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A Dozen Tips for Supporting Early Speech Development In Children with Severe Childhood Apraxia of Speech

May 22, 2012

25 May 2012, Article, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, SLP

By: Margaret A. Fish, M.S., CCC-SLP Editor’s Note: PediaStaff would like to thank CASANA/Apraxia-Kids for introducing us to this wonderful CAS expert! Young children with suspected childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and children with very severe CAS present unique challenges to speech-language…...

May 22, 2012

25 May 2012, Article, Bilingualism

By: Alejandro Brice, Ph.D, CCC-SLP, Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Roanne Brice, Ph.D., CCC-SL Introduction As bilingual speech-language pathologists, one of the more complex issues to convey to others is that bilingualism is a unique experience and that bilingual or multilingual speakers…...

Therapists Doing Good: Shoes 4 Kids

May 21, 2012

25 May 2012, News

Thanks to Margaret at Your Therapy Source for alerting us to this fantastic project. Please support our contributors and visit Your Therapy Source!! Brad Thuringer is an enthusiastic PTA who started Shoes4Kids. I posted about this organization last year which you can…...

Head Lag and Autism

May 21, 2012

25 May 2012, Autism, Newsletter

Thank you to Margaret Rice of Your Therapy Source for calling this research to our attention: Recent research indicates that infants who exhibit a head lag are at risk for autism, language and/or social development delays. Forty infants who were considered at…...

May 21, 2012

25 May 2012, Autism, News

[Source: Medical News Today] Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that oxytocin – a naturally occurring substance produced in the brain and throughout the body – increased brain function in regions that are known…...

May 18, 2012

Shelli is in her sixth year as a pediatric therapy recruiter. She has been with PediaStaff, Inc. since the company was founded in 2006, and prior to that was a Sr. Consultant for both PediaStaff of FL, LLC and Kay Concepts. Prior…...

May 18, 2012

18 May 2012, Newsletter

What a great idea! The folks at OT for Kids in Rockville Maryland are using the super-fun (and highly addictive) free game Draw Something for OT practice! Start a game and help a kiddo learn to draw! Hooray! Their username is OTforKids!…...

May 17, 2012

18 May 2012, AAC, Article

by: One of The Speech Dudes (Dude #1) I have a proverbial bee in my bonnet today related to the sloppy way that some folks seem to think that designing an AAC system is just a matter of (a) collecting a list of…...

Ping Pong Ball Match

May 16, 2012

18 May 2012, Newsletter, OT, Visual Discrimination

Here is one I absolutely love! I stumbled on it on Pinterest. It was originally posted to a blog called the OTs Bag. It’s a visual discrimination/following directions activity called “Ping Pong Ball Match.” Unfortunately the blog doesn’t exist…...

May 15, 2012

18 May 2012, Language Development, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Short but intense training sessions in the form of structured language games from the age of four can stimulate children’s early language development and may also make it easier for children to learn to read. This is found in…...