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Feel Good Story of the Week: Amazing 11-Year Old Brazilian Footballer With No Feet, All the Rage in Rio (Video)

September 5, 2012

26 Jne 2020, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: This is an oldie but goodie!! [Source: Huffington Post] Gabriel Muniz may have been born without feet, but that hasn’t stopped the 11-year-old soccer wunderkind from honing his skills as a formidable sportsman. In fact, Muniz, who is from Brazil,…...

September 5, 2012

7 September 2012, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, PT, Tip or Resource

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this creative physical activity that received over 250 repins last week on our Pinterest site. Get up and Move Dice by Growing a Jeweled Rose [Source: Growing a Jeweled Rose] After the fun homemade toddler games I featured…...

September 5, 2012

7 September 2012, Article, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism] Does back-to-school make your stomach do backflips? Ours, too. So we asked some of TPGA’s contributors what they wish they’d known — as parents, or as students — about the back-to-school season. Here’s what they shared:…...

September 4, 2012

[Source: University of Melbourne] Speech pathology researcher Prof Nan Bernstein Ratnerm Professor and Chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, discusses the condition of stuttering, how research into stuttering informs models of language acquisition, and possible therapies for the condition.…...

September 4, 2012

7 September 2012, News, Newsletter

[Source: BBC] For the first time in 12 years athletes with learning disabilities can compete in The Paralympic games. The category was banned after the Sydney 2000 Paralympics when it emerged players on the Spanish basketball team had faked having a disability. …...

September 4, 2012

7 September 2012, News, Newsletter

[Source: The Washington Post] by: Jay Mathews Raising the achievement of students with learning disabilities is hard, expensive, controversial and complex. School systems must pay private school tuition for students they can’t adequately serve. Educators and parents sometimes disagree on what methods…...

September 4, 2012

7 September 2012, Cooridination, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

I found this video in my Google Alerts this morning showing off the amazing motor dexterity of three year old Nathan Robles, who is division champion of the World Sport Stacking Association Seeing the video reminded me that “speed stacking” (now called…...

SLP Corner: Can Everybody Be Bilingual?

August 30, 2012

31 August 2012, Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

By: Lucy Windevoxhel, M.S., CCC-SLP Can everybody be bilingual? Lately a new article researching bilingualism pops up almost every single week. It seems that there is a growing awareness of the importance and advantages of being bilingual for the general population.…...

August 30, 2012

31 August 2012, News of the Week, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Temper tantrums in young children can be an early signal of mental health problems, but how does a parent or pediatrician know when disruptive behavior is typical or a sign of a serious problem? New Northwestern Medicine research will…...

August 30, 2012

31 August 2012, Article, Bilingualism

By: Alejandro E. Brice, Ph.D.,CCC-SLP, Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, and Roanne Brice, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Previous Viewpoint The idea for this column comes to me via the courtesy of the ASHA Multicultural Issues Board. I am the Chair of this committee for…...