported for each child including the specific type of directions they did well on or had difficulty with.  Scores can be graphed to view progress over time.  Data can be emailed, printed, or exported so you can easily report progress.
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