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App Site of the Week: (Or Maybe Even the Year) – The Friendship Circle App Review

February 6, 2013

8 February 2013, App Review, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

With over a thousand apps now available to help individuals with special needs it has become increasingly difficult to find and choose the right special needs app. The Friendship Circle App Review gives you the ability to find the perfect special needs…...

Can Breakfast Make Kids Smarter?

February 6, 2013

8 February 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] New research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing has found that children who regularly have breakfast on a near-daily basis had significantly higher full scale, verbal, and performance IQ test scores. In one of the first studies…...

February 5, 2013

8 January 2013, Article, Balance, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter, Proprioreception

[Source: North Shore Pediatric Therapy] Balance, like many things, will only get better with practice and through challenging the balance systems. However, it can be hard to find time after school to work on balance activities when kids already have mountains of…...

February 5, 2013

8 January 2013, Adaptation, Newsletter

What a great idea! No wonder it lead last week for most repins from our Pinterest board to yours! Thank you to Able Studios for posting this great idea that is going viral on Pinterest. Thank You to Your Therapy Source for…...

February 4, 2013

8 February 2013, Hearing Loss, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Cartilage tympanoplasty can be performed successfully in 95 percent of young children when appropriate conditions exist, according to a study in the February 2013 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. “Pediatric tympanoplasty is a frequently performed procedure with varying…...

February 4, 2013

8 February 2013, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A New York-based physician-researcher from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, best known for his research into fertility and twinning, has uncovered a potential connection between autism and a specific growth protein that could eventually be used as a way…...

February 4, 2013

8 February 2013, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Children born to mothers who took the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate during pregnancy are at significantly increased risk of autism and other neruodevelopmental disorders. The finding came from new research published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and…...

January 31, 2013

1 Feburary 2013, Multiple Sclerosis, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] Being obese may increase the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) in children and teenage girls, according to new research published in the January 30, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.…...

SLP Corner: Empower Your Families

January 30, 2013

1 February 2013, Article, Language, Newsletter, SLP

by Carrie Clark, MA CCC-SLP I have always noticed that the children on my caseload with the most involved and devoted families make the fastest progress. These are the parents who are always asking for homework and talking about the little milestones…...

January 30, 2013

[Source: Apps for Homeschooling] BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week is a truly unique app in that it covers a great width and breadth of common knowledge-based topics in the early grades through high interest animated shorts. Each week a free Movie…...