I really love the 'disordered' animals 't'.
Do you have any SLP swag?
Senin, 05 Agustus 2013
Back in my Day: Fashion Edition (part 3)
I hope you've loved our 'Back in my Day' speech posts! Part 1 featured some old therapy materials. Part 2 featured that horrible 'smoking' card. Today we're featuring a collection of SLP Fashion!
Minggu, 04 Agustus 2013
THRENODY (FOR THE VICTIMS OF HIROSHIMA)
by Howie Good
It’s years later,
but still August,
the sky erupting
in abrupt reds
& parsimonious purples
like God’s own
fiery flesh,
until nowhere
is everywhere,
& our faces are flecked
with sharp grains
of martyrs’ bones.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press. He has a number of chapbooks forthcoming, including Elephant Gun from Dog on a Chain Press. His poetry has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthology. goodh51(at)gmail.com.
It’s years later,
but still August,
the sky erupting
in abrupt reds
& parsimonious purples
like God’s own
fiery flesh,
until nowhere
is everywhere,
& our faces are flecked
with sharp grains
of martyrs’ bones.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press. He has a number of chapbooks forthcoming, including Elephant Gun from Dog on a Chain Press. His poetry has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthology. goodh51(at)gmail.com.
Jumat, 02 Agustus 2013
DIFFICULT TO SWALLOW
by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Lakota grandmothers in South Dakota
Report that the Department of Social Services
Illegally places Lakota children in foster care
Away from their communities
And extended families
And that those children are continually dosed
With an array of psychoactive drugs
Thus providing pharmaceutical corporations
With a lucrative market
As well as a ready supply of guinea pigs.
When two Lakota children’s noses
Would not stop bleeding
From the medications they he were being fed
Instead of discontinuing the drugs
Doctors sutured their nostrils shut
I know there are those who believe
That humanity is making moral progress
But I see progress in the opposite direction:
As the forces of accumulation and profit grind on
They have become ever more monstrously creative
And efficient
And effective
At mangling lives
Decimating communities
Torturing bodies
And pulverizing spirits.
The good Dr. King told us
That the moral arc of the universe
Bends toward justice
But if I were a little Lakota boy
Stolen from my people
Used as a lab rat
Gagging on the blood pooled in my throat
From a sewn-up nose
I might find that
Difficult to swallow.
Buff Whitman-Bradley is the author of four books of poetry, b. eagle, poet; The Honey Philosophies; Realpolitik; and When Compasses Grow Old; and the chapbook, Everything Wakes Up! His poetry has appeared in many print and online journals. He is also co-editor, with Cynthia Whitman-Bradley and Sarah Lazare, of the book About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War. He has co-produced/directed two documentary films, the award-winning Outside In (with Cynthia Whitman-Bradley) and Por Que Venimos (with the MIRC Film Collective). He lives in northern California.
Lakota grandmothers in South Dakota
Report that the Department of Social Services
Illegally places Lakota children in foster care
Away from their communities
And extended families
And that those children are continually dosed
With an array of psychoactive drugs
Thus providing pharmaceutical corporations
With a lucrative market
As well as a ready supply of guinea pigs.
When two Lakota children’s noses
Would not stop bleeding
From the medications they he were being fed
Instead of discontinuing the drugs
Doctors sutured their nostrils shut
I know there are those who believe
That humanity is making moral progress
But I see progress in the opposite direction:
As the forces of accumulation and profit grind on
They have become ever more monstrously creative
And efficient
And effective
At mangling lives
Decimating communities
Torturing bodies
And pulverizing spirits.
The good Dr. King told us
That the moral arc of the universe
Bends toward justice
But if I were a little Lakota boy
Stolen from my people
Used as a lab rat
Gagging on the blood pooled in my throat
From a sewn-up nose
I might find that
Difficult to swallow.
Buff Whitman-Bradley is the author of four books of poetry, b. eagle, poet; The Honey Philosophies; Realpolitik; and When Compasses Grow Old; and the chapbook, Everything Wakes Up! His poetry has appeared in many print and online journals. He is also co-editor, with Cynthia Whitman-Bradley and Sarah Lazare, of the book About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War. He has co-produced/directed two documentary films, the award-winning Outside In (with Cynthia Whitman-Bradley) and Por Que Venimos (with the MIRC Film Collective). He lives in northern California.
School of Multi-Step Directions {app review & giveaway}
The developers over at Virtual Speech Center, Inc. have released another speech therapy app. School of Multi-Step Directions is developed for elementary and older students working on 2-4 step directions. VSC provided a copy of this app for review, but the opinions below are just mine!
In setting you can choose randomization, enable audio and adjust rewards.
It's important to note that background noise can be added in different levels here for Figure Ground practice. The background noise practice makes this app very appropriate for children with auditory processing disorders.
To start, add your students information and click on one of the classrooms.
Each classroom features different kinds of multi-step direction activities in the theme of the given classroom. Read the details from the developer below:
Choose different levels and learning objectives for each student. I especially loved the chemistry set! The tools in this set allow you to set temperature to hot or cold, mix, or shake.
When shown the game screen children will be read the direction prompt. There are 4 different tools at the bottom of the page. Use the pencil to underline, the X to cross out, the highlighter to highlight and the eraser to erase!
Many of the skills are really hard. For example a 2 step conditional directions with numbers and even/odd number says: If 10 is an even number, underline 3 and cross out 2. If not highlight 2 and erase 9. That's a lot for ME to recall!
Data collection is seen in the top corners of the page. You can also repeat the verbal prompt.
The app includes a ping pong game as part of recess.
The app's data collection is on par for data collection apps.
