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2012 PAL Awards
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- “Thank you Sherry! You are a BIG help and Max adores you.”
Maria, mother of a 5 year-old boy
Fairfield, CT
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“Angelina Ballerina Dance with Me! Game” Wins PAL Award
I had a chuckle as I walked past a little girl in her fluffy pink tutu the other day at a local farmer’s market. She didn’t seem one bit overdressed in what had to be her precious dance outfit. Now … Continue reading
Richard Scarry’s Busytown Busy Busy Airport Game” Wins PAL Award
Want a great, flexible game that is loads of fun to use in Speech therapy sessions or family game night with your preschoolers? “Richard Scarry’s Busytown Busy Busy Airport Game” encourages pretend play within the game using props from Richard … Continue reading
Hands Off, Harry! by Rosemary Wells Wins PAL Award
Rosemary Wells has given us another gem–a book that entertains kids, teaches lessons and can be used with individual kids or a a classroom of kindergators! I have used this book many times already for speech therapy lessons teaching about … Continue reading
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Summer Speech Therapy On the Road
August is a big vacation month so let’s talk about how to keep the language learning going. When I go on vacation, I am constantly learning new and unique information about the area that I am visiting. On our recent … Continue reading
Kids Love PAL Award Book Winners
It’s always fun to test out my PAL Award winners with the grand kids so I brought along three of my recent favorites to test out with Caroline. Mom and Dad took a much deserved vacation alone, while Pop Pop … Continue reading
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New Books to Teach Articulation and Reading
At my latest visit to our public library, I started my hunt at the “New Books” section as usual. I came upon a new series of books that are designed by Child’s World to assist children in phonics development. Of … Continue reading
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Language Lesson for “Hands Off, Harry!” by Rosemary Wells
I have been using Rosemary Well’s newest book, “Hands Off, Harry!” for language lessons all week with kids who are on the autism spectrum or have language learning disabilities. What a terrific teaching tool! Since summer is a time for … Continue reading
Bloggers Win iPad2 and $1,000 For Their Charity
I just found out about an incredible opportunity for bloggers who promote education-related charities through social media. For the month of July, Bloganthropy.org is “partnering with P&G’s GIVE Education to honor another incredible Bloganthropy Blogger of the Month with an … Continue reading
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Short and Sweet Talk to Your Baby
In addition to your “running commentary” describing your activities like a reporter to your baby, you should have have some times of using short, tuneful, simple sentences such as “Up we go” or “Bounce up high.” Each activity—changing a diaper, … Continue reading
“Word On the Street Junior” Wins PAL Award
This “wacky war of words” was unique and got even more fun, the longer we played it. The street is divided for two teams and the letter tiles of the alphabet run down the median strip. A team selects a … Continue reading
