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February 22, 2019
Issue 8, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday!
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
- Bimanual Daily Activities and Children's Preferences
- Barbie To Roll Out Dolls With Disabilities
- Movement Impairments in Autism Could be Reversible
- Children Who Eat Lunch Score 18 Percent Higher in Reading Tests
- Excess Screen Time Linked to Myopia Epidemic in Kids
- States Skirting Obligation To Cover ABA Therapy
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Peds Hospital Psychology Dept. Director - Washington, DC
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric Outpatient SLP - Roswell, NM
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric PT - Houston, TX
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Pinterest Pinboard of the Week: Therapy Ideas and Activities for St. Patrick's Day
- Book of the Week: Green Shamrocks
- Speech Freebie of the Week: St. Patrick's Day: Capture the Gold Game
Articles and Special Features
- OT Corner: Stencils for Prewriting Strokes
- SLP Corner: 10 Questions About Dog Basketball Your Students Will Love
- PT Corner: Torticollis: Addressing the Full Body to Treat the Neck
- School Psych Corner: Why Teenagers Cut, and How to Help
- Pediatric Therapy Corner: A Better Way to Say Sorry
- Career Corner: Is Your Best Face Forward on Facebook?
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Bimanual Daily Activities and Children's Preferences
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
The study included 20 children (8-14 years old) with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy. Hand use was investigated with videotaping of bimanual daily activities. Each child identified bimanual activities of their interest and no interest. Videos were then coded based on the affected extremity's forms and effectiveness of use, caregiver provision and types of assistance, and child's satisfaction.
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Barbie To Roll Out Dolls With Disabilities
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Barbie dolls are available with various skin tones, body types, eye colors and hair styles. Now, for the first time, the toy store staple will feature dolls with disabilities.
Toymaker Mattel said it will introduce a Barbie doll that uses a wheelchair and another with a prosthetic leg.
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Movement Impairments in Autism Could be Reversible
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[Source: Science Daily]
Researchers from Cardiff University have established a link between a genetic mutation and developmental movement impairments in autism.
The study, which found that the mutation of the CYFIP1 gene leads to changes in the development of brain cells, leading to the motor issues, also suggests that motor learning difficulties occur at a young age and can be reversed through behavioral training.
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Children Who Eat Lunch Score 18 Percent Higher in Reading Tests
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[Source: Science Daily]
The powerful connection between nutrition and education has been revealed by new research from ESMT Berlin. Primary school children who attended a public free lunch program over an extended period were shown to have significantly better learning outcomes.
Professors Rajshri Jayaraman from ESMT Berlin and Tanika Chakraborty from the Indian Institute of Technology studied the effects of India's midday meal scheme, the world's largest free school lunch program, feeding over 120 million children every day.
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Excess Screen Time Linked to Myopia Epidemic in Kids
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Ask anyone about the benefits of technology and it probably won't take them long to rhyme off a list of examples: it helps broaden your knowledge, connect with friends, both new and old, and allows you to see things you've never seen before.
But what about the drawbacks? Here's a major one: increased screen time is hard on your eyes.
In fact, more and more young people are wearing glasses to correct their nearsightedness. This trend has prompted optical health experts to determine if the use of electronic devices such as computers, tablets and smart phones is leading to a deterioration in sight that is reaching epidemic proportions.
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States Skirting Obligation To Cover ABA Therapy
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Despite a federal mandate nearly five years ago, several state Medicaid programs are still failing to cover treatment like applied behavior analysis for children with autism, advocates say.
In 2014, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services issued a bulletin telling states to pay for "medically necessary diagnostic and treatment services" for kids with autism, but stopped short of directly requiring ABA therapy.
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We are seeking a Pediatric Hospital Psychology Department Director for a children's specialty hospital in Washington, DC, that provides services to children from infancy through age 21 in inpatient and outpatient settings. This family-centered medical facility provides a variety of therapy services to meet the child's needs.
