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March 6, 2020
Issue 9, Volume 13
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday!
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- A Third Of Pediatricians Still Don't Do Developmental Screenings
- Study: 4 Year Old Children Pay it Forward
- Maternal Obesity linked to ADHD and Behavioral Problems in Children
- Robot Toys Could Help Detect Early Signs of Autism in Infants
- Visual Spacial Processing Predicts Math and Reading Skills
- Learning Difficulties Due to Poor connectivity, Not Specific Brain Regions
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric Physical Therapist - Bentonville, AR
- Hot, New Job! 2019-2020 Special Education Teacher - Buckley, WA
- Hot, New Job! School-Based SLP - Fairbanks, AK
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Pinterest Pinboard of the Week: Therapy Ideas and Activities for St. Patrick's Day
- St. Patrick's Day Barrier Speech and Language Game
- St. Patrick's Day Feelings Freebie
Articles and Special Features
- Interview Like a Pro: Part 2B - Video Interview Tips
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Educator's Corner: Coronavirus and School Closures: What Are the Legal, Logistical Issues?
OT Corner: St. Patrick's Day Fine Motor Activities
- SLP Corner: Imagination Speech Therapy
- PT Corner: Crossing Midline
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A Third Of Pediatricians Still Don't Do Developmental Screenings
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Pediatricians are far more likely to screen children for developmental delays than they were in the early 2000s, but many still fail to follow guidelines recommending that all kids be checked.
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study released Monday shows that 63 percent of pediatricians reported utilizing standardized developmental screening tools in 2016. That's up dramatically from just 21 percent in 2002.
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Study: 4 Year Old Children Pay it Forward
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[Source: Medical X-Press
Have you ever received an unexpected kindness? A stranger in the car ahead of you paid your highway toll. Or a kind consumer picked up your tab at Starbucks. These actions can set off a chain reaction of kindness, as you pay that kindness forward to the next unsuspecting person in line.'
But when does this pay-it-forward mentality first emerge in humans? New research at the University of Virginia found that the phenomenon is first seen in four-year-olds.
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Maternal Obesity linked to ADHD & Behavioral Problems in Children
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Maternal obesity may increase a child's risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to an analysis by researchers from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health. The researchers found that mothers-but not fathers-who were overweight or obese before pregnancy were more likely to report that their children had been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or to have symptoms of hyperactivity, inattentiveness or impulsiveness at ages 7 to 8 years old. Their study appears in The Journal of Pediatrics.
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Robot Toys Could Help Detect Early Signs of Autism or ADHD in Infants
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Lauren Klein, a computer science Ph.D. candidate in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has long been interested in tackling healthcare problems. Her latest approach: robot toys.
"I strongly believe that human-robot interaction is a research topic that is promising for the future of healthcare," said Klein, a member of the USC Interaction Lab.
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Visual Spacial Processing Predicts Math and Reading SkillsTitle
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Visual spatial processing skills that involve fine motor skills and integrating motor information are very important to develop during the early childhood years. Previous research tells us that early fine motor skills are significantly associated with later achievement. Current research wanted to answer the question how early visual spatial processing skills and fine motor coordination skills predict later school performance.
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Learning Difficulties Due to Poor Connectivity, Not Specific Brain Regions
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[Source: Science Daily]
Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' within the brain is much more strongly related to children's difficulties.
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Walmart put this city on the map, but Bentonville, AR is much more. Bentonville is where modern progress meets rich history, where the arts meet innovation, and where companies meet communities. A town you can explore with all of your senses: from fresh air in the Ozarks, to fresh cuisine on your plate. PediaStaff is looking for a full-time Physical Therapist for a clinic that is the only provider in the state to offer a full continuum
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Looking to work in a smaller town that is still close to Tacoma and Seattle? We need a wonderful full-time Special Education Teacher for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year to work in the Buckley area! The Special Education Teacher would be working at a couple of school sites and be joining a great team environment. This is a 1.0 opportunity
- Great location, about 35 minutes from Tacoma and under an hour from Seattle
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Alaska is calling! A school system in Fairbanks, AK seeks two Speech-Language Pathologists with school or pediatric experience to finish this school year and most likely stay for the 2020-21 school year.
* New Grad SLP-CFs will be considered
* The caseload consists of schools in and around Fairbanks with a variety of diagnoses
* Therapist will be working in a few schools within a short drive time radius
* The therapist will work five days a week approximately seven hours per day and enjoy the benefits of working a school calendar year
* We will help you relocate to the area and you will need a car and help finding housing is
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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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St. Patrick's Day Barrier Speech and Language Game
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[Source: Gold Country SLP via Speechie Freebies]
Here is a portable, easy-prep activity you can use with most of your caseload. You can target all expressive language goals from describing to formulating sentences and questions.
Give each student one copy of the board containing a variety of pictures associated with St. Patrick's Day. Put a barrier (such as a file folder) between them so they can't see each
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St. Patrick's Day Feelings Freebie
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[Source: The Speech Room News]
Happy Friday! If you're buzzing over from the SpeechieFreebies site, welcome! I can't wait to see all the good things that come from this collaboration. We 10 SLP's have been so excited to share it with you! And we're especially thankful for Jessica for organizing a space for us to collaborate! Today I'm sharing a St. Patrick's day feelings freebie. These sweet shamrocks have 10 different faces expressing emotions!
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Interview Like a Pro: Part 2B:
Video Interview Tips
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Editor's Note: This post is a newly written "Part 2B" of a four-part interview guide for pediatric and school based speech-language pathologists, school psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and others that work with children with special needs.
Video interviews are becoming quite common in the hiring process - especially for contractors and out of town candidates. With rare exception, all the advice to be heeded regarding traditional face to face interviews (see part one of this post), applies to video
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Educator's Corner:
Coronavirus and School Closures: What Are the Legal, Logistical Issues?
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[Source: Education Week]
With President Donald Trump and top officials of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention putting schools on alert that they should be taking steps to prepare for the coronavirus, educators and public health authorities have plenty to think about.
In particular, the prospect of closing schools to help block the spread of the deadly virus raises numerous legal and practical issues. Who has the authority to close schools? What should the geographic contours of any closures be, and for how long? And how will
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OT Corner:
St. Patrick's Day Fine Motor Activities
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[Source: Pink Oatmeal]
It's just about March and that means St. Patrick's Day isn't too far away! Are you ready with fun fine motor activities? It's an easy theme to incorporate with rainbows, leprechauns and gold! At Pink Oatmeal, we've been doing some fun activities already! Check out all of our St. Patrick's Day fine motor activities!
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SLP Corner:
Imagination Speech Therapy
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[Source: Doyle Speech Works]
It's March already! Wow! I have been on winter break this past week enjoying balmy temperatures when suddenly the temperature dropped to 5 degree! It's hard to imagine it will ever be warm, but imagine I will.
As I dreamed of flowers and bird song, I started planning therapy for my return to work. I have so many St. Patrick's Day and spring activities, but I wanted something different. It's important for me to stay motivated in speech therapy as well as my students. Our students are keenly aware of when we are bored, too! When my children were little they would
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PT Corner:
Crossing Midlines
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[Source: Starfish Therapies]
Crossing midline is the ability for your hands, feet, and eyes to move across your body. Being able to cross midline is an important skill for children to develop as it is needed to complete everyday tasks such as, putting on shoes, reading, writing, and ball skills. Crossing midline includes visually tracking. Visually tracking includes your child's ability to move their eyes across midline without moving their head, which is an important skill for
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