Speech & Occupational Therapy!

I wanted to share these pictures to show you some of the other things that we do during our school day. We love Speech Therapy and learn so much there. Not only do our students get to go to the Speech room (which we call "The Talking Place"), but our Speech therapists also come into our room for Speech Therapy. Below, Ms. Shephard, the Speech paraprofessional, works with our students in our classroom!

On this particular day, we read a story called "Pancakes, Pancakes" by Eric Carle. Ms. Shephard created a great powerpoint presentation introducing some of the vocabulary words from the story. The students really enjoyed this lesson! Thanks so much Ms. Shephard for your hard work preparing this lesson for us!

We love our Occupational Therapist, Ms. LaVerne (in the far left corner of the picture below). We have a great time when she comes to our classroom and the students work very hard for her during their individual Occupational Therapy sessions. Ms. Malcom worked with Ms. LaVerne two years ago and she is definitely one of Ms. Malcom's favorite Occupational Therapists. Ms. Malcom was so happy when she found out that Ms. LaVerne was going to be our Occupational Therapist at South Salem!

Ms. Adams is our Speech Language Pathologist at South Salem. She is very knowledgable and has provided Speech Therapy to people for a long time. Ms. Adams is very kind and patient with our students. The students love going to Speech Therapy, in her room, when it is their turn to go.

For the last couple of weeks, Ms. Adams has been working with our students on how to say and sign "I want ____", "I eat ____", as well as answer "Yes" and "No" appropriately. Below, Joyria works with Ms. Adams on signing "I eat ___".

All of our kids have improved, already this year, thanks to the hard work of all of our therapists. Thanks to all of you!!