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Finding a job where you are appreciated can be as difficult as searching for aliens. You do not have to look out of this world to find what you are looking for, it is in Roswell, New Mexico. Roswell is the fifth largest city in New Mexico situated at the confluence of three rivers, the Spring, the Hundo, and Pecos. Your expertise, skills, knowledge and education and needed. Are you a Speech-Language Pathologist wanting to make a difference? Are you wanting to know you are appreciated by your team and families? If you are a Speech-Language Pathologist, this could be the place for you.
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Looking for a positive, supportive and flexible work environment? Are you a Physical Therapist looking for a part-time or full-time position in pediatrics?
* Your new position as a Physical Therapist will afford you the opportunity to have a flexible work schedule
* Provider prides themselves on comprehensive training and continuing education
* A minimum of 2 years of pediatric experience is preferred
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Are you excited for St. Patrick's Day? Its such a fun holiday to celebrate in the therapy room! Come on by our Pinterest St. Patrick's Day board (now in year two!) and check out the over 550 Activities, Resources and Treats you can make for the kiddos! Follow the board too, as it will grow quite a bit over the next couple of weeks.
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[Source: Pre-Kpages.com]
Green Shamrocks
by Eve Bunting is the story of a rabbit who plants shamrock seeds in hopes of having enough to create a necklace to wear to the St. Patrick's Day parade.
He plants them, waters them and then waits. One day, he discovers his pot of shamrocks has disappeared and he sets off to search for it.
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[Source: Speech 2 U]
I wrote about my valentine day blow dart game on my blog last month. My clients had such a good time with this activity, that I made up a FREEBIE version for St. Patrick's Day that I am really excited to share with you. You will need straws, some Q-tips and the leprechaun targets. Students take turns
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OT Corner:
Stencils for Prewriting Strokes
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by Anne Zachry OTR/L
Do you have a student or child working on prewriting strokes? I recently started seeing a student for therapy who was already using these stencils, and they are so clever, I had to share them with you!
Basically, all you need are several file folders (colored file folders are nice), a black marker, a laminating machine, and sticky back Velcro.
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SLP Corner:
10 Questions About Dog Basketball Your Students Will Love
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by Eric X. Raj, M.S. CCC-SLP
reprinted with permission of the author as it appeared on the Speech Therapy Ideas blog on Pocket SLP.com
It isn't every day that you get to see a DOG playing BASKETBALL! Wow, I sure was impressed when I came across this 1 minute video on YouTube so I felt th
e need to share it with with my 3rd grade students. I believe that incorporating audio-visual media into the speech therapy session really helps children who have language difficulties. If I were to
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PT Corner:
Torticollis: Addressing the Full Body to Treat the Neck
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By: Dr. Joni Redlich, DPT, PCS
The child in utero is curled up tight to fit in such a tight space. If a baby's neck is tilted, it is visually obvious to the parent and pediatrician. If they have asymmetry elsewhere the observations may be more subtle. It may be harder to put one arm in the onesie, the child may prefer to play with toys on one side, or the child may crawl with one leg dragging behind.
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School Psych Corner:
Why Teenagers Cut, and How to Help
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[Source: The New York Times Motherlode blog]
I noticed Sarah's arms as soon as I met her. It is hard not to, as 15 years of self-injury have rendered them more scar than skin. Sarah isn't my student, but I've taught plenty of kids like her, and she offered to talk to me about why she has cut herself for a decade and a half, and how the adults in her life could have helped her manage the pain that prompted her to self-injure.
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Pediatric Therapy Corner:
A Better Way to Say Sorry
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[Source: Cuppacocoa.com]
"Say sorry to your brother."
"But he's the one who-"
"Say it!" you insist, an edge of warning in your voice.
He huffs, rolls his eyes to the side and says flatly, "Sorry."
"Say it like you mean it," you demand.
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Career Corner:
Is Your Best Face Forward on Facebook?
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[Source: Career Builder]
Before posting pictures of your late-night revelry or complaints about your job on social media, think again - 70 percent of employers use social media to screen candidates before hiring, up significantly from 60 percent last year and 11 percent in 2006.
The national survey was conducted online on behalf of CareerBuilder by Harris Poll
between February 16 and March 9, 2017. It included a representative sample of more than 2,300 hiring managers and human resource professionals across industries and company sizes in the private sector.
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