Summer Fun: Water Fun
Playing in the water in the summer can not only help your child beat the heat, but also work on their social and language skills! Water activities are also a way to help your child meet their sensory needs!
Here are a few fun and easy water activities:
Water Tables
Water tables are a great way to work on a variety of skills!
If your child is non-verbal, here are a few ideas:

If Only Life Was a Musical……
We challenge you to find one person that doesn’t like music. Seriously…..it’s pretty much impossible. Everyone likes at least one genre of music, if not several. As adults, music can serve many different purposes. It can be for pure enjoyment. Music can help with our emotional states….it can calm us down and decrease our stress. Music can pep us up and get our energy booming. Music can help us focus on important tasks. Music can be a social outlet for us. Music can also help us learn. This is the same for children!

Give me an iPod and I can run for miles. Take it away and I’m bored after a mile or two and looking for better things to do like watching paint dry. Music can touch a range of feelings, bring inspiration, take us back to a time and place, and capture our undivided attention.
It can be a powerful tool, and it seems many on the spectrum closely associate with it.

When I was young, I dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player. My best friend (Bryan) and I would spend hours passing, kicking, shooting, chasing, dribbling, and talking about life as famous soccer stars. We started out in kindergarten and we were very successful. We played a lot of soccer, we won a lot of championships, we shared laughter and we shared tears in defeat. We. The common word here is We. We were a team. We would not be separated. Our families respected and cared for one another. We were brothers.