Blog - PediaStaff

Therapy Ideas of the Week – Conversation Heart Writing and Footprint Valentines!

January 31, 2012

2012, 3 February, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Valentine’s Day is around the corner! Here are our two favorite ideas that have been extremely popular! Here is the original post for Conversation Heart Writing from Teaching with TLC Here is the original post for the Footprint Valentine Heart from the…...

January 30, 2012

3 February 2012, Language, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Medicical Express] Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain’s cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received — a place famously known as Wernicke’s area after the German neurologist who proposed…...

January 30, 2012

3 February 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Daily Mail] Teaching children with autism to ‘talk things through’ in their heads may help them solve tricky day-to-day tasks and could increase the chances of them living independent lives when they grow up, say scientists. Psychologists who studied adults with…...

January 30, 2012

Last week we brought you a storyabout a 12 girls (now as many as 16 students) at a school in New York who have mysteriously developed tics and other bizarre symptoms. This past week, both the National Institutes of Health and environmental…...

January 30, 2012

3 February 2012, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: The Atlantic] Thanks to Loren Shlaes of the Pediatric OT blog for sending us the link to this article. While I don’t think anyone would advocate doing away with car seats, the article brings up some good points. What do you…...

January 27, 2012

27 January 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Columbia Spectator via The Autism News] Researchers at Columbia may be making strides toward understanding the neurological disorder of autism–starting with, of all places, the intestine, according to a recent study. Dr. Brent Williams, an associate research scientist from the Mailman…...

January 27, 2012

27 January 2012, Newsletter

Sunita received her B.A. from North Carolina State University in Psychology. While completing her degree and for two years thereafter, she worked with children with special needs. She then went on to obtain her Masters of Science in occupational therapy at Washington…...

January 26, 2012

27 January 2012, Article, Music Therapy, Newsletter, SLP, Stuttering

By: Kimberly Sena Moore, MM, NMT-F, MT-BC; Board Certified Music Therapist The first real breakthrough for King George VI came when his speech therapist, Lionel Logue, had him read pages of text while listening to music through headphones. King George VI, known…...

January 26, 2012

27 January 2012, Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

By: Alejandro Brice, Ph.D, CCC-SLP, Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Roanne Brice, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Introduction The notion of typical language development has far too long been predicated on monolingual development. It is estimated that approximately 80% of the world’s population speaks more…...

#SLPeeps Discussion Board on Pinterest

January 25, 2012

Great idea was proposed on Twitter today that we keep track of all the #SLPeeps who are on Pinterest. How to Participate: Simply follow the hyperlink at the bottom of this post and add your Pinterest Username (as well as your followed…...