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Building executive function in children with autism/special needs

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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

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InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning

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How Occupational Therapy Helps with Sensory Integration Issues

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Myth-Weavers is an online community that focuses on play by post gaming.

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The Tooth Fairy 103 Page Printable Preschool/Kindergarten Educational Pack From a teeth brushing schedule to good/bad foods sorting, this printable pack has so many different activities. 103 pages of them to be exact! There are several different no prep worksheets as well to practice all those basic skills!

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ABCya! | Educational Computer Games and Apps for Kids

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ABCya! | Educational Computer Games and Apps for Kids

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ABCya! * ABCya! * Learning Games and Apps for Kids

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Educational games for grades PreK through 6 that will keep kids engaged and having fun. Topics include math, reading, typing, just-for-fun logic games... and more!

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Use BBC Bitesize to help with your homework, revision and learning. Find free videos, step-by-step guides, activities and quizzes by level and subject.

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The developmental stages in this progress checker have been produced by speech and language therapists based on research and their knowledge of communication development. They have been cross-referenced by I CANs speech and language therapists against a range of sources including:

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Supplementing Teaching approaches | Talking Point

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Supplementing Teaching approaches | Talking Point

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Supplementing Teaching approaches | Talking Point

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Many of the suggestions for useful teaching or therapy approaches when working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) are simply good teaching or therapy practice. What is important though, for many children and young people, is that these elements of good practice are 'packaged' and 'embedded'.

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Speech Therapy Worksheets and Forms | Mommy Speech Therapy

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Speech Therapy Worksheets and Forms | Mommy Speech Therapy

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Mommy Speech Therapy - Thoughts on speech & language development

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Helpful documents and activities for you to download to help you work with your child in different areas of their speech

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Most children develop speech and language skills within a specific age range. A child who takes longer to learn a skill may have a problem.

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What to Know About Speech Therapy | What Speech Therapists Do

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What to Know About Speech Therapy | What Speech Therapists Do

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If your child has trouble reading and spelling, speech therapy may not seem like the obvious answer. Many people think that speech therapists only work with people who have trouble making certain sounds (articulation) or who have stutters or lisps.

Speech therapists do handle those speech issues. But they also help kids with other kinds of problems with spoken and written language, such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and auditory processing disorder. In fact, a speech therapist is more accurately called a speech-language pathologist (SLP).

How Speech Therapy Works

SLPs figure out what kind of language problem a student has. They determine what's causing it and decide on the best treatment. SLPs may help kids build skills by working with them one-on-one, in small groups, or in the classroom.

SLPs can help with:

Articulation problems: Not speaking clearly and making errors in sounds.

Fluency problems: Trouble with the flow of speech, such as stuttering.

Resonance or voice problems: Trouble with voice pitch, volume and quality.

Oral feeding problems: Difficulty with eating, swallowing and drooling.

SLPs can help treat:

Receptive language problems: Trouble understanding (receiving) language.

Expressive language problems: Trouble speaking (expressing) language.

Pragmatic language problems: Trouble using language in socially appropriate ways.

SLPs use strategies tailored for each child's particular challenge. Strategies might include:

Language intervention activities: These activities build skills in a variety of ways, including modeling and giving kids feedback. The therapist might use pictures and books or play-based therapy. She may also use language drills to practice skills.

Articulation therapy: The SLP models the sounds the child has difficulty with. This might include demonstrating how to move the tongue to create specific sounds.

Feeding and swallowing therapy: The SLP teaches the child exercises to strengthen the muscles of the mouth. This might include facial massage and various tongue, lip and jaw exercises. She might also use different food textures to encourage awareness during eating and swallowing.

The SLP must have at least a master's degree in the field of speech-language pathology. It's best to look for a speech therapist who is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). This means the therapist has passed a national exam for certification.

Licensing requirements vary by state. Sometimes speech assistants, who have an associate's or bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology, help a speech therapist with services.

The Benefits of Speech Therapy

Speech therapy can help kids learn to speak more clearly. This helps them feel more confident and less frustrated about speaking to others. Kids who have language issues can benefit socially, emotionally and academically from speech therapy.

For kids with reading issues such as dyslexia, speech therapy can help them hear and distinguish specific sounds in words: the word bat breaks down into b, a, and t sounds. This can improve reading comprehension skills and encourage kids to read.

Speech therapy is especially beneficial when kids begin early in life. In one study, 70 percent of preschool kids with language issues who went through speech therapy showed improvement in language skills.

Results You Can Expect From Speech Therapy

Your child's work with a speech therapist may last for months or even for a few years. It depends on your child's needs. You will probably see improvement in your child's issues. Remember, though, that therapy can't "cure" your child. The underlying speech or language issue will still be there.

The therapist should give you and your child strategies to deal with obstacles more effectively. She will likely give you activities to practice at home to reinforce the skills your child is learning. Kids who make the most progress tend to be those whose get involved in their treatment.

It's important that the speech therapist and your child are a good match. The speech therapist should have experience working with kids with your child's specific issue. Speech therapy is just one way to help a child with learning issues related to language and speech. For more ideas, consider other special services.

