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Flip It! A Back to School Themed Following Directions Game Freebie

August 10, 2021

13 August 2021, Back to School, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Speechy Musings via Teachers Pay Teachers] This is a fun, following directions game that challenges your students! How to Set Up: Print all six picture cards back to back (or glue/laminate that way). The apples should be back to back, the…...

August 10, 2021

13 August 2021, Newsletter, OT, PT, SLP

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Well folks, the time has officially come for back to school again! Every year that goes by I feel like the summer goes faster and faster. When school does start back up again, I do find it much…...

Back to School Idiom Task Cards

August 10, 2021

13 August 2021, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: My Speech Tools on TpT] Back-to-School Idiom Task Cards for speech therapy, ESL and Special Education! This packet includes 35 school related idioms for speech therapy activities and beginning of the year ice-breakers. These minimal-prep task cards can be used with…...

Back to School WH- Game Board

August 10, 2021

13 August 2021, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Speech Time Fun] I still have another 3-4 weeks left of summer but I know some of you are coming close to that back to school season. I want to try and post back to school ideas to help get you prepared! …...

August 10, 2021

13 August 2021, Article, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Pediatric Occupational Therapy Tips] I am often asked to provide exercises or activities that children can carry out in the home setting to improve hand skills, so I thought I would share some of the tasks that I usually recommend. Please…...

August 10, 2021

13 August 2021, Article, News, Newsletter, SLP

Editor’s Note: While this is not an article about pediatric speech, we at PediaStaff thought this was such a powerful development that we decided it was worth sharing with you, regardless. [Source: New York Times] In a once unimagined accomplishment, electrodes implanted…...

August 9, 2021

13 August 2021, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] When we speak, although we may not be aware of it, we use our auditory and somatosensory systems to monitor the results of the movements of our tongue or lips. This sensory information plays a critical role in how…...

August 9, 2021

13 August 2021, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty of past research has looked into the physical effects of childhood poverty, or documented mental health disparities between socioeconomic classes. But Deanna…...

Cerebral Palsy, Pain and Motor Skills

August 9, 2021

13 August 2021, News, Newsletter

[Source: Your Therapy Source] When working on motor skills with children who have cerebral palsy, do you consider pain management as well? A recent study took a close look at pain levels, motor skill abilities and children with cerebral palsy. Data was…...

August 9, 2021

13 August 2021, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] People with autism spectrum disorder have difficulty interpreting facial expressions. Using a neural network model that reproduces the brain on a computer, a group of researchers based at Tohoku University have unraveled how this comes to be. The journal Scientific…...