Here, belatedly, is Zack's progress report from the Spring semester at UNR. He enjoyed working with Alyssa and Sam and is already 1/2 way through the summer session. A recent milestone is that Zack rented a car and got a parking permit (for our apartment complex) for the rental by himself. (The van is at …
Category: change and improvement
Friyay!
The main part of this post was to show how much I love this time of year in kindergarten. I have a group of active and social boys this year and am thrilled that they've learned enough independence to work these fun centers on their own. I really appreciate all the TPT teachers who make …
A van Saturday
Last night we had tons of fun bowling with the UNR Not Alone Aphasia group sponsored by the NSSLHA chapter. This morning, Zack's busy prepping the van for the bed build out. He was hoping to have the frame welded but is resigned to doing it himself. He is a carpenter, after all. Though numbers …
Seesaw for engagement!
Lots of tweets about using the Seesaw app in elementary classrooms focus on seamlessly it connects school to home. And I agree. But I often use it in my kindergarten classroom to increase engagement and buy in. Today a guided reading group was a little squirrely. It seems Halloween is right around the corner and …
Yet continued
Despite my endorphin filled post about speedwork on Tuesday, I am not the speed demon I might have once almost not nearly been. And this was proven in the red and black of the timing clock on Saturday as I tried (I mean, I did actually run) to run one mile as fast as I …
August 2018 UNR speech therapy progress report
Zack's on the phone with a friend right now. That hasn't really happened since early April 2015. He's just sitting on the deck, drinking coffee, talking to James about van renovations. I'm not sure how much James is understanding, although it seems like he's doing most of the talking, but they're talking away. Phone conversations …
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Spring UNR evaluation results
Receiving the summer pre-assessment results in the mail jolted me to the realization that I hadn't yet posted this one. Zack's making tons of progress during summer session - working especially on verbs and pronouns in a sentence structure. He's working with 2 new (to him) students and we're super grateful that he gets therapy …
another UNR speech evaluation & skiing in BC
After a long break between semesters, Zack is back in session at UNR with 2 new student clinicians, Emily and Angelie! Here's his current Reassessment and Treatment Plan. unr spring 2018 If you haven't seen these yet, our friends Dave and Ben wrote some blog posts about our week in British Columbia, which was amazing! …
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Fall term at UNR
Zack was able to start the Fall Term seeing a new speech student, Hanna, twice a week. Here is her assessment. UNR Reassessment September 6, 2017 We're feeling doubly blessed because we learned last week that he'll be able to work with Jordan, whom we met at the Aphasia Recovery Connection gathering in Vegas this …
Summer Speech data
We just got Zack's final evaluation from the UNR summer term. Zack summary of progress Summer 2017 I don't know why it won't post as an image but let me know if you cant click on this and get to the pdf. I also wanted to give a big shout out to Zack, of course. …
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