So, I know that I have been absent a lot lately.  Honestly, life has just overwhelmed me.  2015 was a BIG year! At home, my husband and I decided to move our family to a different town.  This meant cleaning, organizing and packing up our old house to sell (it sold in three days) so that we could start looking for a new house.  We didn't expect our house to sell so fast, so it was crunch time really quickly!  We really wanted to find a house in a neighborhood with lots of kids.  We looked all around, and found our dream house in the perfect neighborhood!  We were able to get a little more house than we originally wanted because we moved out a little farther that we had previously thought we would.  This neighborhood is crawling with little buddies for our guys, so it is perfect for us! We accepted the offer on our old house on June 5, and a whirlwind later, we purchased and moved into our new house on August 1!   Did I mention that we had also planned a family vacatio...

There have been many moments in my career as an SLP that have rendered me entirely speechless.  When I saw this topic from Activity Tailor , I knew I had to link up! Working in self-contained Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) classrooms for over 12 years now has produced many speechless moments for me.  My favorites are when students who were previously non-verbal or very late talkers communicate with me. When a student uses every color on their PECS book to request every color Skittle I have. When a student with ASD has been working on simple conversations for a long time, and spontaneously makes a comment without prompting. When we figure out that a completely "non-verbal" student will speak and repeat words into a microphone! When a parent cries at an IEP because they are so happy with the progress their child has made. When a student with ASD moves away for a year and a half, comes back, and still remembers my iPad password!!! There are many speechless moments ...