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Living Near a Highway May Contribute to Autism

December 17, 2010

31 December 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Time Magazine] Photo:Eric Fischer There are many reasons why living near a highway is undesirable — the noise, the poor air quality, the endless stream of lost tourists using your driveway to turn around. But a new study published in Environmental…...

December 15, 2010

Article, Newsletter, 17 December 2010, OT, Parental Involvement, PI Psychology, PT, School Psych, SLP, TBI

NB: This article is written for the parents of children who have Traumatic Brain Injury and related problems. We publish it here because we know that therapists like to give their client’s caregivers as much information as possible. Thousands of parents each…...

December 15, 2010

17 December 2010, Article, Newsletter

By: Becky Wanca, M.S., CCC-SLP copyright 2010. Becky Wanka. This blog post has been reprinted with express permission of the author as it appeared on her blog Speech Therapy Ideas Want to have some clean wintry fun in your sessions? Have a…...

December 15, 2010

Article, NBCOT, OT

By: Alison Bodor, M.S. OTR/L Clinical Simulation Test Problem CS questions can be considered a structured format item. That is, they require you to apply your knowledge and information from the previous questions and relate it to the subsequent sections, similar to…...

December 15, 2010

17 December 2010, Newsletter, Sensory Motor Skills - Sensory Integration, Tip or Resource

Special Thanks to Your Therapy Source for this great sensory motor holiday activity guide. Please support our contributors and visit Your Therapy Source Here is a twist on the usual countdown to the holidays. This calender for December includes gross motor and…...

American Sign Language in the News

December 15, 2010

17 December 2010, Language, News, Newsletter

[Source: USA Today] By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY American Sign Language is close to surpassing German as the third-most-studied foreign language at America’s colleges and universities. Only 4,500 more students study German than study ASL, and enrollment in classes for the gesture-based…...

December 14, 2010

17 December 2010, ADHD, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] Children with ADHD can sometimes have more difficulties on math and reading tests compared to their peers. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, used identical and fraternal twins to look…...

December 14, 2010

17 December 2010, Article, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

By: Shareka Bentham, SLT copyright 2010. Shareka Bentham, SLT This blog post has been reprinted with express permission of the author as it appeared on her blog Easy Speech and Language Ideas I’ve always loved scrapbooks. As a child I always enjoyed…...

December 14, 2010

Article, Practice Guidelines, RTI, SLP, Special Education

We thank U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences for making their pages available. In the primary grades students with reading difficulties may need intervention to prevent future reading failure. This guide offers specific recommendations to help educators identify students in…...

December 13, 2010

17 December 2010, Language, News, Newsletter, Stuttering

[Source: New York Times] “My Fair Lady” had “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.” “Singin’ in the Rain” had “Moses supposes his toeses are roses.” To cinema’s pantheon of tricky diction, we can now add, “I have a sieve…...