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Pinterest Pin of the Week: Band Aid Butterflies!

March 2, 2021

5 March 2021, Newsletter, School Nurse, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: I am thinking that this would be a fantastic “Spring time bulletin board craft” for School Nurses to have students do in just a minute to commemorate a visit to the nurses office! [Source: No Time for Flashcards] When…...

March 2, 2021

[Source: Disability Scoop] With access to COVID-19 vaccines varying dramatically for people with developmental disabilities, advocates want the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its prioritization plan to account for the high risk this population faces. In a letter to CDC leadership…...

March 2, 2021

10 August 2018, Article, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Activity Tailor] Half the battle with Kindergarteners is following directions. While all those early reading and math skills are critical components, it’s the inability to follow directions that derails kiddos and classrooms most. Parents often feel that following directions has more…...

Teaching Idioms with Bilinguistics

March 2, 2021

5 March 2021, Idioms, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Bilinguistics] That’s the way the cookie crumbles!… I put my foot in my mouth… When pigs fly… You are what you eat! … Idioms have varied and sometimes unknown origins; however, due to the punch they deliver when we use them,…...

March 1, 2021

5 March 2021, Article, Articulation, Newsletter, SLP

By: Christine Ristuccia for Mommy Speech Therapy Copyright 2011. Reprinted with the express permission of the author and blog owner, Heidi Hanks as it appeared on her blog Mommy Speech Therapy Editor’s Note: While this Article was written for parents, we thought…...

March 1, 2021

5 March 2021, Article, Newsletter, PT

[Source: Napa Center] March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness month, which gives us the opportunity to both celebrate and educate others about cerebral palsy (CP). We want to answer your questions about cerebral palsy because the more you know, the more you are…...

March 1, 2021

19 May 2017, Article, Newsletter, OT, Visual Perception

By: Melanie Lambert OTR/L A.M. Skeffington, an American optometrist known to some as “the father of behavioral optometry”, believed that vision cannot be separated from the total individual nor from any of the sensory systems because it is integrated into all human…...

Study: Speech Development in Babies

March 1, 2021

[Source: Medical X-Press] In the first few months of their lives, babies cry, babble, gurgle and make a variety of other peculiar sounds. It can be difficult to imagine that they are actually laying the foundations for later speech with these utterances.…...

Research on Drawing and Learning

March 1, 2021

5 March 2021, Fine Motor Skills, Handwriting, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Did you know that research shows that drawing when learning can boost memory recall? Sometimes when we think of ways to help students with their memory we focus on strategies such as: repeating and rehearsing note taking reading…...

March 1, 2021

5 March 2021, Autism, News, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Spectrum News] Autistic children have a harder time catching a ball than non-autistic children do, possibly because they are less able to predict its trajectory, according to a new unpublished study. Researchers presented the findings virtually this week at the 2021 Society…...