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November 16, 2018
Issue 45, Volume 11
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Can you believe next week is Thanksgiving already? Where did the year go??
Please enjoy this week's newsletter!
News Items:
- Autism and Zinc - What's the Link?
- Developing Instruments to Detect Language Problems Earlier
- Too Much Screen Time Linked to Anxiety & Depression in Young Children and Teens
- With Insurance Change, Access To ABA Therapy Expected To Grow
- Children with Autism Thrive in Mainstream Pre-Schools
- Autism Behaviors Show Unique Brain Network Fingerprints in Infants
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Early Intervention SLP - Detroit, MI
- Hot, New Job! School-Based Occupational Therapist - Tulsa, OK
- Hot, New Job! School-Based SLP - Vancouver, WA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Thanksgiving Motor Planning Ideas
- November Read Alouds for Speech Therapy
- Inspired Treehouse Recommended Sensory and Motor Skills Gifts
- Gobble Up These 12 Turkey Crafts for Kids
Articles and Special Features
- PT Corner: Learning to Walk with a Push Toy
- OT Corner: School-Related Fine Motor Skills - Understanding the Components
- Peds Therapy Corner: Four Ways Children Say their Well-Being Can be Improved
- School Psych Corner: Principals Crack Down on Harmful Student Behaviors
- SLP Corner: More Expressive Language Strategies
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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Autism and Zinc - What's the Link?
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[Source: Medical News Today]
Earlier research indicated an association between zinc and autism. However, until now, understanding the connection has been challenging.
A new study, published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, suggests that a zinc deficiency in early childhood may contribute to autism.
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Developing Instruments to Detect Language Problems Earlier
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[Source: Science Daily]
Children with undiagnosed language problems are more likely to have difficulty in school, and ultimately graduate and find employment at lower rates than their counterparts.
Such children may have trouble early in development in forming connections between words, objects and events in the world and, later, may have difficulty putting thoughts into words or understanding what others are trying to communicate.
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Too Much Screen Time Linked to Anxiety & Depression in Young Children & Teens
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[Source: Psych Central]
New research finds that more hours of screen time are associated with lower
well-being in those aged 2 to 17, with the association larger for adolescents than for younger children.
San Diego State University psychologist Dr. Jean Twenge and University of Georgia psychology professor Dr. W. Keith Campbell discovered that after only one hour of screen time daily, children and teens may begin to have less curiosity, lower self-control, less emotional stability and a greater inability to finish tasks.
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With Insurance Change, Access To ABA Therapy Expected To Grow
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
A change to medical billing codes for the most common behavior therapy for autism will mean better insurance coverage for families and less hassle for providers, advocates say.
Current Procedural Terminology, or CPT, codes are used by medical providers to bill insurance companies for services. The codes are maintained by the American Medical Association, with labels of temporary (more experimental, but still effective treatments) or permanent (proven effective under more rigorous standards).
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Children with Autism Thrive in Mainstream Pre-Schools
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[Source: Science Daily]
In a world first, breakthrough research has shown that toddlers with autism are just as capable of learning important life skills through early-intervention delivered in mainstream pre-schools as in specialized settings.
Over a period of three years, 44 children aged between 15 and 32 months were randomly assigned to classrooms that included only children with autism or to classrooms with typically developing peers.
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Autism Behaviors Show Unique Brain Network Fingerprints in Infants
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
A new study has identified unique functional brain networks associated with characteristic behaviors of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 12- and 24-month old children at risk for developing ASD. The study is published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
The findings help pinpoint brain regions involved in particular aspects of ASD and provide clues as to how the characteristic behaviors-known as restricted and repetitive behaviors-develop in the brain from an early age.
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Are you interested in a short-term contract near Detroit? We have the perfect position north of Detroit, near Farmington Hills, for a Speech-Language Pathologist to work in EI through a school district. You will work with the birth to three population in homes and daycares.
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PediaStaff is partnering with one of our long-time associates to locate motivated Occupational Therapists to work in the Tulsa, OK Public Schools! That's right...YOU can work in the public schools as a contract employee...where you enjoy the school hours with NO nights, weekends, or late evening appointments! If you are an Occupational Therapists looking to spend more time with your family...Summers Off...then don't hesitate and apply for this job opportunity today and we will set up a confidential interview with our client promptly!
