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Sensory Corner: Supporting Sensory Needs in Children & Teens with ASD

May 22, 2017

26 May 2017, Newsletter, OT, Sensory Processing, SPD

Editor’s Note: Thank You to our friend Lindsey Biel for sharing her free webinar with us! [Source: Autism Resource Institute] Sensory issues are a complex and often overlooked issue for individuals on the autism spectrum. Hear occupational therapist Lindsey Biel provide tips…...

May 22, 2017

26 May 2017, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Your Therapy Source] If you need to sneak in some bimanual and fine motor skills practice with academic material, the Slide Bag Quiz is perfect! I was reading a blog post by Dr. Jean (excellent blog) on individual response techniques and…...

May 22, 2017

26 May 2017, Newsletter, Sign Language

[Source: Medical News Today] The speed at which sign language users understand what others are ‘saying’ to them depends on whether the conversation partners are left- or right-handed, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Birmingham worked with British…...

School-Based OT – Hampshire/Dundee, IL

May 19, 2017

19 May 2017, Job, News, Newsletter

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or School position for several Occupational Therapists available full time in the Hampshire/Dundee area for SY 2017-2018. * 5 days/wk * school hours are typically 7:30 to 3:30 or 8:00 to 4:00 but there are some variations depending on which school…...

May 18, 2017

Autism, News, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Special Ed

[Source: Medical News Today] Autism, characterized by repetitive behaviors and difficulty interacting socially, appears to be on the rise. Much of this increase is thought to be due to better detection rates and greater awareness. However, many scientists believe that environmental or…...

May 18, 2017

19 May 2017, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Reading Rockets] The content of a children’s book—not its form as a print book or a digital book—predicts how well children understand a story, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The findings, presented…...

May 18, 2017

19 May 2017, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Professor Panos Athanasopoulos, a linguist from Lancaster University and Professor Emanuel Bylund, a linguist from Stellenbosch University and Stockholm University, have discovered that people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently depending on the language context in…...

May 18, 2017

19 May 2017, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Rapid learning of new words is crucial for language acquisition, and frequent exposure to spoken words enables vocabulary development. In her doctoral dissertation, Lilli Kimppa studied neural response dynamics to new words over brief exposure. She measured the neural…...

May 17, 2017

9 June 2017, Newsletter

[Source: MindShift] Some of the nation’s top researchers who’ve spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together in Washington with one goal in mind: to cut through the fog of studies and the endless debates over the benefits of pre-school.…...

May 17, 2017

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…...