TME Tuesday: Making Visuals to Go Along with My Sequencing TME Challenge

It is time to update you on my TME challenge. I have finished three sequencing therapeutic music experiences and have the master template finished for two more. This week's challenge is writing coping skills TMEs, so it will be a less visual heavy task this week than last week. I have plenty of coping skills ideas in my books, so I just have to write things up in order to get them into my database.

I am working more and more in the areas of making things that are relevant to my client population and other school-based therapy populations. I am hoping to have more free time on my schedule pretty soon, so I want to get into the habit of making TMEs and visuals during that free time. At the moment, I don't have that extra free time, but here's hoping that we can do this really soon.

Anyway, it was a late morning for me, so I have to end here. I hope that you have a good Tuesday. Mine should be pretty good. We have five groups and one individual and then a meeting about that free time I was talking about (it is a REALLY good situation, and I am hoping it will happen sooner rather than later!). I am hoping that my coping skills TMEs will be started by the end of work today. I have to start with my brainstorming and idea book review to see what I have already started and just need to translate into TME-speak.

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