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Why do Some Children with Autism React Strongly to Noise?

January 20, 2014

Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter, 24 January 2014, SPD

[Source: CBS News] CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook and CBS News contributor Dr. Holly Phillips joined “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to discuss the major medical stories of the week. A new study is shedding light on one of the…...

January 20, 2014

24 January 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Medical News Today] When listening to someone speak, we also rely on lip-reading and gestures to help us understand what the person is saying. To link these sights and sounds, the brain has to know where each stimulus is located so it…...

January 16, 2014

17 January 2014, Autism, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

The Daily Autism Freebie is a deceptively simple compilation blog that serves up a free resource every day without fanfare. We would probably pin all of them into Pinterest, but the authors of this blog do not put an accompanying image…...

January 16, 2014

17 January 2013, Newsletter, Placement

Congratulations to Mary B., on her part-time school based occupational therapist position with one of PediaStaff’s clients in a suburb of Minneapolis. She will work one day a week with children ages 3-5. The majority of the children have developmental delay…...

Speech Means Using Both Sides of Brain

January 16, 2014

17 January 2014, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] We use both sides of our brain for speech, a finding by researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center that alters previous conceptions about neurological activity. The results, which appear in the journal Nature, also offer insights…...

January 16, 2014

17 January 2014, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Like watching a foreign movie that was badly dubbed, children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have trouble integrating simultaneous information from their eyes and their ears, according to a Vanderbilt study published today in The Journal of Neuroscience. The study,…...

January 15, 2014

17 January 2014, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Fab Strategies to Promote Self Control] Intervention strategies promoting body awareness can improve behavior in children and adolescents with sensory processing, trauma history, developmental, and mental health challenges. Improving youngster’s body awareness is particularly important for children and adolescents because it…...

January 15, 2014

OT, PT, SLP, Tip or Resource

Snowman Bowling!! Thank You! to @khowland4 on Instagram for permission to re-gram and blog this adorable idea. She uses them in speech for reward activity and for social skills turn taking, etc. How much work completed determined how many times the kids…...

January 14, 2014

17 January 2014, Feeding Issues, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: ASHAsphere] by Melanie Potock MA, CCC-SLP Sippy Cups became all the rage in the 1980s, along with oversized shoulder pads, MC Hammer parachute pants and bangs that stood up like a water spout on top of your head. A mechanical engineer, tired…...

January 14, 2014

17 January 2014, Autism, News

[Source: Science Daily] In a study of the range of treatments being employed for young children with autism and other developmental delays, UC Davis MIND Institute researchers have found that families often use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments and that the…...