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April 1, 2014

4 April 2014, Book, Newsletter, Preemies

[Source: Preemie World.com] With great honesty, author Jennifer Schwertfeger takes us through her 24-weeker Grace’s miraculous 9-month NICU journey from troublesome pregnancy to birth to NICU to home and into the school years. This book is helpful to parents of preemies at…...

April 1, 2014

4 April 2014, Bullying, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: NPR.org] Movies like Mean Girls have told us that the popular crowd rules, and the nerds and nonconformists get picked on. But even the top rungs of high school social ladder aren’t immune to bullying, researchers say. Becoming more popular can actually increase…...

April 1, 2014

4 April 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT

Very interesting article. Thank you to Loren Shlaes of the pediatricOT blog [Source: Boing Boing] The Swanson School in Auckland, NZ, quietly eliminated all the rules against “unsafe play,” allowing kids to play swordfight with sticks, ride scooters, and climb trees. It…...

Sample School Psychologist CV

April 1, 2014

Below you will find a link to a sample CV we have created for a school psychologist. Feel free to use it as a template. View/Download Sample CV...

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March 31, 2014

Career, Newsletter, PediaStaff

The PediaStaff Weekly newsletter a weekly newsletter featuring pediatric therapy news – including research and articles aggregated from the Internet’s top medical and news feeds. You will find therapy ideas and activities, career resources, (including interview and job search tips), information on…...

March 31, 2014

4 April 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter, SPD

[Source: ABC Therapeutics] I was very happy to see another article on weighted vests in the current issue of AJOT (Lin, Lee, Chang, and Hong, 2014). The last opportunity we had to look at this issue was the excellent pilot study completed…...

March 31, 2014

4 April 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] In a study of 14,000 U.S. children, 40 percent lack strong emotional bonds – what psychologists call “secure attachment” – with their parents that are crucial to success later in life, according to a new report. The researchers…...

March 27, 2014

28 March 2014, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Medical News Today] In life, many tasks have a context that dictates the right actions, so when people learn to do something new, they’ll often infer cues of context and rules. In a new study, Brown University brain scientists took advantage…...

CDC: 1 in 68 U.S. Children has Autism

March 27, 2014

28 March 2014, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: CNN] One in 68 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a 30% increase from 1 in 88 two years ago, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This newest estimate is…...

March 27, 2014

Ever get annoyed that you can’t click on a link that we (or anyone) puts in their Instagram posts? Here is an easy Workaround Tip just for you! From within Instagram, bring up the post that has the link you want to…...