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Resource of the Week! Huge List of Idioms by Theme!

September 1, 2020

4 September 2020, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Learn English Today via Victoria Emm] Thank you to Victoria Emm, a member of the School Based Speech and Language Facebook group for sharing! Check out this GREAT list of English language idioms by theme and also alphabetically! ...

September 1, 2020

4 September 2020, Article, Newsletter, OT

[Source: The Recycling OT] Typically developing children naturally cross midline during play and functional activities. This is not a skill that parents usually teach, which is why you’ve probably never heard the term before. Children with dyspraxia other types of Sensory Processing…...

Book Review ‘Me First’

September 1, 2020

4 September 2020, Book Review, Literacy, Newsletter, Turn Taking

Reprinted with explicit permission of All4MyChild as it appeared on their blog Title: Me First Author: Helen Lester. Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger Description: Pinkerton the pig always has to be first. No matter what! He learns a lesson that “being first isn’t…...

September 1, 2020

4 September 2020, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: Kids Play Smarter] There seems to be some kind of fascination that kids have with spray bottles! What better way to sneak some educational value into an already motivating game than to incorporate learning and fine motor concepts into spray bottle…...

September 1, 2020

4 September 2020, Fine Motor Activity, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

Here are 10 ideas to use clothes pins with craft sticks. These are inexpensive activities to create to use in the classroom setting while encouraging strengthening of the hand muscles. Use them for academics, sensory diets, emotions and coordination. Head over to Your…...

August 31, 2020

4 September 2020, Article, News, Newsletter, Therapy Animals

[Source: Disability Scoop] A school district is agreeing to pay up and change its ways after federal officials say a student with disabilities was denied access to her trained service dog. The U.S. Department of Justice said that it has reached a settlement with…...

August 31, 2020

4 September 2020, COVID, News, Newsletter

[Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer] The behaviors started a few days after COVID-19 closed schools indefinitely in March: Eleven-year-old Ronan Strouse would bite one arm, issue frequent short, high-pitched yells, bang his leg hard. Ronan, who has intellectual disability, autism and other complicated…...

August 31, 2020

4 September 2020, News, Newsletter, Pediatric Stroke, Stroke

[Source: Science Daily] New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on the development of the brain’s immune defenses — and how those defenses respond to strokes that strike one in 4,000 babies in the first month…...

August 31, 2020

4 September 2020, Language Development, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Mecical X-Press] Languages like Japanese, Korean, Turkish and the indigenous languages of the Amazon, East Africa, and New Guinea build sentences in a way that lets them grow to enormous length. Our research shows learning one of these languages may help…...

August 27, 2020

"Tip or Resource", 29 August 2020, COVID, Newsletter

Welcome to Issue number 25 of our special e-letter, “Teaching & Therapy Resources for Homebound Families” (Did you miss our previous issues?| Read them HERE) Each week, this e-mailer features new resources, articles about this bizarre time we are living in, and…...