Editor’s Note: We recently have been asking some of our favorite bloggers to v review a couple of games by Blue Orange Games. Thank You Ruth Morgan, of Chapel Hill Snippets for her second review — of Tell Tale! The game we…...
[Source: Special Ed Post] by Valerie Lego – More than five million children in this country are diagnosed with ADHD, but how many of them truly have the disorder? Could some of those children be eating something that only makes them appear…...
[Source: Friendship Circle.com] How Balance Works Ears play a large role in balance due to the vestibular system which arises in the inner ear and is responsible for processing movement, changes in head positions and the direction and speed of movement. The…...
[Source: ASHAsphere] by Betsy Schreiber How can our clients better incorporate new skills into their speech in their daily lives? It seems that they are often limited by their social interactions with caregivers, parents or spouses, so that they can’t practice or complete speech…...
[Source: Science Daily] New research from the University of Reading shows that Ice Age people living in Europe 15,000 years ago might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, man and bark, that in some cases could still…...
[Source: Special Needs Book Review] High fives to Jill Howlett Mays, OTR/L, Her first book, published in October 2011, is exactly the advice needed by parents, caretakers, and educators working with infants to children aged ten. Most importantly the advice and easy-to-do,…...
[Source: Your Therapy Source] This is great!!! – A picture says a thousand words but head on over to YourTherapySource for more details and uses for this simple adapted straw holder. ...
[Source: Complex Child E-Magazine] Imagine you are a preschooler with cerebral palsy, unable to control your muscle movements or communicate with your voice. Imagine that on one particular day, your mother dresses you in your purple scratchy dress, even though you hate…...
by Jeremy Legaspi, MS CCC-SLP This post is hopefully the start of an open dialog among colleagues about Auditory Processing Disorders. I have had this post in draft mode for some time and it’s almost the start of a larger post but due to the recent…...
[Source: Science Daily] The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), a comprehensive behavioral early intervention program that is appropriate for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as young as 12 months, has been found to reduce the need for ASD therapies and special…...