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Gross Motor Activity of the Week: Walk the Line

December 23, 2014

24 December 2014, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Moving Smart] Have you ever noticed kids love lines? Not the kind you stand in or color outside of, but the kind you walk on. Cracks in the sidewalk, painted lines on the blacktop, stone walls, balance beams, ordinary ropes or…...

December 23, 2014

[Source: Science Insider] Federal officials are pulling the plug on an ambitious plan hatched 14 years ago to follow the health of 100,000 U.S. children from before birth to age 21. The National Children’s Study (NCS), which has struggled to get off…...

December 23, 2014

24 December 2014, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

I know everyone is thinking about Christmas right now (and probably have one foot out the door so you can enjoy some vacation time with your loved ones), but New Year’s Day is just around the corner. The theme of the…...

December 23, 2014

24 December 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter, Prader Willi

[Source: Pediatrics via Your Therapy Source] Pediatrics published research on the effects of physical training combined with growth hormone (GH) on muscle thickness and its relationship with muscle strength and motor development in 22 infants with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) followed over 2 years.…...

December 22, 2014

24 December 2014, Career Tip, Newsletter, SLP

Editor’s Note: Here is a great year end round-up resource for your professional development. While they were designed for SLPs they can be adapted for any clinical professional in the schools! [Source: The Dabbling Speechie] Self reflection is one of the HARDEST…...

December 22, 2014

Article, IEP, Newsletter, OT, PT, School Psych, SLP, Special Ed

[Source: Friendship Circle] During most discussions about IEPs, we talk about the times that things went wrong and disgraceful things were said. But not all IEPs are like that! Recently a commenter on the Friendship Circle blog wrote, “Instead of ridiculous and offensive comments, why don’t…...

December 22, 2014

24 December 2014, Autism, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a possible therapy to treat neurofibromatosis type 1 or NF1, a childhood neurological disease characterized by learning deficits and autism that is caused by inherited mutations in the gene encoding a protein…...

December 18, 2014

Anxiety, Article, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Brain Blogger.com] by Sherianna Boyle MEd, CAGS Anxiety is most known as a “thinking” disorder which can be evidenced through symptoms such as chronic worrying. Science now shows that human beings have on average between 60,000 and 70,000 thoughts per day…...

December 18, 2014

Early Intervention, News of the Week, Newsletter, NICU

[Source: Science Daily] A study conducted by University of Granada scientists (from the Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments) and from the San Cecilio Clinical Hospital (Granada) has demonstrated that delaying the cutting of the umbilical cord in newborns by two minutes leads…...

December 18, 2014

19 December 2014, Fragile X, News of the Week

[Source: Medical News Today] A learning technique that maximizes the brain’s ability to make and store memories may help overcome cognitive issues seen in fragile X syndrome, a leading form of intellectual disability, according to UC Irvine neurobiologists. Christine Gall, Gary Lynch…...