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Oxytocin May Make the Brain Take Notice of Faces in Autism

August 19, 2013

26 August 2013, News

[Source: Medical News Today] Difficulty in registering and responding to the facial expressions of other people is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Relatedly, functional imaging studies have shown that individuals with ASD display altered brain activations when processing facial images.…...

August 15, 2013

16 August 2013, Handwriting, Newsletter, OT

by Katherine Collmer, OTR/L Elementary school children spend 30-60% of their classroom time working at their desks on fine motor skills, predominantly on tasks involving handwriting. A visual sweep of the classroom scene will uncover as many seated body postures as there…...

August 15, 2013

16 August 2013, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] An international consortium has shown for the first time evidence of substantial overlap of genetic risk factors shared between bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia and less overlap between those conditions and autism and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),…...

August 15, 2013

16 August 2013, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: SLPs, you are gonna LOVE this!! Watch Tom Thum HERE!! ...

Link Between ADHD, Allergies and Asthma

August 15, 2013

ADHD, News, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: We do not link the headline Science Daily used on this article as it implies a causal relationship, but the fact the study is documenting co-morbidity is important. [Source: Science Daily] The number of children being diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder…...

Brain Scans May Help Diagnose Dyslexia

August 14, 2013

16 August 2013, Dyslexia, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] About 10 percent of the U.S. population suffers from dyslexia, a condition that makes learning to read difficult. Dyslexia is usually diagnosed around second grade, but the results of a new study from MIT could help identify those children…...

Product Review: Thera-Togs

August 14, 2013

16 August 2013, Newsletter, Product Review, PT, Tip or Resource

by Stacy Menz, DPT, Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist In the pediatric therapy world there are a plethora of tools, equipment, gadgets and other devices designed to be therapeutic and helpful when working with kids. One of these items that we frequently…...

We Want to See YOUR Therapy Space!

August 14, 2013

16 August 2013, Newsletter

Well, we’ve only been on Instagram a week, but we are already having so much fun! After we started seeing pictures of friends’ therapy rooms (and posted a picture of my own cave here at PediaStaff!), I thought it might be fun…...

August 13, 2013

16 August 2013, Back to School, Newsletter

Some of you still have a few weeks of summer to enjoy, but those of us in the south are heading back to school as we speak! As you know, Pinterest is just a treasure trove of great activities suitable for therapy…...

August 13, 2013

16 August 2013, Newsletter, SLP, Social Media, Tip or Resource

I was honored to be the featured guest yesterday, on Laura Mize’s Blog Talk Radio show, Teach Me to Talk. Teach Me to Talk is an excellent weekly live show for parents and…...