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Salvage Your Clinical Session: 3 Ways to Reverse Learned Helplessness
What is Learned Helplessness? For students who have absorbed the message that they’re doomed to fail, instilling realistic optimism can be a game-changer. Educators and therapists have long advocated reframing “failure” positively as a “learning opportunity,” but when...
7 Fun Holiday Activities to Keep Pace With Your Child’s Speech Therapy
Downtime or Creative Time? It goes without saying that filling this holiday season with joy requires more imagination and creativity than in the past. Especially when it comes to making it a special experience for our children, including those who receive online...
5 Effective Ways for Therapists to Cope With Stress Over the Holidays
Holiday Stress Research reveals that holiday season stress can be overwhelming and debilitating. No one is immune. But the good news about holiday stress is that it’s predictable. Unlike other types of stress we encounter, holiday stress generally has a beginning and...
Leverage Failure’s 3 Hidden Benefits to Transform Therapeutic Outcomes
Failure Isn’t What You Think It Is Our culture prides itself on its heavy focus on success and its avoidance of discussing failure. Everywhere we turn, we are met head-on by the unyielding drive for perfection. When is the last time that you saw anyone celebrate...
How SPED Directors Can Remove the 5 Communication Barriers With Parents
Effective school-to-home communication has been proven to positively impact academic and emotional outcomes for students. Evidence shows that students whose families are involved are more engaged in the classroom and more likely to succeed academically. For students...
7 Ways to Overcome Disruptive Behaviors Subverting the Therapy Session
The growing popularity of teletherapy, while an extremely welcome development, has presented a whole range of challenges for therapists. Often the most difficult is how to react when children misbehave during the session. When things don’t go as planned, it is...
5 Keys to Cultivating Your Resilience in the Post-Pandemic World
What is Resilience? According to Psychology Today, “Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise...
The Burgeoning Therapist Shortage: 5 Ways Clinicians Escape Burnout
A Silent But Mushrooming Problem Mental health challenges across the country have risen during the pandemic. According to a survey conducted by the CDC in June 2020, over 40% of adults were struggling with substance use or a mental health issue like depression,...
5 Ways for SPED Directors to Leverage a Crisis For Professional Growth
A Silver Lining in the Crisis Crisis, turbulence, and uncertainty have become the new norm for SPED Directors as they navigate a pandemic, racial justice protests, and the politicization of issues as disparate as critical race theory and school masking policies....
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