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December 4, 2015
Issue 47, Volume 8
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday!
Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful holiday. Here we are in December already. Wow. Please enjoy our newsletter offering for the week!
News Items:
- Low Omega-3's Linked with Bipolar Disorder
- Study: Parental Absence Affects Brain Development in Children
- Brains with Autism Adapt Differently During Implicit Learning
- Babies Have Logical Reasoning Before Age One, Study Finds
- Processing Facial Emotions in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- First Language Wires Brain for Later Language-Learning
Hot Jobs
- Placement of the Week: School Nurse in Northern California!
- Hot Job! School Speech-Language Pathologist - Coastal, OR
- New Grads Please Apply! Pediatric OT - Arkadelphia, AR
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Pinterest Pin Board of the Week: Hanukkah!
- Book Reviews: Raising a Healthy Happy Eater
- Sesame Street Piece Features AAC! - The Amazing Song
- Holiday Book Review: The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish
- Game Recommendation: Yeti in My Spaghetti - A Fun Speech Therapy Game
Articles and Special Features
- Pediatric Therapy Corner Corner - Holiday Gift Giving Guide from OTs and PTs!
- OT Corner: Sad Days
- Special Ed Corner: A Fun Way to Help Special Needs Students Feel Valued By School Community
- SLP Corner: 5 Tips to Maximize Your Vocabulary Instruction
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Low Omega-3's Linked with Bipolar Disorder
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[Source: Psych Central]
A new study finds that people with bipolar disorder have lower levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids that cross the blood-brain barrier than people who do not.
Investigators from Pennsylvania State College of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health believe the finding could have future implications for dietary interventions for the disorder.
Experts say that fatty acids are a major area of interest in bipolar disorder and depression because of their biological importance in the brain.
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Study: Parental Absence Affects Brain Development in Children
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[Source: Medical News Today]
Researchers in China have found that children who have been left without direct parental care for extended periods of time show larger gray matter volumes in the brain, according to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Throughout the world, due to political upheaval, economic necessity or other reasons, parents sometimes are compelled to travel away from home for months or years at a time, leaving their children behind.
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Brains with Autism Adapt Differently During Implicit Learning
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[Source: Medical News Today]
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have discovered a crucial difference in the way learning occurs in the brains of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Published in NeuroImage, Sarah Schipul and Marcel Just examined how the brains of typical and ASD individuals gradually became adapted to visual patterns they were learning, without awareness of the pattern, or implicit learning.
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Babies Have Logical Reasoning Before Age One, Study Finds
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[Source: Medical News Today]
Human infants are capable of deductive problem solving as early as 10 months of age, a new study by psychologists at Emory University and Bucknell finds. The journal Developmental Science is publishing the research, showing that babies can make transitive inferences about a social hierarchy of dominance.
"We found that within the first year of life, children can engage in this type of logical reasoning, which was previously thought to be beyond their reach until the age of about four or five years," says Stella Lourenco, the Emory University psychologist who led the study.
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Processing Facial Emotions in Persons with ASD
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IIndividuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulty recognizing and interpreting how facial expressions convey various emotions - from joy to puzzlement, sadness to anger. This can make it difficult for an individual with ASD to successfully navigate social situations and empathize with others.
A study led by researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Columbia University used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural activity of different brain regions in participants with ASD, compared with typically developing (TD) participants, when viewing facial emotions.
The researchers found that while behavioral response to face-stimuli was comparable across groups, the corresponding neural activity between ASD and TD groups differed dramatically.
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First Language Wires Brain for Later Language-Learning
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[Source: Medical News Today]
Research also demonstrates brain's plasticity and ability to adapt to new language environments.
You may believe that you have forgotten the Chinese you spoke as a child, but your brain hasn't. Moreover, that "forgotten" first language may well influence what goes on in your brain when you speak English or French today.
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Congratulations to Elizabeth M., on her new position as a school nurse in one of PediaStaff's school-based clients in Northern California!
This is a terrific assignment in a lovely part of the state! Congrats, Elizabeth!
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We have an outstanding full-time contract available for a Speech-Language Pathologist to work with students in grades K-12.
* Located near Rockaway Beach on the beautiful Oregon coast
* Caseload is about 50 students
* You'll be part of a great team that embraces contract staff
* Starts ASAP through mid June 2015
Qualifications: Must hold a Master's Degree in either Speech Language Pathology or Communication Disorders, either an Oregon TSP or Oregon SLP license or eligible.
