Dear Spectrum Community, It’s been three, long months since we closed our doors, and while we have loved staying connected online, we are counting down the days when we can see our community in person again! As New York State moves through the phases of Governor Cuomo’s reopening plan, we have been having lots of
Although we’ve been apart these past few months, our Spectrum community has continued to use the creative arts as a way to stay connected. We have been so impressed with the resilience and creativity we’ve seen in our students with this transition. This week we are thrilled to feature Josh Hauck. Josh is a talented musician,
About the Song In this Sing to Speech episode, we are bringing back our Blending Together song to once again target spelling and reading consonant vowel consonant (CVC) words— specifically those that contain the vowel letter, ‘u.’ As the music is easily memorized, students can practice this spelling/reading skill within music, while
Although we've been apart these past few months, our Spectrum community has continued to use the creative arts as a way to stay connected. We have been so impressed with the resilience and creativity we've seen in our students with this transition, and thought this was a perfect time to renew our popular "Student Spotlight" series! Each
About this Episode Fluency in speech can be targeted in a number of ways. A useful analogy that many Speech Therapists utilize is one of a smooth road (to represent smooth speech), a bumpy road (to represent something resembling a stutter), and a road with a roadblock (to represent when our speech
When you begin an art project, what inspires you? “What inspired me is my surroundings. People, nature, objects, all sorts of things around me. When I see them, I start to convert them in my head to be creative and make them my own, with the existing basic ideas of my creation still
About the Episode Episode 7 of the Sing to Speech series focuses on conversational skills to use when learning something about a friend. The original song, “I Wanna Know About You,” provides important facets of social interaction in the chorus. For each verse, a key question is introduced, such as, “What’s your
Although we've been apart these past few months, our Spectrum community has continued to use the creative arts as a way to stay connected. We have been so impressed with the resilience and creativity we've seen in our students with this transition, and thought this was a perfect time to renew our popular "Student Spotlight" series! Each
Collaboration with Flower City Yoga Spectrum Creative Arts and Flower City Yoga have teamed up to provide this series of mindfulness and movement videos to further your practice of self-care. In these videos, you’ll see guided practices led by Nora Doebrich, MPS, RYT. Nora is the owner of and a yoga instructor at Flower City
About the Song In this Sing to Speech episode, we are targeting spelling and reading consonant vowel consonant (CVC) words— specifically those that contain the vowel letter, ‘A.’ The first part of this song explains the steps to reading a three letter word including the lyrics, “I see three letters, I’m going