The app is listed for sale in the itunes store for $18.99. But one lucky reader can have a free copy by entering in the rafflecopter giveaway listed below!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
In setting you can choose randomization, enable audio and adjust rewards.
It's important to note that background noise can be added in different levels here for Figure Ground practice. The background noise practice makes this app very appropriate for children with auditory processing disorders.
To start, add your students information and click on one of the classrooms.
Each classroom features different kinds of multi-step direction activities in the theme of the given classroom. Read the details from the developer below:
- English classroom: 2-step, 3-step and 4-step of unrelated directions with multiple levels of difficulty. Stimuli include: pictures, letters, and written words with color, size, and temporal concepts. For example, “Underline the red letter A and erase the blue letter C.”
- Math classroom: 2-step, 3-step and 4-step of unrelated directions with multiple levels of difficulty. Stimuli include: shapes, number, concepts, size, color, odd, even, bigger than, and smaller than. For example, “If 10 is bigger than 9, highlight 4 and underline 6, if not, cross out 2 and touch 1.”
- Chemistry Lab: 2-step, 3-step and 4-step unrelated directions with multiple levels of difficulty. Children will have fun “making experiments.” For example, “Set the temperature to cold, shake the flask, and add water to the cup.”
When shown the game screen children will be read the direction prompt. There are 4 different tools at the bottom of the page. Use the pencil to underline, the X to cross out, the highlighter to highlight and the eraser to erase!
Many of the skills are really hard. For example a 2 step conditional directions with numbers and even/odd number says: If 10 is an even number, underline 3 and cross out 2. If not highlight 2 and erase 9. That's a lot for ME to recall!
Data collection is seen in the top corners of the page. You can also repeat the verbal prompt.
The app includes a ping pong game as part of recess.
The app's data collection is on par for data collection apps.
Check out this full video description for more details.
The app is listed for sale in the itunes store for $18.99. But one lucky reader can have a free copy by entering in the rafflecopter giveaway listed below!
LOVING SCRABBLE
by Tricia Knoll
Words for love: Japanese 2, Sanskrit 96, Ancient Persian 80, Greek 3, English 1
She, sidewinding from the center star: TWOS.
he building from sibilance, up to down: ONES
she slides, pushing tiles over and under ONES, LONESOME
grabbing g, he forges EGO
she built LOVE from loneliness
and he VAGUE from love
she bridges loneliness to vague: NAG
he pounced on VAGUE to USURP
and she that P for PAPA
he pushed TIT up to TWOS
triumph in hard combinations
bedding down together as if
WOO and WED
DARLING and ADORE
VEIL and LACE
TUX and TINGLE and COMMIT
outshone
YES down from YOKE
BUZZ and BLESS and BED,
JOY, JISM, SORROW, and SPARK
EX (triple word score) and SUE and LEFT
FIRE from IRE, ACE hung from AWE
STALE and MATE
she’s left at end with an unplaceable U
he with I
Tricia Knoll is a Portland, Oregon poet who loves word games, plays several on her I-Phone and has known some scarey competitive women Scrabble players.
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| "Hasbro pulls its support of Scrabble's organizing tournament organization -- the National Scrabble Association". --NY Times, July 14, 2013 |
Words for love: Japanese 2, Sanskrit 96, Ancient Persian 80, Greek 3, English 1
She, sidewinding from the center star: TWOS.
he building from sibilance, up to down: ONES
she slides, pushing tiles over and under ONES, LONESOME
grabbing g, he forges EGO
she built LOVE from loneliness
and he VAGUE from love
she bridges loneliness to vague: NAG
he pounced on VAGUE to USURP
and she that P for PAPA
he pushed TIT up to TWOS
triumph in hard combinations
bedding down together as if
WOO and WED
DARLING and ADORE
VEIL and LACE
TUX and TINGLE and COMMIT
outshone
YES down from YOKE
BUZZ and BLESS and BED,
JOY, JISM, SORROW, and SPARK
EX (triple word score) and SUE and LEFT
FIRE from IRE, ACE hung from AWE
STALE and MATE
she’s left at end with an unplaceable U
he with I
Tricia Knoll is a Portland, Oregon poet who loves word games, plays several on her I-Phone and has known some scarey competitive women Scrabble players.
Rabu, 31 Juli 2013
THE PENIS
by Cally Conan-Davies
I don't have one, or rather the one I have
I don't have one, or rather the one I have
hides discreetly in its little hood. As they should.
A piquant pea, appropriately kept to weather
all kinds of climates hot to chill, with folds
and layers to peel back. And a hook. When laid bare
it won't grow to a tree for all the world to see,
unless of course I'm really a spotted hyena
in which case it would serve a multitude
of purposeful functions: pee, nooky, parturition
(apparently, mine warms to big words though);
and it could be that because it doesn't grow
to industrial proportions, it's easier to ignore it,
easier to relieve it whether anyone is looking or not
and much easier to tell it no, no, no.
Cally Conan-Davies is an Australian writer and teacher who moved to the United States in 2012. Her poems have appeared, and are forthcoming, in Poetry, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Raintown Review, The Sewanee Review and The Southwest Review, among others. She lives mostly in Oregon.
GI News—August 2013
- The real deal on agave syrup, coconut sugar and rice syrup;
- Nicole Senior checks out crispy, crunchy carrots in Taste of Health;
- Anneka Manning shares her amazing carrot cake recipe in Family Baking;
- Rice - enjoy it but keep portions moderate and look for lower GI varieties says Dr Alan Barclay;
- New SunRice Low GI Brown rice has GI Symbol;
- Foraging for food.
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