As a SLP, I work PRN providing speech therapy for a company that contracts into nursing homes/SNFs. Our patient caseload is heavily weighted for cognitive therapy specifically memory, problem solving, sequencing, and attention. These qualities are ALL necessary for a patient to complete simple ADLs (activities of daily living) such as eating, brushing their teeth, getting dressed as well as…
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It’s the last week of speech before Christmas break and today was the day to just have a ball (ornament pun)… So we got out the iPad once again and got busy talking about Santa’s Hair with this language companion from Heather Strebel. You can visit her blog HERE. We used the Toca Boca version of the Santa Hair Salon but…
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Counting down! Four more days to Christmas Break… Today I decided to get technologically coooool. After all, kids LOVE technology. I just rarely find time to really get it into my therapy sessions. After downloading this Christmas Attributes Freebie by Kim Lewis the Activity Tailor from Creative Common Attribution, I hesitated a couple of weeks…..but I said HEY! It’s the last week…
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I am fortunate enough to have a classroom right next to the bathrooms. This placement potential is huge I tell ya! The teachers I work with are so dedicated to their instruction time that they use any transition time as an additional learning opportunity. My first year on this campus, our reading specialist had a word wall outside my door….
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We all have our favorite, go-to items whether at home or at work. These things are familiar and usually are something you have used a lot. Something that is reliable and flexible. I have some therapy materials that are that way for me. Any time I show up at a facility to work PRN, these are the things I scan…
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