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What You Need to Know About Speech Therapy

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If your child has trouble reading and spelling, speech therapy may not seem like the obvious answer. Many people think that speech therapists only work with people who have trouble making certain sounds (articulation) or who have stutters or lisps. Speech therapists do handle those speech issues.

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Words, Phrases, Sentences, & Paragraphs Grouped by Place & Syllable

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Words, Phrases, Sentences, & Paragraphs Grouped by Place & Syllable

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As promised here are the words for your unlimited use.

If you know others who can use our lists...

... please share this page using the share buttons above.

We also offer a free 5 part video series on Teaching the Z Sound.

Get thousands of targeted words, phrases, sentences, and stories, with Word Vault Essential.

Z Words

Initial Z by Syllables

Medial Z by Syllables

Final Z by Syllables

Initial Z Phrases and Sentences

Medial Z Phrases and Sentences

Final Z Phrases and Sentences

Z Reading Paragraphs

Flowers Galore

Zach went over to Zoe's house on Thursday. She was outside with the hose. Her house had tons of flowers around it. There must have been a zillion. It was so beautiful that Zach thought she deserved a prize for the most beautiful flower garden ever!

Zoe took Zach around each of the flower beds and told him what the flowers were called. He didn't sneeze once. His favorites were the zinnias. They felt so soft on his fingers when he touched them and, besides that, zinnias were the coolest name. Any words that started with a Z like "Zach" were the coolest.

Zoe asked him if we wanted to help water the flowers. He took the hose and began watering. When he got over to the zinnias they were surrounded by bees. Zach had zero love for bees, so he dropped the hose and ran as fast as he could. He zigged and zagged, but there was still one bee zooming after him. Zach yelled, "Please, please, please don't sting me!" Just in time, Zoe zoomed in with her fly swatter and zapped that bee to the ground.

Zoe shrugged her shoulders and said, "You want to go in and have some cookies?" Zach nodded and said, "Yes please!"

Zorro's Treasure

There once was a lizard name Zorro. He used to live all alone in the desert, but now he lived in the park with a few other lizard families.

He was an unusual lizard because he loved to collect human things. Zorro even had his days planned out so he could be productive and find lots of things.

Monday was his lazy day. You could say it was his day for "picking daisies."

Tuesday was his exercise day. He used his human items and lifted them as weights so he would be the strongest lizard. He never wanted to find something he couldn't carry back to his cave. He would be doomed!

Wednesdays, he searched for food. He would find little beans, bits of cheese, and lost raisins. Sometimes he found broken cookies and colorful candies. One time he even found a whole slice of cheesecake. He had to be "Zorro" strong that day to lift the Tupperware off so he could eat it.

Thursdays, he got "in the zone" and hunted for treasure. So far, his collection consisted of lost keys, broken glasses, missing puzzle pieces, rusty scissors, buttons, and a men's razor. His prized possession was a soft, nameless, fuzzy thing he used as a pillow. It made his nights so relaxing and wonderful!

Friday was his washing day. He would sing music all day long and wash his new found treasures.

On Saturdays, he opened his cave and let the other lizards in to look at his prizes. It was zero cost to enter, but if they wanted to eat some of his food, they had to bring him a treasure to keep. Those were his best deals!

His week ended with Sunday. He would pick fresh flowers, eat dessert, and do a puzzle. He loved to think about how he did not miss the desert at all! You could say he was one zany lizard!

The Zillion Blizzard

Zander was in the kitchen with his sister Zaria. She was making a present for him.

On the counter was the blender, raspberry juice, refried beans, cheddar cheese, pretzels, leftover tacos, raisins, crackers, zucchini, and several seasonings. Zaria began dumping things in the blender.

First she put in the beans, cheese, and pretzels and mashed them down with a spoon. Next she put in the tacos, raisins, and crackers. Then she let the blender zing for about 10 seconds. Zaria cut up the zucchini with scissors and dropped it in too. Then she said, "Hand me those seasonings!" so Zander did. She sprinkled them in a crazy zig zag pattern over the top of the blender and Zander sneezed the biggest sneeze of his life!

Zaria looked up with a crazy look on her face and said, "Sorry Zander, but I know you are going to love this blizzard! It's called the Zillion - because you can put a zillion things in it and it's still to die for!"

She poured the raspberry juice in until it reached the top and the blender zinged again. "It needs one more thing," she said.

She took a frozen slice of cheesecake out of the freezer and put it in the blender. It zinged again and Zaria poured the mixture into a glass. Then she held it out for Zander.

Zander held it up to his nose and sneezed again. He did not want to drink it, but Zaria wanted him to so bad that she said please about a zillion times. He did not want her to be sad so he plugged his nose and took a drink. First he tasted the refried beans, then the raisins, and then everything else followed.

The Zillion blizzard was the perfect name for it because it felt like there was a horrible blizzard going on in his stomach. He was about to hurl so he zoomed to the bathroom. He leaned over the toilet and thought, "My sister is right. This is to die for!"

