Pine Tree Society Blog
Pine Tree Society’s telepractice speech services bridge distance learning gap
As educators and families adapt to distance learning to help stop the spread of Covid-19, Pine Tree Society quickly evolved to offer speech and assistive technology for learning services via telepractice to support schools and students. These video-based...
Bangor Daily News: Pine Tree Camp’s Virtual Connection to Campers of All Ages
The immediate impact of COVID-19 has prompted many camps across the United States to focus on sharing the activities and fun of summer camp right now. Writer Kristine Millard of The Bangor Daily News reports that "Among those camps is Pine Tree Camp, whose camper...
Maine Summer Camps profiles Pine Tree Camp’s innovative Camp to You initiative
“Everyone’s creativity has to be in full force." It’s an exciting time at Pine Tree Society and Pine Tree Camp as we plan for what more we can do to support Maine people with disabilities. Check out this Maine Summer Camps feature story about the innovation behind our...
Parents: We’re in this together to support your child’s speech / language goals
“Awesome.” “Hitting it out of the park.” “Superior.” Those are some of the ways parents have described their child’s experience with Pine Tree Society’s Speech Language Pathologists remote speech/language therapy telepractice sessions. These one-on-one video...
Literacy and Autism: Tips for building literacy skills at home
Four way to build literacy skills at home By Linda Bonnar-Ivery, MA, CCC-SLP, ATP Director of Communication Pathways, Pine Tree Society For children of all abilities, literacy is a tool of personal empowerment, a means of social development and a form of expression. ...
Virtual connection reduces isolation of Maine people with disabilities
It’s almost like we haven’t left At this point in time when we’re all coping with the effects of social isolation, Pine Tree Society’s Adult Support Services team has launched remote programming to engage their clients in maintaining connections with friends, building...
Sadie: Pine Tree Society’s Early Learning Center is her special place
Thriving. Confident. Role model. That’s how her parents describe their five-year-old daughter Sadie. That wasn’t always the case. “She had a hard time with anger and emotional outbursts,” her mother, Heather, recalled. “She had a tough time building empathy and...
COVID-19 consequence: Emergency funds needed
I don’t normally make requests like this, but these are desperate times. COVID-19 is already hurting Maine people with disabilities and their families in countless ways – and we are quickly working to respond. Would you please make an urgent gift to help? I just got...
75 Years of Pine Tree Camp…and counting
It was forward thinking The year was 1945. Like all Americans, the lives of Maine people had been shaped by the Great Depression, two World Wars and the effects of debilitating diseases like polio. The typical Mainer lived on a farm or worked in a local mill or...