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Focus on Bilingualism: Language Screening and Assessment in Bilingual Children

October 16, 2013

18 October 2013, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

By: Virginia Li, Ashley Springer CCC-SLP, and Danielle Dietz CCC-SLP – Pathways.org Approximately 1 in 5 school-age children in the United States speak a language other than English at home, up from 1 in 7 two decades ago [1]. As this demographic…...

October 16, 2013

18 October 2013, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Sensory

I saw this photo on a friend’s FB page with a caption that said the cob/core is a banana. I googled it and found the original post on Instructables.com. The core is actually chilled sugar cookie dough. (There are egg free recipes)…...

October 16, 2013

18 October 2013, Newsletter, Placement, SLP

Congratulations to Megan T., on her SLP-CFY position at one of PediaStaff’s public school-based clients in the Land Of Lakes – Minnesota! Megan will be working with “speech only” students as well as with children with multiple disabilities in an elementary school…...

October 15, 2013

18 October 2013, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Halloween is second only to Christmas for pediatric therapists when it comes to the great activities out there that make sessions fun. Before the social media explosion, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists and PTs had search the internet (and before that local…...

Book Review: Autism Sleeps

October 15, 2013

18 October 2013, Autism, Newsletter

Review by Margaret Rice If you are like me, you have frequently had questions from parents regarding how to help their children with sensory processing difficulties fall asleep and to stay asleep. Now there is Autism Sleeps, written by Ileana McCaigue, OTR, who…...

Young Apes Manage Emotions Like Humans

October 14, 2013

Emotions, Newsletter, 18 October 2013, OT, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Researchers studying young bonobos in an African sanctuary have discovered striking similarities between the emotional development of the bonobos and that of children, suggesting these great apes regulate their emotions in a human-like way. This is important to human…...

October 14, 2013

18 October 2013, Article, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: My Aspergers Child] Some children with Aspergers and High-Functioning Autism are known for their “explosive” and “out-of-control” behavior. This is referred to as “blind rage.” A blind rage is “blind” in the sense that the affected child may not be totally…...

October 14, 2013

ADHD, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Medical News Today] Tests of brainwaves using EEG may be helpful in distinguishing subtypes of ADHD, helping to diagnose whether a teen’s symptoms are mainly inattention or mainly hyperactivity and impulsiveness. The two subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are known as…...

October 14, 2013

18 October 2013, Article, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Your Therapy Source and Loren Shlaes for calling attention to this excellent blog post! by Denita Dinger For some reason, we adults feel we should come to the rescue of young children and solve problems for them. …...

October 10, 2013

11 October 2013, News, Newsletter, SLP, Stuttering

[Source: Science Daily] A new study by a University of Alberta researcher shows that children who stutter have less grey matter in key regions of the brain responsible for speech production than children who do not stutter.The findings not only improve our…...