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November 18, 2014

21 November 2014, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, PT, Sensory Motor Skills - Sensory Integration, Tip or Resource, Video

Here is a sample activity from Your Therapy Source’s book, Motor Magic, Turn Fine Motor Skills into Gross Motor Skills. Video provided by Your Therapy Source...

November 18, 2014

21 November 2014, Career, Job, Newsletter, SLP

PediaStaff is seeking a full time Speech-Language Pathologist for the bustling Greater Portland area. You will have the opportunity to work with children ages 3 to 5 in center based settings. This job starts as soon as possible. This is a…...

November 18, 2014

21 November 2014, Newsletter, OT, Sensory Play, Sensory Processing, Tip or Resource

[Source: Growing a Jeweled Rose] This cranberry sensory activity was easy to set up and kept Jewel and Rosie engaged for quite a while. They found so many ways to play and explore. All you need for this activity is a bag…...

November 18, 2014

Article, February 2010, Newsletter, OT, Psychology, PT, SLP, TBI

All material Copyright © 2010 Lash & Associates Publishing/Training, Inc. This article is reprinted with the express permission of Lash & Associates. By: Marilyn Lash, M.S.W. How does the child’s brain recover after a brain injury? “Traumatic brain injury in childhood is…...

Down Syndrome and Language Acquisition

November 17, 2014

Article, Down Syndrome, Early Intervention, January 2010, Language, Newsletter, SLP

By: Kimberley Powell Children with Down syndrome can face many challenges, health problems, hearing impairments and learning disabilities, including those affecting language development. Most children begin learning language skills, such as grammar and speaking, at rapid rates early in their lives. Children…...

November 17, 2014

Article, Bilingualism, Culture-Multiculturalism, January 2010, Newsletter, SLP

By:Scott Prath, M.A., CCC-SLP, Vice President of Bilinguistics, Keith Lebel, M.A., CCC-SLP, Bilinguistics, Marie Wirka, M.S., CCC-SLP, Bilinguistics We frequently have questions about assessment of children who speak African American English dialect. The over-representation of minority populations has been a frequent topic of discussion…...

November 17, 2014

Article, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, January 2010, Newsletter, OT

By: Andrea S. (last name omitted to protect her family’s privacy) Our son was diagnosed at the age of two with PDD-NOS, and later with Asperger’s Syndrome. At about two and a half, he started school with a special educator, speech and…...

November 17, 2014

February 2010, Newsletter, Sensory Motor Skills - Sensory Integration, Tip or Resource

[Image Credit: the Lobster Meets Peach Blog] [Source: Seth Boatright-Horowitz, Post-doc/Fellow, Neuroscience, Brown University] The tongue has one of the largest representations both in motor cortex and sensory cortex of any appendage. It’s role in basic taste/odor as well as communication and…...

November 17, 2014

Fine Motor Skills, January 2010, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

Not sure who we have to thank for showing us this blog/website, but its a good one. Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs is a very useful site specifically for teachers of children with severe, profound and complex special needs. Their blog…...

November 14, 2014

14 November 2014, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Medical News Today] A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that children who were diagnosed with depression between the ages of 3-6 have a smaller brain region involved in emotion than those who were not depressed. In the latest study, the anterior…...