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Seasonal Activities of the Week: 35 Pumpkin Crafts

September 29, 2015

2 October 2015, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: Motherhood on a Dime via Hands On As We Grow] Fall is the perfect season for pumpkin everything! Mix fun and learning with these cute pumpkin crafts for kids! So many fun and easy pumpkin crafts for kids to make! I’ve shared fun pumpkin…...

September 29, 2015

2 October 2015, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: Oh my goodness I love this! Thank You to Luke and Holly of Home-Speech Home for the great idea of making Lego Jello Gummies for yummy use in speech therapy! Please Visit Home-Speech-Home for the link to the YouTube…...

September 29, 2015

2 October 2015, App, Article, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Speech Techie] Following up on my last post on the “Toca Life” open-ended sandbox-style apps, I recently read a “Clinical Focus” article in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and thought it shed light on how these apps (and others) can be…...

September 28, 2015

2 October 2015, Job, Newsletter, SLP

Congratulations to Esther S., on her new position as a School Based CF-SLP at PediaStaff’s new client in Ohio. This position is in the Warrensville Heights area, southeast of Cleveland. Esther will work with students grades K-3 at one school site. This position is…...

September 28, 2015

2 October 2015, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] How much does your baby weigh? All new parents are familiar with that question. Perhaps their reply is more important than we realize. Birth weight affects how much trust an individual will have in other people in his…...

September 28, 2015

2 October 2015, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] The survival rate of preemies born between 26 to 31 weeks of gestation is improved by blocking light from reaching the intravenously-fed infused nutritious mixture they depend on for survival, researchers at CHU Sainte-Justine and the University of…...

September 28, 2015

2 October 2015, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] A spoken language is more than just words and sounds. Speakers use changes in pitch and rhythm, known as prosody, to provide emphasis, show emotion, and otherwise add meaning to what they say. But a language does not need…...

September 24, 2015

25 September 2015, Newsletter, School Psych

Editor’s Note: Perhaps our country could learn something outside our nations borders about mental health care in schools! [Source: Medical News Today] A national school-based mental health program that is now reaching almost one quarter of all elementary school students in Chile…...

September 24, 2015

25 September 2015, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, School Psych

[Source: Medical News Today] To learn about the world around them, young children depend on information provided by others. But that’s not always the best strategy: kids will sometimes take everything grown-ups say at face value, even if they’re unreliable. New research…...

SLP Corner: Working on Inference Skills

September 24, 2015

25 September 2015, Inferencing, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Speechbloguk] Today I’m going to talk about inferencing. This is one of those words that we use a lot as speech therapists and teachers use a fair bit as well, but I don’t think it means a lot to other people! …...