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January 4, 2019
Issue 1, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy New Year!
Please enjoy our abbreviated holiday newsletter
News Items:
- Study Backs Idea That Students Get More Sleep With Later School Start Times
- Boy Scouts Alter Approach For Kids With Special Needs
- Parents' Brain Activity 'Echoes' Their Infant's Brain Activity When They Play Together
- Brain Activity Shows Development of Visual Sensitivity in Autism
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job - Early Intervention OT - Morgan Hill, CA
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric SLP - Wichita Falls, TX
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Free Winter Snowflakes Printable and Great Ways to Use It!
- Visual Perception Activity: Find and Color the Winter Cats
- Pinterest Pinboard of the Week: Martin Luther King Themed Activities
Articles and Special Features
- SLP Corner: Using Wind-Up Toys In Speech (Beyond "MORE")
- Career Corner: Facts You Need To Know Before Accepting a Contract with Full Per Diem
- OT Corner - Organizing a Disorganized Child
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Study : Students Get More Sleep With Later School Start Times
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[Source: Psych Central]
A new study adds to the growing evidence that teens get more sleep when schools starts later.
The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, show that students at two Seattle high schools got significantly more sleep after start times were pushed to almost an hour later.
This boosted the total amount of sleep on school nights from a median of six hours and 50 minutes, under the earlier start time, to seven hours and 24 minutes under the later start time. That represents a median increase of 34 minutes of sleep each school night.
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Boy Scouts Alter Approach For Kids With Special Needs
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Students in special education in the Deer Lakes School District are getting a chance to learn life skills and become part of the Boy Scouts of America through a new program.
This is the first year the district has participated in the Trailblazers Outreach Program, which is offered at no cost to the district by the Boy Scouts. One classroom from each of the district's four schools is participating. Students will complete the program to become either a Cub Scout or a Boy Scout depending on their age and learning level.
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Parent Brain Activity 'Echoes' Infant Brain Activity When Playing Together
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[Source: Science Daily]
Research shows for the first time that when adults are engaged in joint play together with their infant, the parents' brains show bursts of high-frequency activity, which are linked to their baby's attention patterns and not their own.
When infants are playing with objects, their early attempts to pay attention to things are accompanied by bursts of high-frequency activity in their brain. But what happens when parents play together with them? New research, publishing December 13 in the open-
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Brain Activity Shows Development of Visual Sensitivity in Autism
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[Source: Science Daily]
Research investigating how the brain responds to visual patterns in people with autism has shown that sensory responses change between childhood and adulthood.
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Seeking a Pediatric Occupational Therapist for a full-time Early Intervention position in Santa Clara 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 times, and administrative times 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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Are you a Speech-Language Pathologist looking for a wonderful opportunity to work in a clinic setting in the Wichita Falls area? I have the place for you right here! This is a multi-disciplinary clinic where they take a team approach with therapy. There are 8 other Speech-Language Pathologists on staff to collaborate with. You will be working with kiddos between the ages of 0-21.
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Free Winter Snowflakes Printable and Great Ways to Use It!
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[Source: No Time for Flashcards]
For years I rarely used a single printable for preschool, but that was back when I had no kids of my own ( aka extra time), had a very high classroom budget, and didn't really understand how to use printables in a play based way. None of the printables I offer on my site for preschool are worksheets, I have a few for elementary, but even those usually have a very obvious play connection. This winter printable for preschool is a material for developing skills and play.
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Visual Perception Activity: Find and Color the Winter Cats
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Here is a freebie from the Winter Visual Perceptual Puzzles packet by Your Therapy Source!
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Are you looking for some fantastic activities to do for Martin Luther King Day? Look no further than our Pinterest board! There is some great stuff in here including word searches,
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SLP Corner:
Using Wind-Up Toys In Speech (Beyond "MORE")
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[Source: Activity Tailor]
Wind-up toys and speech therapy go together like peanut butter and jelly (or chocolate and wine, depending on your leanings). But often therapists who see students older than toddlers/preschoolers tend to pass these mechanical gems by because they assume that they're best suited for "more" and other basic communication requests.
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Career Corner:
Facts To Know Before Accepting a Contract w/ Full Per Diem
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[Source: Top Echelon Contracting]
By Debbie Fledderjohann, President of Top Echelon Contracting
Imagine this: You receive an offer for a school-based contract assignment that is too good to pass up. Not only is the pay rate higher than the other offers you have received, but you would also get full per diem even though you are intending to permanently relocate your family to your new work location. Sounds like a no-brainer, right? Well, just remember, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.
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OT Corner -
Organizing a Disorganized Child
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Editor's Note: Abby Brayton of Notes from a Pediatric Occupational Therapist did a series of posts back in March that I really wanted to share with you. These are excellent ideas for our kiddos with executive function deficits who have a difficult time getting organized.
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