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Renovate smart with these cool home office ideas. A happy space is a productive space.  6 Ways to Renovate Your Home Office Space If your home office lacks inspiration, organization or convenience, do something about it — like one of these cool home office ideas. A relatively simple do-it-yourself project transforms your office from second-rate to top of the line. 1. Install a Floating Shelf   Keep important but lesser used office materials on a high floating shelf centered above your home office desk. Because this is an unusual placement, make it a design accent by matching the color of...

Incorporating adapted music materials across the school day is easy using principles of music therapy such as ‘receptive’, or listening based, and ‘active’, playing based lessons. These ideals, coupled with special education principals such as wait-time and student choice, can yield to student cognitive, communicative, emotional, physical and social growth across the school day! Adapted Music Materials Classroom Song Choice Board Song Board One of the most used musical materials in my classroom is an oversized song choice board. This tool gives students the opportunity to choose songs to listen and sing. This simple creation allows students to work on...

Preparing for the school year can be tough, but organization tips can help! As SLPs, we have large caseloads that can feel overwhelming at times. Getting organized is an important step to starting the year off strong. Here are some organization tips for SLPs. IEP and MDT schedules help me stay organized. I make sure to include the case manager since they coordinate most of the meetings. LISTS Make a list of the IEP and MDT due dates you have for the upcoming year. I make my own document, but you can download the ultimate IEP binder here. This document...

Photographs by Olivia CrummOn the day she heard God tell her to buy a mountain, Tami Barthen already sensed that her life was on a spiritual upswing. She’d recently divorced and remarried, an improvement she attributed to following the voice of God. She’d quit traditional church and enrolled in a course on supernatural ministry, learning to attune herself to what she believed to be heavenly signs. During one worship service, a pastor had even singled her out in a prophecy: “There’s a double door opening for you,” he’d said.But it was not until two years later, in June of 2017,...

Blue Margarita Recipe – Nothing says summer like sipping cocktails and mocktails in the backyard. If you are ready to blend up a frozen margarita cocktail make this delicious blue drink. We blended the blue margarita. The drink recipe can be adapted (see notes) and it can be shaken. This is perfect if you prefer your drinks over ice instead of blended or frozen. Drinks like this are fun to make for summer party drinks, baby showers, bridal showers, celebrations, mermaid-themed parties, or just to enjoy at home. Affiliate links may be included in the post. By clicking the links...