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Pediatric Physical Therapy – Heel Contact Abdominals

January 1, 2008

OT, PT, Tip or Resource

Four year old boy working on abdominal muscle strengthening, weight bearing through the right lower extremity and lower extremity muscle strengthening. Video provided by Your Therapy Source...

January 1, 2008

OT, PT, Tip or Resource, Video

This activity idea encourages sensory motor skill development. You should adapt the activity based on the children’s physical abilities. Here are some suggested way to use an indoor ladder path. Visit Your Therapy Source for more sensory motor activity ideas...

January 1, 2008

Article, Autism, Early Intervention, SLP

Williams, D. & Minshew, N. (2010, April 27). The ASHA Leader. Autism spectrum disoders (ASD) clearly affect social functioning, but also have an impact on the development and use of language that extends beyond pragmatics. Because ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, clinicians…...

January 1, 2008

OT, PT, Tip or Resource, Video

Four year old boy working on heel contact. Velcro is strapped to feet with velcro coins on cards. Go to Your Therapy Sourcefor more sensory motor activity ideas....

How Does Your Child Hear and Talk?

January 1, 2008

Article, SLP

[Source] ASHA NB: This article is written for the parents. We publish it here because we know that therapists like to give their client’s caregivers as much information as possible. The development of communication skills begins in infancy, before the emergence of the…...

January 1, 2008

OT, PT, Tip or Resource, Video

Four year old boy working on upper extremity and trunk strengthening while playing a game. There are several words written on the upright cards. When a word is called out, the boy finds the correct written word and uses the rolling pin…...

Horns As Therapy Tools

January 1, 2008

Article, Oral Motor, SLP

By: Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson Published in ADVANCE Magazine May 31, 1999 Copyright © 1999 Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, M.S., CCC-SLP This Article was reprinted from SRH Therapies with the express permission of the Author Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson. If horns had not been invented by ancient civilizations, surely…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Cochlear Implants, Hearing Loss, SLP

Cosby, J. (2009, February 10). The ASHA Leader. Although school-based speech-language pathologists are essential to the educational success of children with cochlear implants (CIs), results from the Watson and Martin (1999) and Iverson (2005) surveys show that school-based SLPs generally perceive their…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Cerebral Palsy, Parental Involvement

Parenting a Child with Cerebral Palsy (or Parents’ Rights) By: Jenifer Simpson © United Cerebral Palsy This article is reprinted here with express permission of Lara Terrell, MSW, Information and Referral Specialist United Cerebral Palsy TM (UCP). This article originally appeared on their Website. NB:…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Multiculturalism, SLP

van Kleeck, A. (2007, September 25). The ASHA Leader. The differences between home talk and school talk can be distilled into three categories—why we talk, how we talk, and what we talk about. Understanding cultural differences in talk can help see a…...