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November 23, 2016
Issue 47, Volume 9
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Holidays!
Happy Thanksgiving to All. Please enjoy this abbreviated holiday edition of our newsletter. Have a safe and happy holiday.
News Items:
- Researchers: App Screens For Autism With 94 Percent Accuracy
- Why Are Young Kids So Bad at Hide & Seek? Researchers Have a New Theory
- A Trail Of Their Own
- Autistic Toddlers May Miss Significance of Eye Contact
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- 5 Ways to Use Jingle Bells
- Best Rhyming Books for Preschoolers
- Speechie Freebie - Articulation in Conversation
Articles and Special Features
- SpEd Corner: Family Fights For Down Syndrome Inclusion
- SLP Corner: Supporting One Another: The Power of Encouragement
- School Psych Corner: Judgement Call - Maturity, Emotions and the Teenage Brain
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Researchers: App Screens For Autism With 94 Percent Accuracy
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
A smartphone app could dramatically speed up the process of screening children for autism, potentially offering feedback in less than a minute.
Using eye-tracking technology, researchers say that they can determine with nearly 94 percent accuracy if a child as young as 2 is displaying signs of autism.
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Why Are Young Kids So Bad at Hide & Seek? Researchers Have a New Theory
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Young children across the globe enjoy playing games of hide and seek. There's something highly exciting for children about escaping someone else's glance and making oneself "invisible."
However, developmental psychologists and parents alike continue to witness that before school age, children are remarkably bad at hiding. Curiously, they often cover only their face or eyes with their hands, leaving the rest of their bodies visibly exposed.
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A Trail Of Their Own
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Spin a wheel and watch a rainbow of colors whirl in front of you. Try another and hear the sound of rain.
Run your fingers over a grid of oversize marbles. Rock back and forth inside a spinning wheel. Beat your hands on multicolored drums.
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Autistic Toddlers May Miss Significance of Eye Contact
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[Source: Psych Central]
Less eye contact is a signal symptom of autism; early screening protocols and diagnostic instruments rely heavily on it. But why kids with autism look less at other people's eyes has not been known.
New research from Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Emory University School of Medicine finds that young children with autism do not avoid eye contact on purpose. Instead, they miss the significance of social information in others' eyes.
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5 Ways to Use Jingle Bells
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[Source: Brick by Brick]
Do you like jingle bells? One of the benefits of working with preschoolers is that we get to play with jingle bells all year long, not just in December! Here are a few ideas to use jingle bells in the classroom.
1. Play them.
Of course, string the jingle bells on chenille stems and make homemade instruments. My kids love to make these. They love to use them as much as purchased instruments.
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Best Rhyming Books For Pre-Schoolers
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[Source; Pre-K Pages.com]
Rhyming is a great way to build foundational literacy skills. As preschoolers hear and say rhymes, they are beginning to hear sounds within words and identify when those sounds are the same. (This builds phonological awareness.) Preschoolers can develop their oral skills as they say rhymes. Rhyming books help children begin to predict what is coming or predict what word will end the sentence. These predictive skills are also important pre-reading skills. Plus rhymes are fun!
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Speechie Freebie - Articulation in Conversation
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[Source: Speechie Freebies]
Hello Speechie Freebie fans! I'm Tracy over at GoldCountrySLP. I've recently updated my Articulation in Conversation forms. Head over to my blog to read about what I have changed.
I have an explanation about how to use my quick and easy method for calculating articulation proficiency at the conversational level. This is what you need to use for progress monitoring! There will also be a link to go and pick up these handy forms. If you don't already have these, you will want to pick them up!
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SpEd Corner:
Family Fights For Down Syndrome Inclusion
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[Disability Scoop]
On the surface, the Pichardo family is fighting for an extra 60 minutes.
But for their youngest daughter Miranda, it's less about an hour and more about how she'll be taught and what her horizons will be.
In the context of recent reports about how the Texas Education Agency has sought to keep students out of special education across the state, Miranda's parents believe Tomball ISD outside Houston is hampering her learning and, ultimately, her future by scheduling the majority of her day in her school's special education classroom.
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SLP Corner:
Supporting One Another: The Power of Encouragement
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[Source: Doyle Speech Works]
This post has been on my mind since July. I have hemmed and hawed about writing it, and then thought, "It's time." I've been contemplating what support looks like in our profession. As speech-language pathologists we are 100% behind our students. We go the extra mile, we devote our
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School Psych Corner:
Maturity, Emotions and the Teenage Brain
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[Source: School Psychologist Files]
By Guest Blogger: Amy Williams
Working day in and day out with a primarily teenage crowd can be a bit of a daunting task. Throughout the school system there are countless positions, situations, and jobs, which call for an understanding between an adult (usually an authority figure) and a teenage pupil.
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