Over my 16 years as an educator I’ve learned one valuable lesson: Never underestimate the power of a cute baby animal. This has proved true for working with angry five year olds who have difficulty regulating their emotions (somehow looking at pictures of baby animals can sometimes immediately cause a child to relax).
So a few years ago when I saw a Ready to Read pack of Zoo Born books I immediately grabbed it because I figured at some point there would be a student who would want to read them, or just look at the pictures. [Read more…]
One of my favorite new children’s books is 
Sometimes when I am working with Joey it is easy to forget that there are other aspects of communicating with an AAC device that we don’t naturally think about. The device gives Joey access to words, which makes it easy to focus on the words themselves. After all, words are how we communicate.
Last week 
