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OT Tip of the Week: Zippering a Problem? Try This!

July 13, 2015

17 July 2015, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Pediatric Occupational Therapy Tips] Here is a quick and easy idea to help a child manipulate a zipper on a backpack, lunchbox, or jacket. All you need is a medium to large sized split key ring. The zipper pull will need…...

July 9, 2015

10 July 2015, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Medical XPress] If you’ve ever been pregnant, did you have a saying you’d repeat to yourself—something about taking things one day at a time, or maybe even wishing that men could know what it’s like to carry a child? Or did…...

July 9, 2015

10 July 2015, Career, Job, Newsletter, PT

Congratulations to Allison U., on her placement with a PediaStaff client South of Chicago, Illinois as a School Based PT for the 2015-6 school year. The setting has a caseload of children with multiple therapy needs and will give her the opportunity to…...

July 9, 2015

10 July 2015, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: The Measured Mom] Fine motor activities are so important to strengthen little hands before they’re ready to do all the writing that’s waiting for them in kindergarten and beyond. Try some of these simple, low-prep activities! For years, I’ve seen fun…...

July 8, 2015

Anxiety, GAD, News, Newsletter 10 July 2015, OT, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] The study from the Department of Psychiatry and the Health Emotions Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows how an over-active brain circuit involving three brain areas inherited from generation to generation may set the stage for developing…...

July 8, 2015

10 July 2015, ADLs, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: No Time for Flash Cards] Identifying coins is something I never remember learning because I always seemed to know it. I think the reason why was that I used them much more than my kids do at the same age. I…...

July 8, 2015

[Source: Medical News Today] Young children, who possess a good understanding of their own emotions and of those of their fellow human beings early on, suffer fewer attention problems than their peers with a lower emotional understanding. Evidence of this phenomenon was…...

July 7, 2015

10 July 2015, Newsletter, OT, PT, Tip or Resource

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Here is an easy outdoor activity to challenge body awareness, motor planning and balance skills. Find two trees about 6 feet apart. Give the child a skein of yarn or twine. Wrap the yarn around the two trees…...

July 7, 2015

10 July 2015

[Source: New York Times Well Blog] Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relevance for American parents whose children spend many hours a day focused on electronic screens.…...

July 7, 2015

Career, Job, Newsletter, SLP

If you are looking for a school position in Alaska, this may be the job for you. This school is in Anchorage and is in need of several Speech Language Pathologists. The caseloads are primarily mainstream with diagnoses such as speech delays,…...