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Take a peek at all of the amazing cognitive and social skills children learn when playing together!

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Why Inclusive Learning Spaces Benefit Everyone!

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Why Inclusive Learning Spaces Benefit Everyone!

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Gwendolyn Strong Foundation on Instagram: "Only if we have access to inclusive spaces can we have access to each other! The parents I have met and worked with over the last 20+ years (as an educator and then a parent to both disabled and non-disabled children) all share a similar value in raising kind humans. We look at our tiny child and understand our shared responsibility to nurture compassion, empathy, resilience, respect, and inclusion - and we try our best. But… how can children truly understand if they have limited opportunities to practice?

And that is why a community playground must be an inclusive playground! For all of us!!! 🫶"

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1,838 likes, 12 comments - nevergiveuporg on April 26, 2024: "Only if we have access to inclusive spaces can we have access to each other! The parents I have met and worked with over the last 20+ yea...". 

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Check out this post to learn more about the double empathy problem, and how inclusion through SHARE Space will help build empathy for everyone!

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Inclusion Therapy Services | Neurodiversity-Affirming SLP on Instagram: "Do you know about Autistic Culture?

Many Autistic adults have shared that they feel comfortable communicating with other Autistic individuals. The communicative expectations and norms are different, leading to fewer conversational breakdowns and better understanding, compared to communicating with an Allistic peer. 

Terra Vance, founder and CEO of Neuroclastic, says, " If our communication style is the minority way of communicating, then how we inherently need to relate to others is pathologized as being wrong and a deficiency. From that angle, there is nothing that we can do other than to apologize in perpetuity and interact in a way that others deem broken, disordered, and lacking. We are told that we lack empathy, we lack interrelational intuition, and we lack social skills. No one is expected to accommodate our communication styles, so all the work is on us to constantly override what comes naturally.

But we know that autistic people do communicate differently and in ways that make sense to other autistic people. This is not to say that every autistic person seamlessly communicates with other autistic people, but we do communicate with each other much more fluently than others communicate with us. Our instincts do not fail us as often."

If you don't already, go follow @neuroclastic today!! 
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What questions do you have about The Double Empathy Problem?

#Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #ASD #NeurodiversityAffirming #NDAffirmingCare #SensoryProcessing #SpeechTherapy #SLP #DifferentNotLess #BehaviorIsCommunication #AllCommunicationIsValid"

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117 likes, 3 comments - inclusion.slp on April 9, 2024: "Do you know about Autistic Culture?

Many Autistic adults have shared that they feel comfortable communicating with other Autistic indivi...". 

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Lauren Flack | The Channing’s Joy Foundation ☻ on Instagram: "Inclusion isn’t just beneficial for our special needs kids. Adapting the environment so everyone can participate shouldn’t be an option. It should be a requirement. 

#channingsjoy #nonspeakingautism #choosetoinclude #nonspeaking #specialneedsfamily #autism #apraxia #apraxiaofspeech #autism_lovers #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #thisisautism #specialneedsmom #asd #lovewhatmatters #autismawareness #advocate #motherhood #momlife #autismacceptance #inclusion #channingsjoyfoundation #inclusiveeducation"

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1,102 likes, 47 comments - laurensflack on May 5, 2024: "Inclusion isn’t just beneficial for our special needs kids. Adapting the environment so everyone can participate shouldn’t be an opti...". 

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Social play activities helps children develop executive functioning!

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Social play activities helps children develop executive functioning!

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Read up to learn what important executive functioning skills we develop when we play in groups with our peers!

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This article shows the positive impacts that peer models have on the language use and play development of children with language impairments

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We're so excited to introduce SHARE Space; our new collaborative therapy environment for our clients! Read to find out more!

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Find out why we’re so excited for collaborative learning opportunities in SHARE Space!

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Child-Led Play and Gestalt Language Development

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Child-Led Play and Gestalt Language Development

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Why might we use Child-Led Play with our Gestalt language learners?

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Check out this post for when and why we use both!

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 Serena Murison on Instagram: "There is a time and place for both child led play and adult led play. 

That said, both styles have different functions that serve to give us information about the child we are playing with. When we as adults lead the play, we have an idea in mind for specifically what skills we want to accomplish and target throughout the play. In many instances, adult led play provides children with examples of structure and organization of tasks. For older children with more developed communication skills, adult led play can easily transform into a turn-taking exchange in which both members feel equally involved. 

For younger children with less developed communication and play skills, child led play allows for ample exploration of the creative play space and begins the establishment for trust between themselves and the adult they are playing with. 

For us, child led activities serve as the foundation of our relationships with our kids. As our relationships grow and strengthen, we begin slowly introducing adult led activities as well."

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5,671 likes, 44 comments - play_spark on January 31, 2024: "There is a time and place for both child led play and adult led play. 

That said, both styles have different functions that serve to giv...". 

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Inspire, Don't Require: Following a Child's Interests

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Inspire, Don't Require: Following a Child's Interests

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How does reducing demands and finding motivating activities inspire more communication?

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Want a Child to Communicate? Inspire, Don’t Require.

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Check out this video and its caption for more on social games and how they are SUCH a useful part of naturalistic therapy!

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 Nicole Casey | Gestalt Language & AAC SLP on Instagram: "I have yet to meet a child who doesn’t like this game 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

So often we think that we need to have a big sensory gym with tons of equipment to provide enriching sensory experiences for our movement and pressure seekers…but the reality is- we can provide this input anytime! I love this version of the sneeze game because it allows me to give squeezes, and do some active/rough and tumble play that so many of my sensory seekers crave!

The sneeze game is something that every SLP has done at some point or another, and that’s for a lot of reasons. It encourages playful interactions, and after a few rounds- kids are having so much fun that they usually start to spontaneously direct us to continue sneezing!

I love to do this game in different ways, too, such as by putting random toys on my head and sneezing them off. Or holding a bunch of shredded paper (think leftover from an Easter basket) to blow all over the place as I sneeze! Sometimes my sneezes even knock down a whole block tower! The sillier the better with this one.

Do you think your child or student would like this game? Want more ideas on active, people play, to support GLPs? Comment PLAY for my free guide :)

#gestaltlanguageprocessing #speechtherapy #slp #asc #sensoryplay #ndaffirming #childledplay #autismmom"

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1,061 likes, 118 comments - connectionsspeechpathology on April 9, 2024: "I have yet to meet a child who doesn’t like this game 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

So often we think that we need to have a big sensory gym w...". 

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What is naturalistic intervention, what are its benefits, and how can we use it in our therapy sessions?

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Learn what, why, and how we use play-based therapy in our sessions!