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June 3, 2015

5 June 2015, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: I absolutely LOVE this!!!! [Source: I Can Teach My Child] My three year-olds are intrigued by dot-to-dot puzzles, but struggle with the fine motor skills required to draw the line from one dot to the next. They often can’t tell…...

AAC Corner: Video Modeling for AAC

June 3, 2015

5 June 2015, AAC, Article, Newsletter

[Source: Teaching Learners with Special Needs] Video Modeling is an evidence based practice in special education. Entire new companies have popped up claiming their way of doing it is magical even! However, it doesn’t take much to do effective video modeling for any…...

June 3, 2015

5 June 2015, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Learning 4 Kids.net] Digging For Dinosaur Fossils Sensory Bin: I previously shared an activity here on How to make Dinosaur Fossils? This is how we played with them! We simply painted white circles onto the back of the dinosaur fossils and…...

June 3, 2015

5 June 2015, Article, Multiculturalism, Newsletter, SLP. Bilingualism

[Source: Bilinguistics] I’m a bilingual SLP, but when it comes to evaluating students who speak Kenyarwanda, Pashto, Tosk, and Thai, I am just as monolingual as the 95 percent of our field who self-report themselves as monolingual. Unlike many of the SLPs…...

OT Student in the News!

June 2, 2015

5 June 2015, Cerebral Palsy, News, Newsletter, OT, PT

We all know what it’s like to wake up and wish we had another couple hours’ slumber before beginning our day, but children with cerebral palsy have a hard time falling asleep in the first place. University of Alberta student Risha Dutt…...

June 2, 2015

ADHD, OT, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] A new study links a commonly used household pesticide with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and young teens. The study found an association between pyrethroid pesticide exposure and ADHD, particularly in terms of hyperactivity and impulsivity, rather…...

June 2, 2015

5 June 2015, Article, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: The Conversation via Your Therapy Source] Hayley Leonard, Goldsmiths, University of London and Elisabeth L Hill, Goldsmiths, University of London Learning to sit up, crawl and walk are all major milestones in a child’s early development – and parents often record…...

June 1, 2015

5 June 2015, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Researchers are exploring new approaches to designing prosthetic hands capable of providing “sensory feedback.” Advances toward developing prostheses with a sense of touch are presented in a special topic article in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive…...

June 1, 2015

Literacy, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Beginning readers who focus on letter-sound relationships, or phonics, instead of trying to learn whole words, increase activity in the area of their brains best wired for reading, according to new Stanford research investigating how the brain responds to…...

May 29, 2015

29 May 2015, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: I Can Teach My Child] We have had so much fun with these LEGO picture puzzles! The boys and I just laughed and laughed at the combinations they created. And the LEGO “puzzles” took only a few minutes to make once I…...