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May 19, 2017
Issue 15, Volume 10
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
- Special Education Receives Slight Increase in FY 2017 Funding Bill
- Psychological Benefits for Kids When Moms Keep Taking Folic Acid
- Repetition a Key Factor in Language Learning
- Language Shapes How the Brain Perceives Time
- Preschoolers' Story Comprehension Similar for Print and Digital Books
- Risk of Autism Linked to Maternal Grandmother Smoking in Pregnancy
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot Job: School Psychologist - PSY - Portland, OR
- Hot Job: School-Based Occupational Therapist - OT - Glenview, IL
- Hot Job: Part-Time School-Based SLP - McHenry, IL
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Therapist & Family Resource of the Week: Brain Injury Hub
- Free 15 Episode Autism Seminar Produced by Yale on iTunes
- FlipSnack - Free PDF to Flip Book Converter
- Practice Scissor Skills for Spring
Articles and Special Features
- OT Corner: Foundations for Visual Perception (Activity ideas)
- SLP Corner: Expressive Language: Getting it Right!
- PT Corner: Hand and Foot Play
- Early Education Corner: What the Science Says About How Preschool Benefits Children
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Special Education Receives Slight Increase in FY 2017
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[Source: Council for Exceptional Children]
Last week the U.S. Senate passed a $1.1 trillion funding bill, which adverted a government shutdown and will fund the government through September 2017. The U.S. Department of Education's overall budget is $71.6 billion, a cut of $60 million from fiscal year (FY) 2016. This bill was agreed upon by republicans and democrats after lengthy and contentious negotiations resulting in a bipartisan bill. The bipartisan bill does not include many of the domestic policy spending cuts recommended by President Trump and eliminates any policy riders in the education budget. In addition, there is no new federal choice program included, as proposed by President Trump.
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Psychological Benefits for Kids When Moms Keep Taking Folic Acid
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[Source: Science Daily]
Taking folic acid supplements throughout pregnancy may improve psychological development in children.
That is the finding of research by Professor Tony Cassidy and colleagues from Ulster University who will present their study to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society in Brighton.
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Repetition a Key Factor in Language Learning
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[Source: Science Daily]
Rapid learning of new words is crucial for language acquisition, and frequent exposure to spoken words enables vocabulary development.
In her doctoral dissertation, Lilli Kimppa studied neural response dynamics to new words over brief exposure. She measured the neural activation of Finnish-speaking volunteers with electroencephalography (EEG) during auditory tasks in which existing Finnish words, and non-words with Finnish and non-native phonology, were repeated.
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Language Shapes How the Brain Perceives Time
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[Source: Science Daily]
Professor Panos Athanasopoulos, a linguist from Lancaster University and Professor Emanuel Bylund, a linguist from Stellenbosch University and Stockholm University, have discovered that people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.
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Preschoolers' Story Comprehension Similar for Print & Digital Books
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[Source: Reading Rockets]
The content of a children's book-not its form as a print book or a digital book-predicts how well children understand a story, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The findings, presented on May 1 at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting in San Antonio, suggest that both digital stories and reading storybooks in person present opportunities for learning
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Autism Linked to Maternal Grandmother Smoking in Pregnancy
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[Source: Medical News Today]
Autism, characterized by repetitive behaviors and difficulty interacting socially, appears to be on the rise.
Much of this increase is thought to be due to better detection rates and greater awareness. However, many scientists believe that environmental or lifestyle factors might also play a role.
A recent study, carried out by researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, looked into three generations of data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a long-term data collection project carried out by the University that began in the early 1990s.
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PediaStaff has a wonderful opportunity for a School Psychologist!
* Great location in the Portland Metro Area (Vancouver, WA)
* Easy commute from Portland - or live in WA where there's no state income tax
* Vision to fully implement the Comprehensive Service Delivery Model
* Super team of School Psychs and you'll enjoy working here
* Excellent pay rates based on experience
* New graduates - earn a high income now with option to convert to a District employee later
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Speech-Language Pathologist Job Opportunity starting in July for the 2017-18 school year!
* School Based Contract Position
* Part time, 3 days per week. Days are flexible, staff special ed meetings are on Tuesday
* Hours are 8:30-3:30
* Must have PEL and IL license to practice
* No CFYs at this time, please
* School year is 180 days with several 2-3 week breaks throughout the year.
Qualifications: Must hold appropriate Degree in Communications Sciences Disorders, or Speech Language Pathology; and a current state license (or be eligible for same).
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Maternity leave position available for the fall in a school setting in the Glenview area!
* full time
* maternity leave
* K-5
* 3 schools
* August 17, 2017 - December 22, 2017
Qualifications: Must hold a Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Occupational Therapy and a current state license (or be eligible for same).
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Therapist & Family Resource of the Week: Brain Injury Hub
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Here is a great resource I was introduced to through Twitter. Unfortunately, I was not good enough to remember who tweeted it. My apologies!
The Children's Trust is a national charity working with children who have multiple disabilities and complex health needs. Based at in Tadworth, Surrey, it is the largest residential brain injury rehabilitation unit in the UK and also offers a nationwide community service for children and young people with ABI. The Brain Injury Hub was conceived as a way of sharing the expertise at the Trust with a wider audience.
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Free 15 Episode Autism Seminar Produced by Yale
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[Source: The Yale Seminar on Autism]
The Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders is the United States' first undergraduate course of its kind. The goal of this series is to make all of the lecture content and supporting materials available online for free for anyone who desires to learn about Autism Spectrum Disorders. For Yale
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FlipSnack - Free PDF to Flip Book Converter
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[Source: Flip Snack]
Here is a really cool tool for those of you who are creative and techy. Thanks to our Twitter friends at Heaman Communication Services for the lead on this resource! This would be a great way to make
individualized therapy booklets!
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Practice Scissor Skills for Spring
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Grab some scissors, print out this free 3 page packet in black and white and practice scissor skills during Spring time. This scissor skills packet includes a butterfly, ice cream cone and a snail. Children can practice cutting straight lines, curved lines and circles. Once the pieces are cut out, the child can assemble and glue the Spring picture. Can they match the picture on the page? This skill requires visual spatial skills, figure ground skills and more.
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OT Corner:
Foundations for Visual Perception (Activity ideas)
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By: Melanie Lambert OTR/L
A.M. Skeffington, an American optometrist known to some as "the father of behavioral optometry", believed that vision cannot be separated from the total individual nor from any of the sensory systems because it is integrated into all human performance. His model describes how visual processes mesh with auditory input, proprioception, kinesthesia and body sense. Visual perception is, therefore, not obtained from vision alone. It comes from combining visual skills with all other sensory modalities, including the vestibular and proprioceptive systems.
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SLP Corner: Expressive Language - Getting it Right
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[Source: Upbility]
Expressive language signifies the ability to use words, sentences, gestures and writing to convey notions and messages to other people. Expressive language skills include the ability to name objects in our surroundings, describe actions and events, formulate sentences, use grammar correctly, retell stories and respond to questions.
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PT Corner:
Hand and Foot Play
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[Source: Starfish Therapies]
Hand and foot play is an important part of a child's development. So is bringing the feet to their mouth (unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of that!). So what are some of the reasons it is so important?
- Hamstring stretches - They just spent 9 months cramped up in the 'fetal'
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Early Ed Corner:
What the Science Says About How Preschool Benefits Children
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[Source: MindShift]
Some of the nation's top researchers who've spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together in Washington with one goal in mind: to cut through the fog of studies and the endless debates over the benefits of pre-school.
And they came away with one clear, strong message: Kids who attend public preschool programs are better prepared for kindergarten than kids who don't.
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