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Trickle-Down Anxiety: Study Examines Parental Behaviors That Create Anxious Children

November 5, 2012

Anxiety, Newsletter, 9 November 2012, School Psych

[Source Science Daily] Parents with social anxiety disorder are more likely than parents with other forms of anxiety to engage in behaviors that put their children at high risk for developing angst of their own, according to a small study of parent-child…...

November 1, 2012

2 November 2012, Article, Newsletter, OT, SPD

[Source: LD Made Easy] Transitions are particularly hard for some children and extremely difficult for most children with sensory issues. It isn’t just the air and the leaves that are changing it are the clothes that the children are wearing changes too.…...

November 1, 2012

Autism, Executive Function, Newsletter, 2 November 2012, SLP

Editor’s Note: Speech Lady Jen of Therapy and Learning Services, Inc wishes to thank Tara Roehl, MS,CCC-SLP for writing this guest post for the SpeechladyJen Blog community. You can find Tara’s blog at http://www.speechykeenslp.com/. Teenagers with executive functioning difficulties often struggle to…...

November 1, 2012

2 November 2012, Article, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: Special Ed Post] by Carlo Pandian Naturally adverse to dealing with new situations and communicating with other people, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face numerous challenges in dealing with day to day life in which new situations come as part of the…...

October 31, 2012

2 November 2012, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

‘Tis definitely starting to approach “the season.” Halloween is this week and Turkey Day is around the corner. Please enjoy the great big Thanksgiving Pinterest Pinboard we have compiled, now in year two, with 485 pins and counting! Visit the PediaStaff Thanksgiving…...

October 31, 2012

2 November 2012, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

One thing that I love about Pinterest is that the “good stuff” speaks for itself. This week’s choice for a Pinterest related shoutout is a great example. I pinned seven recent blog posts by “Ms. Lane” off of the new SLP blog …...

October 31, 2012

Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, 3 November 2012

[Source: Mama OT.com] Tongs, tweezers, and chopsticks are great for developing hand skills necessary for cutting with scissors and writing with pencils. Earlier this week I shared a DIY tutorial on how to make kiddie chopsticks, and I mentioned that the ability…...

October 30, 2012

2 November 2012, ASHA, News, Newsletter

Things are really coming together for the social media booth PediaStaff is hosting at ASHA! As promised, here is the booth schedule! So far, the booth is staffed with 15 of the communities best and brightest #SLPeeps who will be teaching mini-sessions…...

October 30, 2012

23 November 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] The development of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is much like that of children without ASD at 6 months of age, but differs afterwards. That’s the main finding of the largest prospective, longitudinal study to date comparing children…...

October 30, 2012

2 November 2012, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Special Ed Post] All his life, when Clinton Gode wanted to do something — learn to swim, ride a quad, show goats in 4-H — his parents helped him figure out how to make it happen. No matter that he has…...