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September 6, 2019

13 September 2019, Job, School Psych

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or text us at 662-524-9099 Are you interested in a position where you can motivate and encourage students to want to learn and make a difference in the life of a child? PediaStaff is searching for a Lead School Psychologist to…...

September 5, 2019

6 September 2019, Article, Newsletter, OT

Editor’s Note: Congratulations to friend of PediaStaff, Lindsey Biel, who is featured in a Parents Magazine Article this month: [Source: Parents Magazine] “My 6-year-old is a squeezer,” says Amanda Ponzar, of Alexandria, Virginia. “He used to squeeze the flabby underarm of every…...

September 4, 2019

6 September 2019, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Bilinguistics] Can a child demonstrate a speech impairment in one language but not the other? My immediate response to this is, “No.” That said, let me tell you about a student I tested last week. Meet Miguel. Miguel is a 7-year,…...

September 4, 2019

6 September 2019, Autumn, Fall, Inferencing, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Primary Inspiration via Pinterest] Here’s a seasonal freebie for you that will have your K-2 students determining key details in 24 riddles, applying their prior knowledge, and inferring the answers. These riddles are a form of informational text, featuring autumn social studies and…...

September 4, 2019

6 September 2019, Anxiety, Article, Newsletter, School Psychologist

[Source: MindShift] I met Brianna Sedillo when she pitched my radio station a personal perspective on anxiety, a topic that comes up over and over as teachers and parents try to support young people. “Everything kind of started with the anxiety and depression…...

September 4, 2019

6 September 2019, Job, Newsletter, SLP

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or text us at 662-524-9099 PediaStaff is hiring for a School Speech-Language Pathologist for 2019-2020 school year in the area of Arlington Heights. School Speech-Language Pathologist Position Details: – 3 parochial schools – entire school year –…...

September 4, 2019

6 September 2019, 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…...

September 4, 2019

6 September 2019, Newsletter, School Nursing

[Source: Education Week] Educators are grappling with widespread student vaping and use of e-cigarettes in schools, a problem my colleague Arianna Prothero and I wrote about this week. While some schools are doubling down on a discipline-heavy, punitive approach to students found with…...

September 3, 2019

6 September 2019, Early Intervention, Job, OT

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or text us at 662-524-9099 PediaStaff is seeking a full-time Occupational Therapist for the bustling Northeast Portland area to work in early Intervention settings starting this September and ending mid-June 2020. This is an early Intervention position…...

September 3, 2019

6 September 2019, Newsletter, SLP, Stuttering

[Source: Science Daily] Psychiatrists have tested the orally administered investigational medication ecopipam on adults who stutter in an open-label, uncontrolled clinical trial and found that it reduced their stuttering symptoms from the start of therapy after eight weeks of dosing. Positive results…...