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February 15, 2019
Issue 7, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
- How the Brain Responds to Texture
- Cerebral Palsy At Center Of Netflix Comedy
- Study Finds Younger Kids Missing Out on ADHD Treatment and Support
- Congress Considers Renewal Of Autism Act
- Learning a Second Alphabet for a First Language
- Study Shows Benefits of Delayed Cord Clamping in Healthy Babies
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! School-Based SLP -Monroe, MI
- Hot, New Job! - School-Based OT - Arlington Heights, IL
- Hot, New Job! Early Intervention PT - Tarrytown, NY
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Fine Motor and Coordination OT Activity Video - Stacking Foam Beads
- The Kid's Health Website from Nemours
- Introduction to Friedreich's Ataxia and FARA
- Therapy Idea of the Week: Painting with Wheels
Articles and Special Features
- OT/PT Corner 10 Most Popular Freebies from Your Therapy Source
- OT Corner: Potty Training and the Sensory Defensive Pre-Schooler
- Pediatric Therapy Corner: Book Excerpt: "Early Intervention Games"
- SLP Corner: Fast Paced Artic Therapy Through an RTI Model
- Early Childhood Corner: Bringing Brain Science to Early Childhood
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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How the Brain Responds to Texture
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Our hands and fingertips are amazingly sensitive to texture. We can easily distinguish coarse sandpaper from smooth glass, but we also pick up more subtle differences across a wide range of textures, like the slick sheen of silk or the soft give of cotton.
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Cerebral Palsy At Center Of Netflix Comedy
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Netflix is picking up a comedy series about a man with cerebral palsy that has the backing of a "Big Bang Theory" star.
The streaming service said this week that it ordered eight episodes of the new series "Special." The semi-autobiographical show stars Ryan O'Connell who is gay and has cerebral palsy.
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Younger Kids Missing Out on ADHD Treatment and Support
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Many children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are missing out on assessment and treatment according to new research by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Contrary to popular perceptions, the study of early to mid-primary school aged children across Melbourne found only a small number of kids with ADHD were prescribed
medication.
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Congress Considers Renewal Of Autism Act
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Lawmakers are looking to secure over $1 billion in the coming years for federal efforts to address the needs of people with autism, including additional support for adults on the spectrum.
A bill introduced late last week in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives would reauthorize the nation's primary autism legislation known as the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support, or Autism CARES, Act.
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Learning a Second Alphabet for a First Language
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[Source: Science Daily]
A part of the brain that maps letters to sounds can acquire a second, visually distinct alphabet for the same language, according to a study of English speakers. The research challenges theoretical constraints on the range of visual forms available to represent written language.
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Study Shows Benefits of Delayed Cord Clamping in Healthy Babies
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
A five-minute delay in the clamping of healthy infants' umbilical cords results in increased iron stores and brain myelin in areas important for early-life functional development, a new University of Rhode Island nursing study has found.
"When we wait five minutes to clamp the cords of healthy babies, there is a return of the infant's own blood from the placenta, and one of the results is a return of up to 50 percent of the baby's iron-rich blood cells," said URI Professor of Nursing Debra A. Erickson-Owens, a certified nurse-midwife, who conducted the study with Judith S. Mercer, also a midwife and URI nursing professor emeritus. "So when the
brain needs red blood cells (and iron) to make myelin, the robustness of the iron stores make a big difference," Erickson-Owens said.
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Are you looking for a school opportunity near Detroit? PediaStaff needs a great Speech-Language Pathologist to work with a district in the Monroe area. You will work with elementary-aged students.
* Great location, about 45 minutes south of Detroit
* This opportunity is three days per week until April and then full time through the end of the school year
* SLP will experience a quick interview process!
* We offer excellent pay rates based on your experience and the location
* There is a possibility for the Speech-Language Pathologist to do some summer work and to extend for next school year
* School hours are 8:30 to 3:30
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Are you looking for a position to finish out the school year? We are in need of an Occupational Therapist to work in the Arlington Heights area at an elementary school starting in May. The Occupational Therapist will be working with kiddos from early childhood - 5th grade.
