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Pediatric Therapy Corner: Social Skills – Context Matters

April 18, 2013

19 April 2013, Newsletter, Social Skills

by Tasia Markoff, lifehiswayblog.wordpress.com Reprinted with permission of the Author as it appeared on the Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism Last week Nick’s science teacher mentioned in an email that he was concerned that Nick is isolating himself socially. The other kids…...

April 18, 2013

19 April 2013, Newsletter, Receptive Language, SLP

With over 700 repins combined (and counting), please check out ‘Ms. Lane’s SLP Materials’ newest Receptive Language worksheets! They are all free! Receptive Language: Understanding “Not Receptive Language: Understanding “Is” and “Is Not” Receptive Language “Negation Concepts” Receptive Language “Is or Not…...

April 18, 2013

19 April 2013, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: Here is something fun to brighten up your day that will also take you back to your comparative cognition studies! Ronan is a now four-year-old sea lion who knows how — disputing long-held notions that only animals who can mimic…...

April 17, 2013

19 April 2013, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Newsletter

All material Copyright © Apraxia-Kids.org Reprinted with the express permission of Apraxia-Kids as originally published on their website. By: Nancy Kaufman, M.A., CCC-SLP Children with childhood apraxia of speech cannot easily execute and/or coordinate oral-motor movements to combine the consonants and vowels…...

April 17, 2013

19 April 2013, Article, Newsletter, OT, SLP

Thanks to Reading Rockets for highlighting this story on their website [Source: Atlantic Monthly] by Hanna Rosen On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps for phones and tablets gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey,…...

April 17, 2013

19 April 2013, News, Newsletter, RTI

[Source: Education Week; On Special Education] More than half of the states allow, or require, response to intervention to be used as a method to evaluate if students have specific learning disabilities. But many states and districts do not have a way…...

April 17, 2013

19 April 2013, Article, Autism, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: Although our readers know most of these “Myth Busters,” this article would be a great one to share during Autism Awareness Month with your colleagues that are less familiar with autism. [Source: Care2Causes.com] I’ve been all too conscious of autism…...

Language by Mouth and by Hand

April 16, 2013

19 April 2013, Language, News, Sign Language, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Humans favor speech as the primary means of linguistic communication. Spoken languages are so common many think language and speech are one and the same. But the prevalence of sign languages suggests otherwise. Not only can Deaf communities generate…...

April 16, 2013

19 April 2013, News, Newsletter

[Science Daily.com] Children’s sense of having and owning a body differs from that of adults, indicating that our sense of physical self develops over time, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.…...

April 16, 2013

19 April 2013, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Penn State.edu] Children with autism have increased levels of genetic change in regions of the genome prone to DNA rearrangements, so called “hotspots,” according to a research discovery to be…...