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OT Corner: Touch, Feel and Sort Halloween Friends

October 6, 2020

9 October 2020, Newsletter, OT, Sensory, SPD

[Source: Miss Mancy’s Blog] Halloween is a great time to push children’s sensory boundaries! There are so many gooey, gross activities you can do with them. I like to start with something simple that may feel a little odd to some children…...

Simple Bat Corner Bookmark

October 6, 2020

9 October 2020, Following Directions, Halloween, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Red Ted Art] A cheeky blast from the past!!! We shared this super duper cute and easy origami bat before! However, I feel I didn’t sufficiently highlight the bat’s dual purpose of paper bat decoration AND Simple Bat Corner Bookmark… and as you…...

Halloween Temporal Directions Activity

October 6, 2020

9 October 2020, Following Directions, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Seen on Ms. Lane’s SLP Materials Blog, posted to Pinterest and then shared on Instagram – This worksheet has been wildly popular with hundreds of repins, likes and shares! These “before” and “after” temporal directions have a Halloween theme. For example:…...

October 5, 2020

9 October 2020, Articulation, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Special Thanks to Erik Raj for this week’s activity of the week. I’m not sure if Homeworkphobia is a “real” phobia, but I’m starting to think it has to be because some of my students consistently come up with the most hilarious…...

October 5, 2020

9 October 2020, Dyslexia, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Restoring normal patterns of rhythmic neural activity through non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain alleviates sound-processing deficits and improves reading accuracy in adults with dyslexia, according to a study published September 8, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology…...

October 5, 2020

9 October 2020, CP, News, Newsletter

[Source: NIH] Researchers confirm that about 14% of all cases of cerebral palsy, a disabling brain disorder for which there are no cures, may be linked to a patient’s genes and suggest that many of those genes control how brain circuits become…...

October 5, 2020

9 October 2020, ADHD, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Science Daily] Girls — but not boys — who participate actively in school sports activities in middle childhood show improved behaviour and attentiveness in early adolescence, suggests a new Canadian study published in Preventative Medicine. “Girls who do regular extracurricular…...

October 5, 2020

9 October 2020, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Science Daily] When a baby reaches for one stuffed animal in a room filled with others just like it, that random choice is very bad news for those unpicked toys: the baby has likely just decided she doesn’t like what she…...

October 5, 2020

9 October 2020, Empathy, News, Newsletter, SLP, Social Skills

[Source: Medical X-Press] A team of researchers from Cardiff University has used neuroscience for the first time to explore the impact doll play has on children. In an 18-month study, the team monitored the brain activity of 33 children, aged between four and eight, as…...

October 5, 2020

9 October 2020, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Wow! Physical Therapy Month snuck up on me this year. September morphed into October somehow. I think maybe because school started so late it has put me in a time warp. I created a quick, encouraging, freebie today…...