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 week,
It's been three months since our team transitioned to virtual services, and we have to say, our students have pretty much become pros at navigating all of the new technology. While we are excited about our return to in-person services, we have also loved the creative challenge of finding new ways to make music interesting,
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 the Episode Episode 9 of Sing to Speech presents part two of Oral Motor Planning for Vowels, a follow-up to Episode 3 of the series. Using an original song, “Listen to Me Sing My Vowels,” this episode focuses on the vowel sounds, “uh” and “oh.” When combined with the vowel sounds
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
