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New Study Supports Uniqueness of Sensory Processing Disorder

November 30, 2011

News, SPD, SPD

[Source: SPD Foundation] New Research on Sensory Over-Responsivity (SOR) suggests possible prenatal risk factors, genetic heritability, and supports uniqueness of Sensory Processing Disorder/SOR. Dr. Hill Goldsmith, a member of the SPD Scientific Workgroup from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues recently…...

November 30, 2011

2 December 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] In the largest study of brain development in preschoolers with autism to date, a study by UC Davis MIND Institute researchers has found that 3-year-old boys with regressive autism, but not early onset autism, have larger brains than…...

Technology for Speech in the News

November 29, 2011

Thanks Alexey Salamini for sending us this video featuring Speech Buddies in the News on CBS, Smart Planet website ! So glad to see you are getting press! Read the PediaStaff Product Review on Speech Buddies featured in March of 2011...

November 29, 2011

25 November 2011, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

I fell in love with this one the minute I saw it, and while it might not be the very most repinned Pinterest pin of the week it is certainly quite popular and definitely the cutest! We f0und it from Holly Garner,…...

Art Makes Sense – Sensory Art Therapy

November 29, 2011

25 November 2011, Art Therapy, Article, Newsletter, SPD

By: Pamela Ullmann, ATR-BC, LCAT copyright 2010. Pamela Ullmann. This blog post has been reprinted with express permission of the author as it appeared on her Full Spectrum Blog Creative art making can offer unique ways for children to gain a sense…...

November 28, 2011

Playful behavior is widespread in mammals, and has important developmental consequences. A recent study of young chimpanzees shows that these animals play and develop much the same way as human children. The work, to be published in the Nov. 16 issue of…...

November 28, 2011

25 November 2011, Newsletter, Stuttering, Tip or Resource

Thanks to our friends at Heaman Comunication for reminding us of this great resource, David Daly’s Predictive Cluttering Inventory (PCI)...

November 28, 2011

25 November 2011, Article, Autism, Newsletter, Social

By: Lee A. Wilkinson, PhD, NCSP Over the past decade social stories have shown promise as a positive and proactive classroom strategy for teaching social skills to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). They continue to be widely discussed, reviewed, and recommended…...

November 21, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at PediaStaff Before all of us at PediaStaff return to our homes for a little family R&R, we wanted to send out this message to our all our readers just to say how thankful we are…...

November 21, 2011

Article, Book, OT, School Psych, Selective Mutism, SLP

All material Copyright © 2009 Selective Mutism Group ~ Childhood Anxiety Network Reprinted with the express permission of SMG as originally published on their website. By: by Gail Kervatt, M.Ed. SM children cannot talk as the result of the physical symptoms caused…...