Why Your Students Need Sensory Rooms in Schools
Administrators, teachers, and parents often wonder: What exactly is a “sensory break?” How does one identify why and when students need one? How can special education programs provide sensory rooms…
Pointers for Your Winning Entry-Level Therapy Resume
Writing a resume or CV may seem about as fun and exciting as getting up early on a Saturday to prepare your taxes. While blindfolded. On a treadmill. But writing…
What Is Trauma-Informed Care?
Discover This Holistic Approach to Helping Students Heal and Succeed Faced with students’ challenging, disruptive, or aggressive behaviors, teachers, building staff, and administrators are often tempted to ask, “What’s wrong…
Here’s Help Translating School-Based Therapy “Alphabet Soup”
Imagine: It’s your first day in your brand-new school-based therapy job. The school psychologist pokes her head into your office. “Hi!” she says. “The MDT is meeting to discuss Amy…
How Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Transform Your Program and Budget
As a special education administrator, you walk a fine line between the perils of saying “yes” to everyone requesting related services for a student, and the potential consequences of saying…
Meet the Challenge of Your Entry-Level School-Based Therapy Job
Remember how busy, confusing, and overwhelming your first day of class could feel when you were a kid? When you’re brand-new in an entry-level school-based therapy job, you’re likely to…
Why Support for Therapists Must Be Acceptable and Accessible
We school-based therapists are helpers: We help students achieve their IEP goals by providing the related services they need to function and flourish. We help teachers and paraprofessionals accommodate students’…
What PA Act 18 Means for Crisis Management in Education
During the 1990s, several shootings at schools prompted efforts to create a “school shooter profile.” But lists of “warning signs” can lead to unfair labels for some students, including those…
Why Are More Clinicians Choosing Therapy in School Settings?
To (partially) quote Charles Dickens, now may be “the best of times and worst of times” to be in the therapy services field. Why the best? Because in the next…
Three Important Themes in Special Education Law from 2019
Keeping up with special education law is among the most challenging aspects of your job. Certainly, the COVID-19 pandemic has raised a host of questions about how programs can comply…