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Seasonal Pinterest Pin of the Week: Books About Bees!

March 28, 2017

31 March 2017, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: Bumblebees are in the news lately, as the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, has just gone on the Endangered Species List. Why not feature them in your Spring reading? [Source: Cutting Tiny Bites] Buzzzz! My girls were terrified of bees,…...

March 27, 2017

31 March 2017, Job, Newsletter, SLP

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or PediaStaff has opportunities for SLPs in Yakima, WA starting in the Fall of 2017. If you kayak, bike, climb mountains, hike or ride horses when it’s warm, or do snow sports when it’s cold, you’ll love…...

March 27, 2017

31 March 2017, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source Speech Time Fun] How can you make your instruction more popping? By using this inferential vocabulary activity, of course! The popcorn in this activity have inferential sentence stems on them to get your students speaking with great vocabulary. Get to popping!…...

Nike Improves Shoe Accessibility

March 27, 2017

31 March 2017, News, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] Nike is taking steps toward increased accessibility with a new shoe designed to make it even easier for people with disabilities to slip their feet in and out. The athletic-wear giant said this week that it’s introducing a new…...

March 27, 2017

Language, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] A new doctoral dissertation by Parvin Gheitasi at Umeå University in Sweden explores the different functions of prefabricated phrases in young learners’ oral language production. These phrases provided learners with an instrument to overcome their lack of knowledge, to…...

March 23, 2017

24 March 2017, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Kids Play Smarter] There are endless ways to improve our fine motor strength all around us. Great fine motor strengthening exercises are often pleasantly “disguised” as fun everyday activities. Many times, we don’t even realize that our everyday actions are building…...

March 23, 2017

24 March 2017, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Speech and Language Kids] In this video, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark shows you how to teach a child to use irregular past tense verbs. Use Before and After pictures. Show the before and then the after and ask “what happened?”. The…...

Rhyming Flapjacks Game

March 23, 2017

[Source: Pre-K Pages] Rhyming is a very important skill for beginning readers to learn and practice. It’s a phonemic awareness skill that helps kids hear and identify sounds within words. Children develop an understanding of rhyme through experience and exposure; they must…...

March 23, 2017

24 March 2017, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Speech Techie] Google Earth has always been a great, though not exactly user-friendly, tool for making maps that can target language. Consider the way that certain novels your students have to tackle require an understanding of setting and shifts in setting.…...

March 23, 2017

24 March 2017, News, Newsletter

[Source: School Law Blog] The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a major decision expanding the scope of students’ special education rights, ruling unanimously that schools must do more than provide a “merely more than de minimis” education program to a student…...