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Why live in a congested metropolitan setting when you can live in a smaller college town where you have space to roam, clean air, great neighbors, and enjoy the life in the suburbs! If you like an easy commute to work each day...but still be close to airports, sports, shopping, and other activities ...then this just might be YOUR next opportunity!
Our Client owns and operates multiple clinics across Arkansas utilizing Pediatric Therapy Services to help children form birth to 21 years of age. They are looking to ad a Pediatric Occupational Therapists to join their team of professionals in several locations! This opportunity is located just Southwest of the Little Rock, AR area...close to everything....college sports, water sports, outdoors, shopping, etc.
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Christmas-time is a wonderful time of year, but it is also a time for other celebrations as well.
Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah) starts this coming weekend! Here is a great collection of holiday activities to do with your kids in therapy! The board is loaded with word searches, crafts, coloring pages, poems, mazes and more.
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"Dr. Nimali Fernando and feeding therapist Melanie Potock help parents navigate the journey of child feeding, eating, drinking, nutrition, and related topics from birth to the school cafeteria. Their book is a proactive approach for the prevention and/or resolution of many health issues (e.g., reflux, constipation, obesity, etc.) and related concerns (e.g., long-term thumb and pacifier use, picky eating, poor self-esteem, anxiety, etc.). Fernando and Potock explain development to parents using real-life examples and provide parents with loads of practical advice for every childhood age and stage. The book is
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[Source: Scanlon Speech Therapy]
As a speech language pathologist (SLP) who "plays" throughout the day, I've amassed a cornucopia of toys and games to foster the development of various speech, language, and social communication skills.
One game I recently discovered thanks to Patch Products, a toy company and creator of the magical Okay to Wake Alarm Clock, is Yeti in My Spaghetti Board Game.
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Check out this terrific piece from Sesame Street called the "Amazing Song," a cute little Elmo and and Grover led ditty about how we are all amazing and wonderful in different ways.
And Congratulations to our friends at SymbolStix and TouchChat whose products appear prominently on the AAC device at about the 20 second mark in the video!
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[Source: Scanlon Speech Therapy]
As a speech language pathologist (SLP) who "plays" throughout the day, I've amassed a cornucopia of toys and games to foster the development of various speech, language, and social communication skills.
One game I recently discovered thanks to Patch Products, a toy company and creator of the magical Okay to Wake Alarm Clock, is Yeti in My Spaghetti Board Game.
Read More About this Book Through a Link on our Blog |
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Peds Therapy Corner:
Holiday Gift Giving Guide from OTs and PTs
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[Source: Pink Oatmeal]
Black Friday is upon us. That day of crazy shopping around for deals...or has that become Thanksgiving now? Having a newborn I'm opting out of the store rush this year. I'll admit I kind of like to go and people watch more than anything. I'm usually not one who has a mad list. I'm sure I'll be participating on online sales though this year. I can't help myself. One thing I always do try to do when it comes to gifts is make them practical and useful. I'm lucky to collaborate
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OT Corner:
Sad Days
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[Source: ABC Therapeutics]
"Today is my sad day," stated Lauren, in a matter of fact tone.
I work with many children who have superior language skills. Often, those language skills outpace motor expression and emotional coping ability. Sometimes doctors or psychologists call it a non-verbal learning problem or sometimes they will label it Asperger's Syndrome if the child has other behavioral quirks. Either way, I am accustomed to hearing kids say things to me that would take the average listener off guard.
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Special Ed Corner:
A Fun Way to Help Students Feel Valued
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[Source: Mind Shift]
Schools are filled with all kinds of diverse learners, including some students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) that give them access to extra learning resources. Support for students with special learning needs varies. Many learners with IEPs are integrated into the same classrooms as other kids. But sometimes, if a student needs more individualized attention, he or she will be part of separate classes for some or all of the school day. That set-up can sometimes make it hard for those children to feel part of the broader school community.
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SLP Corner:
5 Tips to Maximize Your Vocabulary Instruction
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[Source: The ASHA Leader Blog]
As a speech-language pathologist working to close the achievement gap in a charter school system, I'm always looking for the latest evidence-based practice recommendations for vocabulary instruction. Vocabulary skills contribute to word reading, writing, listening and reading comprehension skills, so I make vocabulary a priority in my day-to-day work with students. I recently read theNovember issue of ASHA's SIG 1 Perspectives on Language Learning and Education, and found some wonderful ideas for maximizing vocabulary instruction.
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