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Seeking a Speech-Language Pathologist for Early Intervention, Birth to 5. You'll conduct evaluations, assessment, and treatment of children in Westchester and/or Rockland Counties based on your preference. This opportunity is best suited to the self-starting, independent persWe are searching for a Physical Therapist to conduct evaluations and treatment of children Birth to 5 years old in Westchester County, NY. This opportunity is best suited for a self-motivated, independent therapist. If you enjoy charting your own destiny and impacting children and families in a positive way this may be the perfect job for you.
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OT Activity Video - Stacking Foam Beads
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Thanks again to our friends at Your Therapy Source for this week's Therapist Activity of the Week Video
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The "Kids Health" Website for Kids from Nemours
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Have you seen the Kid's Health Website? Nemours is one of the largest nonprofit organizations devoted to children's health. This site is designed for kids with no "doctor speak" on a wide array of children's health issues. There are some great pages in here on many of the developmental issues that your kiddos are dealing with.
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Introduction to Friedreich's Ataxia and FARA
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An introduction to Friedreich's Ataxia and the Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) as told by interviews with patients, families, researchers, and FARA employees.
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Therapy Idea of the Week: Painting with Wheels
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By: Pamela Ullmann, ATR-BC, LCAT
Although it has been a while since I have ran a "Wheel Art" workshop, I did find it very gratifying to help children create works of art with their own wheels!
What is Wheel Art?
Wheel Art is a unique activity for individuals who are wheel chair dependent. Each "wheel artist" uses the wheels of their chair to paint onto a large canvas secured to the floor. The artists all contribute their own style, color and unique patterns that create an amazing community mural to be shared.
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OT/PT Corner
10 Most Popular Freebies from Your Therapy Source
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Have you seen our free stuff page? How about the more free stuff page? They are both completely overwhelming. Sooner or later I need to reorganize but since that sounds super boring, I decided to highlight some of the best. Here are 10 super popular freebies from Your Therapy Source.
This list is from the last two years to keep it current of recent "trends" of people's interest. Funny thing is a few of these have been the most popular for over 10 years now!
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OT Corner:
Potty Training and the Sensory Defensive Pre-Schooler
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[Source: SPD Blogger Network]
Reprinted with permission of the SPD Blogger Network
by "Reinventing Mommy"
This post isn't for the faint of heart. Two words - two little words - that can strike fear into the hearts of every special needs parent. It rocks our worlds, forces our children to confront challenges, and causes enough headaches that buying ibuprofen in bulk seems like a good plan.
I'm talking of course about potty training.
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PTC:
Book Excerpt: "Early Intervention Games" by Barbara Sher
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Thank You Barbara Sher for providing us an excerpt from her book "Early Intervention Games." Enjoy this PDF selection complete with illustrations:
Read Excerpt Through our Blog
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SLP Corner:
Fast Paced Articulation Therapy Through an RTI Model
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By: Tamara Truax and JoAnn Tuttle
For decades the traditional once-weekly 30 minute group therapy model has been the most common way of treating sound errors in a school-based setting. However, if you ask therapists working on articulation what they think of this model, many will agree that it may not be the most effective way to remediate sound errors. Often, students with different sound substitutions and distortions are grouped together, making it difficult to address the specific therapeutic needs of a child within the group setting.
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Early Childhood Corner:
Bringing Brain Science to Early Childhood
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[Source: The Atlantic.com via Reading Rockets]
A group of scholars at Harvard University is spearheading a campaign to make sure the early-childhood programs policymakers put in place to disrupt intergenerational poverty are backed by the latest science.
The idea sounds entirely reasonable, but it's all too rare in practice, says Jack P. Shonkoff, the director of the university's Center on the Developing Child and the chair of the
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. That's because program grants and policies are generally structured in ways that incentivize "positive" results. Agreements along the lines of, "We'll give you funding to test this specific policy intervention and if you can prove it worked in three years, we'll give you more," are standard. Shonkoff and his colleagues think that model needs a major update.
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