For the past four summers I have been employed as a Child Development Worker with the Manitoba Government’s Children’s disABILITY Services department. (If you would like to read more about it you can check out a post I wrote at the beginning of the summer). One of my little guys has been with me on and off for 3 summers now and our main goal over the years has been communication. Larry* is currently still waiting for a full assessment of his specific disability but the doctors that he has seen have mentioned both Cerebral Palsy and Autism… Read More
Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday! Mirror
February is here and I’m excited to be writing my third Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday post! I hope that this focus on a specific WBT strategy is helpful to those of you who are wishing to learn more about how a certain strategy may work and what my personal experience with it has been. Last week I highlighted “Class-Yes”, this week I would like to introduce you to the WBT strategy of “Mirror”. (I realize that my introduction of these strategies are not in any specific order). “Mirror” is a classroom management strategy that allows for us,… Read More