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When you are an in-home therapist, your body is often a playground.
Am I right??
If you’ve done home-based speech therapy before, you understand how much these little ones love to move.
Which is why it is so important to be able to provide sensory-based sessions for these...
Let’s talk about using sensory strategies in a clinic setting.
As the owner of a private practice, I understand how easy this sounds in theory but can often be hard to implement in reality.
When I talk about implementing a sensory based approach in a clinic setting, I’m...
How do I bring up autism to families?
This is a great question. And the truth is…
I don’t believe there is one perfect way.
When we try to use a one-size fits all approach to bringing up autism to different families, it usually blows up in our faces.
But before we go into...
"The beauty of knowing about sensory is that I can finally unmask and truly know myself." - Bettina Lopez-Lam.
I met Bettina when she enrolled in my Sensory Certificate Course for SLPs in 2021.
At the time, Bettina did not know she was Autistic. Bettina was in the process of...
When you have a sensory avoider, it affects you everyday.
It affects how you plan your weekend, your trips out of town, and even your trips to the grocery store.
And I can speak to this personally as one of my kids is a sensory avoider.
So let’s define what it means to be...