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Looking for a position in the Vancouver area to finish out the 2018-2019 school year? We are searching for a WA licensed and ESA-certified Speech-Language Pathologist for a position starting the beginning of February and running through the middle of June. You would be joining a fun team of multi-modality therapist, and enjoying an excellent pay rate while doing so!
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Thanksgiving Motor Planning Ideas
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[Source: Pink Oatmeal]
With Thanksgiving approaching it's the perfect time to start thinking about Thanksgiving motor planning activities. I love Thanksgiving, I don't like turkey, but I love that there are four days in a row that everyone in my family is home! We have several different fine motor and gross motor activities to do this year that all include a Thanksgiving theme.
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November Read Alouds for Speech Therapy
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[Source: Crazy Speech World]
Another month, another huge selection of great books to read in therapy sessions. This month will be shorter due to days off for holidays, which makes it's hard to pick which ones to read! Here are some that I have in my classroom that I think make excellent choices for November...
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Inspired Treehouse Recommended Sensory and Motor Skills Gifts
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[Source: The Inspired Treehouse]
Have you started your holiday shopping yet? I logged into my Google account yesterday and was immediately confronted with my daughters' wish lists, color-coded with fancy fonts as if they will get exactly what they want as long as it all looks good on paper! So I decided to jump in on their game and create the 2018 Holiday Gift Guide for The Inspired Treehouse.
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Gobble Up These 12 Turkey Crafts for Kids
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[Source: Hands On As We Grow]
Get ready for Thanksgiving with super fun turkey crafts for kids! Which cute gobbler will you make first?
I'm not sure where this entire fall went, but it's already November! And that means Christmas is way too close already!
Since we haven't been doing a lot of crafting lately I thought I'd share some turkeys I found on It's Playtime last week.
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PT Corner: Learning to Walk with a Push Toy
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[Source: Starfish Therapies]
Using a push toy is one way that little ones begin to practice walking. It gives them the support needed while they begin to figure out how to pick up their legs and take steps. As they are using a push toy, here are some things for you to think about:
- When they are first starting you might want to use one that you can put a little bit of weight in because they will be leaning on it a lot and you don't want it to get away from them. Another solution is you can hold it for them so it is stable and slowly help them advance it.
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OT Corner:
School-Related Fine Motor Skills - Understanding the Components
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
When you search the internet, scour social media and review your textbooks, there are thousands of fine motor activities available to improve children's fine motor skills. It can become completely overwhelming just to decide what activity to choose to help a specific child.
It is important to understand the components of school-related fine motor skills. Just because there is a multitude of fine motor activities available for improving children's fine motor skills in general, it doesn't mean one size fits all. Certain fine motor activities are more suited to
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Peds Therapy Corner:
Four Ways Children Say their Well-Being Can be Improved
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Good emotional health as a child lays the foundation for good life satisfaction in adulthood. However, in the UK children and young people's happiness with their life is now at its lowest since 2010.
Our research team, HAPPEN (Health and Attainment of Pupils in a Primary Education Network) has been investigating how we can improve child health and well-being. But instead of looking solely at data and statistics, and asking adult experts what they think is
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School Psych Corner:
Principals Crack Down on Harmful Student Behaviors
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[Source: Ed Week]
When Brad Seamer became principal of the joint middle and high school in a small South Dakota town in 2008, his predecessor warned him about the hazing. It was best to just look the other way, Seamer remembers being told.
In Salem, a rural community on the east side of the state, there had been a long-standing tradition that many of the current students' parents had experienced: Around homecoming every year, seniors would take freshmen out into surrounding cornfields for an "initiation ceremony."
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SLP Corner:
More Expressive Language Strategies
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[Source: Teach Me to Talk]
Join pediatric speech-language pathologist Laura Mize, M.S., CCC-SLP as she discusses effective techniques to treat expressive language delays in toddlers. This is a continuation from show #350 when we talked about the imitation hierarchy I use to address language delays in toddlers. Now we're going to "sandwich" that information with what to try when a child is not ready for that protocol AND how to move on to phrases. Listen for some fantastic strategies!!
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