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Worth Repeating: New Wave of Aquatic Therapy Tools

July 26, 2011

29 July 2011, News, Newsletter, OT, PT

By: Heather Stringer Source: Today in OT.com Imagine aquatic therapy before the pool noodle had been invented. It was the late 1990s and little was available specifically for rehabilitation in the water, so physical therapists used what they could — kickboards and…...

July 25, 2011

29 July 2011, Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter

By: Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Alejandro Brice, Ph.D., CCC-SLP One of the most frequent questions speech-language pathologists (SLPs) ask when working with bilingual children is, “Which language should I use in intervention?” There is not a definitive answer but both ASHA…...

July 25, 2011

29 July 2011, Article, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Newsletter

By: Ruth Stoeckel, Ph.D., CCC-SLP An important aspect of providing competent intervention is determining if a child is making adequate progress. We want to know whether a child’s speech-language skills are changing, to have an idea of the rate of change over…...

July 25, 2011

29 July 2011, News, Newsletter, Play

Special Thanks to our blogger, friend, Loren Shlaes for the heads up on this article. [Source: The New York Times] When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox.…...

Guest Blog: By Hand

July 21, 2011

22 July 2011, Article, Fine Motor Skills, Hand Eye Coordination, Handwriting, Newsletter, OT

By: Loren Shlaes, OTR/L Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique “Man, through the use of his hands, as they are energized by his mind and will, can influence the state of his own health.” {Mary Reilly, 1962} In order to do and…...

July 21, 2011

22 July 2011, Article, OT, Sensory Integration

By: Anne Cronin, Davidson Institute for Talent Development 2003 This article by Anne Cronin offers an explanation of sensory integration, SI dysfunctions, and how it might affect gifted and talented individuals. The author also discusses implications in terms of development. A sensory…...

July 20, 2011

22 July 2011, Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ScienceDaily] It’s not just the words, but the sounds of words that have meaning for us. This is true for children and adults, who can associate the strictly auditory parts of language — vowels produced in the front or the back…...

July 19, 2011

22 July 2011, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Here is a great list of 50 fine motor skills activities for older children written by ‘Mr. Jeremy’ of the New Hope International School in Tokyo. Jeremy has a nice blog that we will continue to monitor. [Source: Make Learning Fun] Fine…...

July 19, 2011

22 July 2011, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have defined, for the first time, three different processing stages that a human brain needs to identify sounds such as speech – and discovered that they are the same as ones…...

July 18, 2011

29 July 2011, Article, Newsletter, OT, Sensory Integration, SPD, Tip or Resource

by Lindsey Biel Summertime can be both wonderful and stressful for kids with sensory issues and their families. Why do some kids seem to regress over the summer while others zoom ahead? Changes in routine, unfamiliar activities, food, faces, places, and sounds…...