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OT Corner: Client-Centered Practice in Pediatrics

October 5, 2015

[Source: Handwriting is Fun] by Katherine Collmer, OTR/L In recent years, the role of OT, in general, has been changing with the waves of healthcare and education reforms. Despite a certain amount of turmoil and confusion where those changes may have thrown…...

October 5, 2015

10 October 2015, News, Newsletter, Selective Mutism

Editor’s Note: Thank You, Vera Joffe, PdD for this link! [Source: NIH via Vera Joffe] Recently, the first prospective follow-up study conducted 1 year after the end of a cognitive behavioral treatment for children with SM was published (Oerbeck et al., 2015).…...

October 5, 2015

10 October 2015, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Pre-K Pages] Making patterns with spiders is a seasonal and fun way to teach patterning! I am always looking for fun things I can use as manipulatives for learning activities, so when I found spider rings in the dollar store I knew…...

October 5, 2015

10 October 2015, Newsletter, OT, School Psych

[Source: Medical X-Press] There is seemingly no cognitive load associated with the near-instantaneous recognition of individual faces. Indeed, facial recognition is so innate and so obviously critical to human social exchange that researchers have long hypothesized that this ability has a “special…...

September 30, 2015

2 October 2015, Cerebral Palsy, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] A research group led by Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine Project Professor MORIOKA Ichirou and Professor IIJIMA Kazumoto (Department of Pediatrics) has suggested a potential method of screening for jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia), a cause of cerebral palsy and loss…...

September 30, 2015

2 October 2015, Autism, News, Newsletter, Vision

[Source EurekAlert] Visual functions, such as the perception of motion direction, start to develop soon after birth and continue to mature over time as infants gain more experience with the world. However, direct evidence of how this maturation process unfolds in the…...

September 30, 2015

2 October 2015, Newsletter, OT, SLP

Editor’s Note: This article was written largely for general education teachers, but Therapy Clinicians can also make excellent use of the game as well. Take a look at the other articles we have featured on our blog about Minecraft HERE [Source:…...

September 30, 2015

2 October 2015, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Wall Street Journal] The number of children diagnosed with autism has surged around the globe in the past two decades. But new research in Europe and the U.S. suggests much of the increase occurred on paper. In 2000, the U.S. Centers…...

September 30, 2015

2 October 2015, Article, Newsletter, OT

[Source: The EleanorOT Blog] By Eleanor Cawley M.S. OTR/L When is it time to discharge?: This is always one of the biggest questions when it comes down to CSE Meetings and whether or not to recommend services for students next year. Of…...

Sleep and Children with Cerebral Palsy

September 29, 2015

2 October 2015, Cerebral Palsy, News, Newsletter, OT, School Psych School Nursing

[Source: CanChild via Your Therapy Source] CanChild has published another excellent resource which is entitled Keeping Current In Sleep Issues Among Children with Cerebral Palsy. Here are some highlights: Studies show that rates of sleep disturbances in children with cerebral palsy are…...