[Source: Science Daily] Slacker or go-getter? Everyone knows that people vary substantially in how hard they are willing to work, but the origin of these individual differences in the brain remains a mystery. Now the veil has been pushed back by a…...
Editor’s Note: While the death of Junior Seau is not strictly a pediatric story, perhaps we as therapists of our youth need to be more vocal about the potential dangers of football with the parents and guardians of our kiddos. [Source: ABC…...
Two of my favorite bloggers (Ruth Morgan at Chapel Hill Snippets and Adeline’s Mom at We Can Do All Things) have written about this site recently and I wanted to make sure all of you knew about it too! Tar Heel Reader…...
Here is a really cute idea posted on the excellent blog Childhood 101 Would be a fun ‘craftivity’ for Mother’s Day! We attend a great playgroup once a week and this was one of our recent creative projects – a cardboard…...
We are so excited to have released TxTools, our very first App for iDevices. Its been fun so far and we are already are starting to get great feedback and even reviews. Do you have comments and suggestions for how we can…...
Melissa & Doug winner, Alicia Keesling (left) with PediaStaff’s HR Representative, Diane Marzec (right) We are back from chilly Indianapolis and AOTA 2012! What a great show we had. The app and LessonPix giveaways were a big success. Booth visitors were…...
by: David W Hammer, MA CCC-SLP, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA UPMC Please note: I will be using the term “client” to refer to the children and adolescents in this article. I feel this is a happy-medium between “patient” in a hospital setting…...
[Source: Disability Scoop] Annie Clark was born with no hands, but that’s not stopping the Pennsylvania first-grader who just won a national penmanship contest. Clark, 7, was honored this week by Zaner-Bloser, an education publishing company, as one of two winners of…...
[Source: CNN] Editor’s note: Rob Gorski writes for “Lost and Tired,” where he blogs about the reality of raising three boys on the autism spectrum. He and his wife, Lizze, have three boys, Gavin,12, Elliott, 6, and Emmett John, 3. Canton, Ohio…...