This list of functional words was professionally selected to be the most useful for a child or adult who has difficulty with producing the "Z" sound.

We encourage you to use this list when practicing at home.

Doing home practice will help your child make much faster progress toward correct production.

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) are only able to see students/clients 30-60 mins (or less) per week.

This is not enough time for your child to overcome an articulation disorder with the "Z" sound. But with high caseloads...

...it's all SLPs can do.

There's only so much time in the day.

Every day that your child goes without practice it becomes more and more difficult to correct an "Z" error because he/she continues to say it incorrectly.

What's the Pic Articulation is a revolutionary app for speech therapy!

We know life is busy, but if you're reading this you're probably someone who cares about helping their loved one as much as you can.

Practice 5-10 minutes whenever you can, but try to do it on a consistent basis (daily).

Please, please, please use this list to practice.

It will be a great benefit to you and your loved one's progress.

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250+ Z Words, Phrases, Sentences, & Paragraphs Grouped by Place & Syllable

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As promised here are the words for your unlimited use. If you know others who can use our lists... ... please share this page using the share buttons above. We also offer a free 5 part video series on Teaching the Z Sound. Get thousands of targeted words, phrases, sentences, and stories, with Word Vault Essential.

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Planets For Kids - Solar System Facts and Astronomy

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Planets For Kids - Solar System Facts and Astronomy

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Welcome to Planets for Kids

I really hope you enjoy the information that I have provided on this website. You will find lots of information about our solar system with lots of questions and answers and games for you to play. We also have a color in section where you can download pictures and have fun. Remember everything here is "Kid-friendly" so lets get started....

We have nine planets in our Solar System. These planets circle around the sun (as I'm sure you know already) this is called orbits.

A lot of astronomy people like to think of the Solar System been made up in two parts We have the Inner Solar System which has Mercury, Venus, Earth and not forgetting Mars. These are closest to the sun and are called the terrestrial planets simply because the have very solid rocky surfaces.

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Planets For Kids - Solar System Facts and Astronomy

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I really hope you enjoy the information that I have provided on this website. You will find lots of information about our solar system with lots of questions and answers and games for you to play. We also have a color in section where you can download pictures and have fun.

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From Words To Images: Understanding The Dyslexic Mind | Reading Rockets

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From Words To Images: Understanding The Dyslexic Mind | Reading Rockets

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Dyslexia is considered the most common learning disorder and yet it is often undiagnosed and rarely understood. This hour, we look to better understand the dyslexic mind. We explore what it's like to live with dyslexia and we learn how to best support children who have difficulty reading -- and what could happen when they don't get the right supports. We hear from a journalist about her reporting on and her personal experience with dyslexia. We learn from leading researchers and educators in the field. And we talk with an actor about his struggles with the learning disability and his journey from prison to behind the camera. Do you live with dyslexia or are you the parent of a child who does? What has been your experience?

Check out more of our selected reading news stories. Each weekday, we gather interesting news headlines about reading and early education. You can also sign up for our daily email service (or a weekly digest), to get the latest reading headlines sent directly to you.

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From Words To Images: Understanding The Dyslexic Mind

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Dyslexia is considered the most common learning disorder and yet it is often undiagnosed and rarely understood. This hour, we look to better understand the dyslexic mind. We explore what it's like to live with dyslexia and we learn how to best support children who have difficulty reading -- and what could happen when they don't get the right supports.

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Generate animations and graphic support for your classes

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Social Emotional Learning: Social Awareness Exercise - First Book PSA - YouTube

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Social Emotional Learning: Social Awareness Exercise - First Book PSA - YouTube

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Social Emotional Learning: Social Awareness Exercise - First Book PSA

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Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, helps children handle emotions, set goals, and make good decisions. Educators can find books and free resources to promote SEL in their classrooms at www.firstbook.org/health . A public service announcement in English from the nonprofit First Book, funded by Molina Healthcare.

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Seesaw - Student Driven Digital Portfolios

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Seesaw - Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication. For iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Chromebooks and Computers with Chrome or Firefox. Free for teachers!

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ENCOURAGING A GROWTH MINDSET IN OUR STUDENTS

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ENCOURAGING A GROWTH MINDSET IN OUR STUDENTS

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http://yourbrainhealth.com.au/8-ways-to-encourage-a-growth-mindset-in-kids/

https://homeschoolingwithdyslexia.com/how-to-teach-kids-about-the-power-of-a-growth-mindset/

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http://livingwithadhd.co.uk/teacher/teacher-resources

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Coloured Overlay
"It was the most important moment of my life. For the first time in my life I could see text clear as glass. I was astounded…. All I could think to say was 'How did they do that?'"

The above quotation (from "Reading Through Colour", by Professor Arnold Wilkins, Wiley 2003) of the transformation of one teenage boy's experience through the simple procedure of changing the background colour of the text he was attempting to read is in itself startling; but perhaps more significant still is the fact that this is not an exceptionally unusual experience

Claro speak and claro read app for smartphones

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DIFFERENCIATION IN THE CLASSROOM

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