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December 1, 2017
Issue 36, Volume 10
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
- Babies Display Intuition, Can Detect Value of Goals
- Gross Motor Skills, Postural Stability, and Autism
- Researchers First to Unlock Key Molecular Mystery of Premature Aging Syndromes
- Babies May Recognize Related Words
- Autism Wandering Bill Advances In Senate
- Airbnb Acquires Site Offering Accessible Accommodations
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job: School SLP - Washington, DC
- Hot, New Job: Pediatric Early Intervention SLP - Monterey, CA
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric Outpatient and EI Physical Therapist - Logansville, GA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Hanukkah Books for The Therapy Room
- Hanukkah Social Story
- December Gross Motor Planning
- PAL (Play Advances Language) Holiday Gift Guide
Articles and Special Features
- School Psych Corner: Creating Safety and Attachment for Students With Trauma
- SLP Corner: Lunch Dates in Speech
- Pediatric Therapy Corner: What Teachers Must Consider When Moving to Flexible Seating
- OT Corner: The Biggest Challenges in Finding OT Resources
- School Nurse Corner: The Role of School Nurses in Integrated Pest Management for Public Health
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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Babies Display Intuition, Can Detect Value of Goals
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[Source: Psych Central]
New research finds that babies as young as 10 months can tell how hard adults are willing to work toward a goal. Investigators from MIT and Harvard say this ability requires integrating information about both the costs of obtaining a goal and the benefit gained by the person seeking it.
The ability to assess the value of a goal suggests that babies display intuition about how people make decisions.
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Gross Motor Skills, Postural Stability, and Autism
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Research indicates that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently exhibit deficits in gross motor skills and postural stability. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders published research examining the relationship between gross motor skills, postural stability, and autism.
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FSU Scientists Unlock Key Molecular Mystery of Premature Aging Syndromes
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
New research from Florida State University is beginning to piece together the stubborn puzzle posed by a family of rare and debilitating premature aging disorders.
Most of these diseases, called progeroid syndromes, share physiological symptoms characterized by the appearance of accelerated aging, such as skin disorders, loss of hair, skeletal and dental
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Babies May Recognize Related Words
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[Source: Psych Central]
A new Duke University study finds that, by six to nine months, babies can already recognize that the meanings of some words, such as "car" and "stroller," are more alike than other words, such as "car" and "juice."
"Even though there aren't many overt signals of language knowledge in babies, language is definitely developing furiously under the surface," said Dr. Elika Bergelson, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University.
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Autism Wandering Bill Advances In Senate
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Federal legislation aimed at providing tracking devices and resources to those with autism and other developmental disabilities who are at risk of wandering is moving forward.
The U.S. Senate's Committee on the Judiciary voted this week to approve the bill known as Kevin and Avonte's Law. Now the measure will go before the full Senate for consideration.
The legislation calls for expanding an existing program designed to help people with Alzheimer's disease who tend to bolt to include children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
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Airbnb Acquires Site Offering Accessible Accommodations
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Airbnb has sometimes come under fire for lack of access for travelers with disabilities. The home-stay company says it wants to do better. So it's buying Accomable, a London company that arranges vacation stays in private homes that have verified accessibility features.
"We want to help create new policies and procedures for vetting Airbnb properties, to make sure an Airbnb customer with accessibility needs can trust its offerings the same way
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We have a fabulous school position in the Southeast Washington DC area for a Speech-Language Pathologist for around 30 hours per week. This position is for the remainder of the 2017-2018 school year.
* This school is part of a nationally run charter school program.
* Flexible hours between 8:00-3:30.
* Projected caseload of 25-30 elementary (K-5th) kiddos.
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Seeking a Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist part- or full-time in Monterey County. Your caseload will be within a commutable distance of your home. This is 100% in-home therapy for populations Birth-3 Early Intervention. Sessions, drive time, and administrative time are all considered a part of your workday. The position can be paid on a W2 or as an independent contractor.
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Come join a dynamic pediatric therapy company in Loganville, Georgia, a quaint town east of Atlanta. Full time opportunity for an Outpatient and Early Intervention Physical Therapist to work with children in clinic and natural settings.
* State of the art facility providing compassionate therapy services for children who have a variety of orthopedic, neurological and developmental needs, with a focus on functional outcomes.
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Hanukkah Books for The Therapy Room
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[Source: Pre-K Pages]
Hanukkah is coming! Whether or not your children's families celebrate Hanukkah, you may want to explore this holiday and celebration. Learning about the celebrations of other cultures is important for preschoolers. These books can help preschoolers learn more about Hanukkah.
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Hanukkah Social Story
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[Source: JTeach.org]
A social story is read to or with students to give them an idea of both the holiday and what to expect. Making events predictable helps students who are challenged in new situations.
This social story introduces basic concepts regarding Hanukkah.
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December Gross Motor Planning
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[Source: Pink Oatmeal]
December is one of my favorite months for gross motor planning. With the holidays upon us there are so many fun themed gross motor activities that you can try! Everything from The Gingerbread Man to Christmas themed games are perfect this time of the year! Check out these ideas for your December gross motor planning!
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PAL (Play Advances Language) Holiday Gift Guide
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[Source: Play on Words]
We're excited to announce our Top 10 PAL Picks for 2017! These toys, games and media products have displayed the fun factor with kids and families and/or gotten kudos from elementary school teachers or therapists, and displayed the intrinsic design to build language skills.
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School Psych Corner:
Creating Safety & Attachment for Students w/Trauma
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[Source: Edutopia]
Many children and adolescents walk into our schools and classrooms carrying toxic levels of stress. They're on edge, and their neuro-anatomy is in a state of dysregulation, which drives their behaviors and makes it difficult for them to learn.
I recently traveled to Mississippi and met a number of young students in a primary classroom who brought these points to life.
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SLP Corner:
Lunch Dates in Speech
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[Source: Activity Tailor]
Despite having parents that are nervous about their child pulled for speech during the school day ("I don't want them to be singled out."), I more often run into kiddos who don't want to stop. At the beginning of the year, they'll catch me in the hall to say, "sign me up again this year." Flattering to be sure, but I see students on a private basis so I need to get them (in and) out in a timely manner.
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Peds Tx Corner:
Considerations Before Moving to Flexible Seating
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[Source: Mind Shift]
Flexible seating in classrooms has become popular over the past few years as educators try to make school feel like a welcoming place with different kinds of spaces for different types of learning. Frustrated with static rows of clunky desks, some teachers have taken to rearranging their rooms, bringing in furniture from home, and generally trying to shake up the way classrooms feel by paying attention to lighting, color and clutter. Educators
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OT Corner:
The Biggest Challenges in Finding OT Resources
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[Source: Miss Jaime OT]
As therapists, there is a common thread of struggling with time and energy when it comes to finding online Occupational Therapy resources. Many therapists struggle with fitting in professional advancement between work schedules and home life.
Take into consideration all that needs to be done for a therapist to maintain licensure requirements, learn on the job, and other efforts for advancing clinical expertise. To take additional time out of family life or "off time" to seek out evidence-backed answers to clinical questions can be a real challenge!
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School Nurse Corner:
Our Role in Integrated Pest Management for Public Health
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[Source: Entomology Today]
By Meredith Swett Walker
School nurses do more than just apply bandages to scraped knees and administer asthma inhalers. They are also health educators, they help control communicable diseases, and they even do some pest management.
In the past, the dreaded head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) was likely the only pest a school nurse needed to worry about. But, with the rise of arthropod-borne diseases like
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