The Rebecca Listener

AAC syands for augmentative and alternative communication. But, what does it encompass? What are its benefits? Learn about AAC and how Rebecca School …

Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. But how can the art of Tap Dance be used within an educational group setting? Arielle Jackson …

Commuting, cooking food, and working all have something in common. They are all life skills that at one point or another we learn. How does the …

Social Stories: What are they? In this episode we talk about using a tool called social stories to help students understand and anticipate events in …

Welcome to season 2 of the Rebecca Listener!!! We know everyone has been excited for the Podcasts return and here we are! Stay tuned and hit that subscribe button!!!

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Chris interviews a teaching assistant, Haley R., and the two discuss how improv & Floortime lineup. Haley has used her skills in improv comedy to both help teach students through DIRFloortime and help staff realize …

Chris interviews ToniAnn Loftus,MS, CCC-SLP/TSSLD, and Liza Bernabeo, MS, CCC-SLP/TSSLD, about their recent Journal Article "Food for Thought: Preparing the Brain to Eat New Foods through "Messy" Play." The article was …

On this special episode of the Rebecca Listener, a student joins the podcast to talk about their experience in transition prepping. He explains who …

On today's short episode, we say goodbye to 2019 and talk about some of the years memorable moments as well as what we have to look forward to in 2020.

On this episode Chris is accompanied by Donal Welch, the Rebecca School creative writing teacher. The two take a deeper dive into explaining concerns …

Tina and Chris talk briefly about media literacy and why it is important to understand what we consume from our electronic devices.

Graduation group is a transitions group that helps students understand what it means to graduate school and where they will going post Rebecca School.

To celebrate Physical Therapy month, the Rebecca School's PT department joins Chris to talk about what physical therapy looks like in the DIR …

The Rebecca Listener is back with more content than before! This short episode is our season two podcast kickoff! Tina and Chris talk about the first …

On this episode, Tina & Chris wrap up their discussion on DIR Floortime®. 

Although it's June, our Speech department has come together to talk about their work and promote Better Speech and Hearing Month (May). The therapists talk about assisted hearing devices, different ways of …

Clinical Director Toni Tortora takes over as host for this week's podcast. She interviews Chris, Allison, and Morgan about the Tech/Science groups …

On today's episode, Tina & Chris continue the conversation of breaking down DIR Floortime® by explaining the I (Individual Differences) in DIR.

It's World Autism Awareness Month and we have a special podcast episode just for you! Listen in as our Occupational Therapy department speak about …

On today's Tina Talks episode, Tina and Chris talk about development and the basic functional emotional developmental capacities. 

From learning to navigate the neighborhood, navigating to the store, and learning how to travel to an internship; travel training helps guide students towards their independence.

Handwriting is a skill that is often taught in a singular manner. Learn how an occupational therapist and teacher are switching up how handwriting is …

Today's episode is an open forum in which Chris and the transitions team talks in regards to fostering relationships outside of a school setting.

Sergio, a teaching assistant here at the Rebecca School, discusses his chess groups that he facilitates for students.

Taking a step back and taking a deep breath can help us to self regulate/self soothe. Today's episode involves three therapists who co-run a …

Let's recap this past months episodes as well as shed some light on various upcoming events and happenings at the school.

On today's episode, transition coordinators Josh and Shelby talk about preparing students for post Rebecca School.

On today's episode a few members of our education department take the time to talk about what DIR Floortime looks like in a classroom setting.

In today's episode we look into one of the many groups that are run here at Rebecca School. The group we will be discussing today is poetry group.

Rebecca School's occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech and language therapy supervisors talk about how each of their disciplines …

To start off our podcast Tina, our Director, talks about Rebecca School in order to set the overall tone of future episodes.