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May 17, 2019
Issue 20, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- 'Good Enough' Parenting is Good Enough, Study Finds
- Education Department to Appeal Decision on Special Education Bias Rule
- Drugs Aimed At Autism's Core Features Show Promise
- More Screen Time Associated with Decreased Fine Motor Skills
- ABC Calls It Quits On 'Speechless'
- 'Lentils Will Help You Run Faster:' Communicating Food Benefits Gets Kids to Eat Healthier
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! 2019-2020 School Psychologist - Easton, MD
- Hot, New Job! Early Intervention SLP - Throughout Chicagoland
- Hot, New Job! 2019-2020 School-Based COTA - Eatonville, WA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- OT Activity of the Week: Simple Origami Tulips
- Speech & Language Activities for 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear'
- Therapy Activity of the Week: Rainy Day Gross Motor Fun!
- Fine Motor Activity of the Week: Fork Painting
- Free Poster for Better Hearing and Speech Month: Being an SLP Means...
Articles and Special Features
- OT Corner: Improving Handwriting in Kids
- SLP Corner: Strategies and Exercises for Word Finding
- Pediatric Therapy Corner: Pediatric Stroke Awareness
- School Psych Corner: Helping Children Coping with a Family Member with Young Onset Dementia
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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'Good Enough' Parenting is Good Enough, Study Finds
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[Source: Science Daily]
What really matters in caring for babies may be different than commonly thought, says Lehigh University researcher Susan S. Woodhouse, an expert on infant attachment. In new research, she finds that caregivers need only "get it right" 50 percent of the time when responding to babies' need for attachment to have a positive impact on a baby. Securely attached infants are more likely to have better outcomes in childhood and adulthood, and based on Woodhouse's potentially paradigm-shifting work, there is more than one way to get there, particularly for low socioeconomic-status families.
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Education Department to Appeal Decision on Special Education Bias
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[Source: Education Week]
The U.S. Department of Education will appeal a judge's ruling that could affect how school districts across the country spend millions of dollars in federal special education money.
The department has wanted to delay the implementation of a rule related to how states monitor their school districts' identification of minority students for special education, in addition to their discipline or
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Drugs Aimed At Autism's Core Features Show Promise
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
New research suggests that medications targeting a hormone may lead to improved socialization and behavior in those with autism.
Results from two studies on treatments related to the hormone vasopressin - one looking at adults on the spectrum and another looking at children - are showing promise.
"We might finally have an agent that will target these core features that are very hard to treat," said Antonio Hardan, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University and a senior author of the research looking at kids.
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More Screen Time Associated with Decreased Fine Motor Skills
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
As technology and screens take a stronger hold on our children's lives every day, it is important to analyze the relationship between screen time and fine motor skills in preschoolers. Teachers and therapists continue to report that when they observe young children, motor skill development is lacking. Some hypothesize that this is due to an increase in screen time instead of open-ended free play outside of the school day or prior to entering the school system.
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ABC Calls It Quits On 'Speechless'
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
A network comedy centering on the experiences of a teen with a developmental disability and his family is no more.
ABC said that it will not renew "Speechless." The series, which debuted in 2016, wrapped up its third season last month.
"Speechless" focused on JJ DiMeo, a nonverbal high school student with cerebral palsy, as well as his parents, brother and sister. JJ used a power wheelchair, a communication board and had an aide.
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'Lentils Will Help You Run Faster:' Communicating Food Benefits Gets Kids to Eat Healthier:
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[Source: Science Daily]
That's according to a study published today in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior by Washington State University and Florida State University scientists.
The researchers found affirming statements like 'eat your lentils if you want to grow bigger and run faster' were more effective at getting kids to make healthy food choices than presenting the food repeatedly without conversation.
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Are you looking to slow your pace and live in a small coastal town? We have a wonderful opportunity for a School Psychologist to work a full-time position on the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland's Eastern Shore for the 2019-2020 school year. You can live in the beautiful waterfront town and enjoy all it has to offer! We need you to come work in Easton, MD and are ready to interview now!
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Early Intervention Speech Therapy Services are in high demand throughout the greater Chicago region of Illinois. We have several cases available in Will County, Bolingbrook and the Aurora, IL areas.
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Are you looking for a great COTA position with a lot of autonomy? PediaStaff needs a great Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant to work full-time hours with a district in the Eatonville area! You will have a part-time OT helping you out, as well. You will work with elementary through high-school aged students, as this is a smaller district. Enjoy a small caseload! If this is a great fit, there's a good chance we can extend you for the 2020-2021 school year, too.
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OT Activity of the Week: Simple Origami Tulips
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[Source: Make and Takes.com]
by Amy Anderson
Every spring, I love seeing tulips pop up in my yard. It seems like I always forget about them - such a colorful surprise! We made a little ode-to-tulips art project with some super-simple origami paper tulips. With only a few folds, this is a great origami project for young kids and origami novices (like me!).
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Speech & Language Activities for 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear'
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By: Elizabeth Gretz, MS CCC-SLP
This book is great because of its repetitive phrases!
Articulation:
When reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear we work on syllableness. Syllableness focuses on producing the appropriate amount of syllables in each word or phrase. First I model the words for the children.
Word List: b
rown bear, red bird, yellow duck, blue horse, green frog, purple cat, white dog, black sheep, goldfish, teacher
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Can we go one month without finding something wonderful to share through No Time for Flashcards?
Maybe not!
Alison has recently posted 25 Gross Motor Rainy Day Activities that you have to check out.
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[Source: Brick by Brick]
As I said before, we love to paint. We do it almost every week. Lately we've been painting with things other than brushes; we've been using kitchen items to paint. Last week we painted with a salad spinner. This week we used forks.
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Free Poster for BHS Month: Being an SLP Means...
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Maureen at The Speech Bubble Blog, posted a really sweet poem i
the spirit of Better Hearing and Speech Month - about what being an SLP means to her.
We loved it, and asked her to make a poster of it, and she did!
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OT Corner:
Improving Handwriting in Kids
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Many people say that handwriting instruction is no longer a necessity because of the prevalence in the use of gadgets that effectively replace our need to write using traditional writing tools. Dr. Beverly Moskowitz, OTR/L, creator of the Size Matters Handwriting Program, shares with us her thoughts and suggestions on why handwriting instruction is still important and relevant today.
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SLP Corner:
Strategies and Exercises for Word Finding
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by Andrea Anderson, MS CCC-SLP
We've all had moments where the word we were thinking of was "on the tip of our tongue". Students with seizure disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury, and other neurological impairments often have difficulty with word finding.
Here are a few strategies and exercises parents and teachers can do with their students.
Naming Categories: Give three or four items belonging to the same category and then have the person with word finding difficulty try to identify the category. You can then reverse this naming game and give the category first, then have the anomic individual name three or four items belonging to that category.
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Pediatric Therapy Corner:
Pediatric Stroke Awareness
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[Source: Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association (CHASA)]
May is Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month! There is strength in numbers and you can join the movement to increase Pediatric Stroke Awareness. This page will give you tools to help you raise awareness.
A Few Facts About Stroke in Infants, Children, Young Adults and Before Birth
- Stroke can occur before birth, in infants, children and young adults.
- Risk of stroke is highest in the first year of life and peaks during the perinatal period (a few weeks before and after birth)
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School Psych Corner:
Helping Children Coping with a Family Member with Young Onset Dementia
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
A pioneering study led by researchers from the University of Sheffield is helping to give a voice to children and young adults who are living with a parent with dementia.
There are estimated to be at least 42,325 people in the UK under 65 living with a variant of young onset dementia.
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