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Peds Tx Corner: Dyspraxia in Kids on the Autism Spectrum

June 13, 2018

15 June 2018, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: My Aspergers Child] Most children with Asperger’s (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) have a history of delayed acquisition of motor skills (e.g., handwriting, pedaling a bike, tying shoelaces, catching a ball, opening jars, climbing monkey-bars, etc.), which is called “motor clumsiness.”…...

June 13, 2018

[Source: Science Daily] Researchers at Cognitive Brain Research Unit in the University of Helsinki studied in a community setting whether a low-cost, weekly music playschool provided to 5-6-year-old children in kindergartens affects their linguistic abilities. The children (N=66) were tested four times…...

June 13, 2018

15 June 2018, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Psych Central] The brains of people with high levels of empathy appear to process music differently than those of low-empathy people, according to a new study by researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas and the University of California, Los…...

June 12, 2018

12 June 2018, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] A father’s love contributes as much – and sometimes more – to a child’s development as does a mother’s love. That is one of many findings in a new large-scale analysis of research about the power of parental…...

June 12, 2018

15 June 2018, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Your Therapy Source] The Journal of Experimental Psychology published research examining eye tracking and visual motor skills in young children. The participants included 40 preschool and early elementary school children. Using head-mounted eye tracking methods visual motor skills were directly measured when the…...

June 12, 2018

15 May 2018, Memory, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] Our ability to remember past events develops rapidly in the first couple of years of life, but it’s not clear exactly how this happens. Researchers at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis have…...

Darth Vader Book Mark for Father’s Day

June 12, 2018

15 June 2018, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Article and Image Source: Red Ted Art] As you may have noticed, we get MANY MANY MANY Corner Bookmark Design Requests via our quickly growing and popular YouTube Craft Channel for kids….. …This bookmark makes a cute little Father’s Day Gift! Read…...

June 12, 2018

15 June 2018, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] Disability advocates say that federal education officials acted illegally by fundamentally altering the way they handle discrimination complaints in schools. A lawsuit filed this week accuses the U.S. Department of Education of skirting its obligation to investigate complaints of disability and…...

Father’s Day Student-Made Book

June 11, 2018

9 June 2023, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Activity and Image Source: Classroom Freebies] For those of you who will still be in school during June, this Father’s Day book is a great, quick activity for your students to complete as gifts for their father, uncle, or grandpa. All three…...

Darth Vader Book Mark for Father’s Day

June 11, 2018

15 June 2018, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Red Ted Art] As you may have noticed, we get MANY MANY MANY Corner Bookmark Design Requests via our quickly growing and popular YouTube Craft Channel for kids….. …This bookmark makes a cute little Father’s Day Gift! Read the Rest of…...