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Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy: Why We Need Each Other

December 27, 2010

31 December 2010, Article, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, SLP, SPD

By: Jessica Hunt, OTR/L Kaufman Children’s Center for Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor, and Social Connections, Inc. Speech and occupational therapy overlap in many areas, to include feeding, swallowing, cognition, body posture and awareness, and others. In our current medical model, the common practice…...

December 27, 2010

31 December 2010, Article, Newsletter, OT, PT, Q&A, SLP

By: Linda Dayton-Kehoe, COTA/L, Kellie Drake-Lightfoot, PT, MPT, Beatrica Kovacova, LPTA, and Colleen Manion, MS, OTR/L What is pediatric palliative care? Our pediatric palliative care team is an interdisciplinary group of medical professionals that provide emotional, spiritual, physical, and psychosocial care to…...

December 17, 2010

31 December 2010, ADHD, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: The New York Times] As recently as 2002, an international group of leading neuroscientists found it necessary to publish a statement arguing passionately that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was a real condition. In the face of “overwhelming” scientific evidence, they complained,…...

December 17, 2010

31 December 2010, Article, Newsletter, SLP

By: Skye Blue Angus copyright 2010. Skye Blue Angus. This blog post has been reprinted with express permission of the author as it appeared on her blog Cree-zy, Crazy Speechie Indigenous peoples are traditionally storytellers. Oral traditions are historical accounts, teachings, lessons…...

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…...