If you are a parent of a child with Autism, then you may have a struggle with teaching your child hygiene. In today’s episode we discuss how to make bath or shower time successful! Let’s go! Love, Hallie & Lily PS – Sorry for the blurry video. We started using a new software to record Continue reading
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A New Year Challenge…
Everyone…okay, not EVERYONE, but many of us set out with each new year with goals or resolutions in mind. I know some people despise this and feel like it sets you up for failure. For me, I feel like it’s a natural time to hit the reset button. There are many other times throughout the Continue reading
Episode 52: How To Get Over The Homework Hurdle
Is homework a constant struggle in your household? Do you just want to pull your hair out and shout at your child’s teacher? When we chatted about this over on our facebook page some of you said your 5 year old comes home with 3 hours of homework per night. First of all, that is Continue reading
The difference between an IEP and 504 Plan
Warning!!! We are getting a little technical today. It’s not that often that we get into the nitty gritty technical stuff with the fancy wording… It’s funny really because when I worked in the school county we would sit in meetings, throwing around these terms, not realizing it was like a foreign language to parents who Continue reading
Homework: Is it REALLY worth it?
When it comes to homework for ANY child, I pose the question, is it REALLY worth it? Here’s what over 300 of you had to say… Does your child with autism get assigned homework? Posted by Hallie Bulkin on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 After all, homework is supposed to be reinforcement of what the child is learning Continue reading
3 Tips To Keep Your Wandering Child with Autism Safe
If you have a child who tries to escape or elope when in public, from his/her classroom at school or even from your own home when you take two minutes to use the bathroom, watch today’s video. It will give you life-saving tips for your child that will help them be prepared for a worst Continue reading
How I Start Each Year…
Reflecting on 2015… Every year I take some time to reflect on the previous year before deciding what I want the coming year to look like. Do you do this? I actually start this is December…reflecting on how the prior 11 months went for my family, business, health goals and more. If you don’t but Continue reading
Top 10 Posts of 2015
I cannot believe it is already December 31, 2015! Where did 2015 go? I was looking at the top 10 posts on our Little Sprout Speech blog and wanted to share them with you. They mostly center around autism. There are a few related to apraxia, potty training, popular apps, popular children’s books, and IEP Continue reading
Episode 50: Fun ways to teach opposites!
Silvia explained that her 4 year old daughter was nonverbal and now at 5 is speaking (yay!) but has a hard time learning certain concepts, like opposites (hot/cold, in/out, empty/full, etc). Here are three tips on how to use your every day items and activities to teach these concepts in a fun way! Love, Hallie
A trip to the Post office
Today’s guest post is by Katrina Maria Gelderbloem. She has a powerful message to share so please do pass this along! —- So for anyone else this would be easy to do. Right? I collected Clayton from school and drove into the car park outside the post office, parked in the disabled bay ( Continue reading