skills

Preparing Your Child for School: Five Essential Skills to Practice

WATCH NOW In this video, Jennifer Hartman, an intervention specialist at Leetonia Schools, shares essential skills that can help prepare young children for school. Learn practical tips on task completion,...

iCan Shine Bike Camp Teaches Individuals to Ride a Two-Wheel Bicycle

WATCH NOW I Can Shine is an international nonprofit organization. We collaborate with local organizations and individuals, our program ‘hosts’, to conduct approximately 100 five-day ‘iCan’ programs in 35 States...

Summer Goals and Fun!

While summer represents a time for fun, it can also unearth challenges. Sometimes, togetherness is not always blissful, boredom can lead to destructive behaviors and a break from learning can...

Does Your Teen Struggle with Executive Function?

5 Executive Function Tips Are you seeing that your teen consistently struggles in the same areas: task initiation, time management, prioritization, and organization? Like any other subject in school, these...

Different Strokes: Using ABA to Teach Children Skills

Many years ago, professionals assumed that children with significant developmental disabilities were incapable of learning. As a result of extensive research and practical experience, we now understand that is not...

Independence and Self-Advocacy

Independence and Self-Advocacy Many years ago, I read a book by Jennie McCarthy. It was about her son and his journey with autism. Throughout the book, she referenced that her...

Using Tech to Help Develop Self-Advocacy Skills

Developing Self-Advocacy Skills with Tech The pencils, notebooks, paper, and backpacks have all been purchased. The first day excitement has come and gone, and maybe (fingers crossed), your child is...

Play the Building Blocks to Success

Play According to Forbes, (Oct, 2013), there are 10 skills that businesses look for in their employees: Ability to work in a team Ability to make decisions and solve problems...

Back Talk: 5 Ways to Help Your Child Practice Communication Skills at Home

I can no longer go into the therapy room with my kid. If I’m there, he’s done. Forget walking. Forget tasting new foods. And you can definitely forget using his...

Using Your Plan: Teaching Skills

Using Your Plan: Teaching Skills Once broad goals and behaviors of concern are identified, an assessment has been completed to determine the patterns affecting your child’s behavior, and the overall...