I would like to announce, my soon to be launched, children’s book

Bayo the Boo Cow

from Ink and Quill Publisher, Henderson, NV

Bayo means to find joy in Nigerian.

Boo ~ Boo ~ Boo, Bayo could not say “Moo.”

Parents and Teachers – you will be thrilled to find a barn load of oral motor exercises at the end of Bayo to practice with your chilren for developmental articulation skills. 

These exercises are written by Kathie Harrington, M.A., CCC, SLP

Kathie has years of experience working with children with speech and language disorders as well as developmental milestones.  Let Kathie and Bayo show you and your child fun and empowering strategies for speech development that can be successful individually or in a classroom environment.

Bayo the Boo Cow will be available shortly.

E-mail me for pre-orders and I’ll give you a “cowabunga” of great deal.

kathieh2@cox.net

(to Dolly Parton’s Jolene Lyrics)

Irene, Irene, Irene, Irene,

I’m begging of you please don’t slam our land

Irene, Irene, Irene, Irene,

Please don’t slam it just because you can.

Your destruction is beyond compare

With wind and rain you just don’t care

With a flaming eye of storming surge

You bring your rampage with a curse

Take it on back out to sea

We don’t want you or your misery.

Irene, Irene, Irene, Irene,

I’m begging of you please don’t slam our land

Irene, Irene, Irene, Irene,

Please don’t slam it just because you can.

By Kathie Harrington

@ Kathiesworld.com

Doug at UNLV Star of NV Marching Band

Benefits of Drumming

There are many reasons to choose drumming: communication/language development, social interaction, sensory diet, physical development, and personal development. These reasons are simple to complex and support self-esteem, typical school experience and quality of life.

Communication and language development: Communication is always a targeted area of concern for a person with ASD. This is often the most complicated and obvious aspect of their disability. What drumming does for language development is boundless. Learning to read music — the pauses, the length and style of the notes, the overall piece, and how the percussion parts fits into the whole — takes a great deal of language and problem solving.

When breaking the components of language down into finer details, it is not hard to see that drumming supports all of the language skills specified on most IEPs for children with ASD. These skills include: categorizing, sequencing, predicting, turn taking, attending, problem solving, socializing, making choices, following directions and perhaps even role-playing and reading body language. Whether the child with ASD is drumming on one drum or a set of drums, individually or in a group, he or she is practicing one or more of the above language skills in a functional activity.

I wrote this for ADVANCE for the Occupational Therapist

and you will want to read the entire article,

“Keeping the Beat.”

Fukushima Nuclear Plant

180 plant workers are rotating in groups of 50 at a time as they risk their lives to contain the radiation at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. They are heros and the world is watching and waiting.

WE MUST ALL PRAY THAT GOD IS IN THERE WITH THEM

AND THAT HE HAS HIS HAND ON THEIR SHOULDERS.

autism blog through ADVANCE for Speech/Language Patholgogists

Autism Spectrum Across Ages and Environments

Each weekly entry will inform and insprire SLP’s, other professionals, and parents.

I invite you to read, learn, and comment.

Kathie~
Hello, I am from Iowa Falls and know your family. I have always wanted to tell you how much your book on Autism helped me. I was a teachers Associate at Pineview Elementary School for Joe and didn’t know anything about autisim so I went to the library and checked out your book and it was wonderful- it helped me so much with Joe. Joe’s mom is Rose and she is amazing. Her son and my son are in the same class and like brothers, Joe, is a part of our family. I can read Joe like a book-thanks to you. I stopped being an associate for him in 2nd grade with my son in the same grade. It was hard to have mom there every moment! I could not have done what I did without your guidance in your book! Just wanted you to know you made a differance in my life with your stories.
Have you ever met Rose? You will have to ask your sister about Rose or even call her sometime, I am sure she would love to talk to you- when Joe was 5 we were always thinking ahead what would 10 be like, his preteen years, puberty, high school etc…. how will he adjust, now Rose is looking at college- I must say Joe has come so far since Kindergarten and I feel blessed to have been a part of his life story.
Thanks so much,

Deb Hoover

I want to thank you, Deb. You certainly made my day and warmed my heart with joy.

The family’s success is your success, and your success is my success.

It’s a circle that cannot be broken.

“God Dealth Me a Teddy Bear” is a true story of a one-eyed Teddy bear that I so wanted as a little girl. My older sister, Julie, thought better of getting me that “disabled” bear for Christmas back in the 1950′s. Well, you’ll have to read on to see what happens. Funny, isn’t it how my life evolved around a son with autism and children with disabilities. Maybe that one-eyed Teddy bear gave me more for Christmas than I ever knew.

You’ll enjoy all of the short stories in The Treasure Box, after all they belong there.

Need I say more ~ sign up today!

“A Firefly for Thanksgiving”

Here’s a teaser from my story, “A Firefly for Thanksgiving.” It can be found in Passionate Hearts by Vanilla Heart Publishing.