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March 20, 2020
Issue 11, Volume 13
It's All About the Choices!
A MESSAGE FROM ALL OF US AT PEDIASTAFF
For 14 years, we at PediaStaff have worked to connect educated and qualified professionals with our clients to ensure our pediatric special needs community receive the services they deserve.
We recognize that COVID-19 has us all in uncharted waters. We care deeply about all our clients and employees and how this is affecting each and every one of you. We are still here and we will still be here when our world rights itself and we move on from COVID-19.
It is our mission at this time to continue to support you, collect and analyze information from the pediatric community so that when the time comes we can move rapidly to share job opportunities with you, set up interviews and get back to what matters the most...changing lives one child at a time.
News Items:
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
NOW HIRING! These employers are ready to interview YOU!
- Pediatric Home Health SLP - Various Locations in Texas
- School Psychologist - Fairbanks, AK
- School Year 20/21 School SLP - Napa, CA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Companies Offering Free Educational Subscriptions Due to School Closings
- FREE Resource: Coronavirus Social Story
- Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Is Giving K-12 Schools His Videoconferencing Tools For Free
- Children's Books Win Awards For Disability Storylines
Articles and Special Features
- School Therapy Corner - Providing Services to Children with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- OT/PT Corner: 27 Indoor Activities For Kids Stuck at Home
- Worth Repeating: Articulation Therapy Carryover Activities
- Seasonal Activity of the Week: Easter Egg Hunt for Children with Autism
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Have a great weekend and Take Care!
Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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| Regularly Updated List of Coronavirus School Closings |
[Source: Education Week]
Currently, we are updating this page twice a day on weekdays and once daily on weekend days.
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing widespread school closures in the United States, with some states ordering all schools to shut down for as long as a month in an unprecedented disruption of K-12 schooling.
Use the map below to see where entire states are closed, states where some school districts are shut down, and states where there are no known closures. Keep scrolling for detailed information about district closures.
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Coronavirus Brings Added Worries For People With Disabilities
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[Disability Scoop]
The coronavirus pandemic has created unique concerns for caregivers and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Individuals with disabilities likely have the same risk factors as the general population - those who are older or have compromised immune systems are most vulnerable to the virus.
But anyone with intellectual disability, moderate to severe developmental delay, muscular dystrophy or brain disorders may also be more susceptible to severe illness from COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
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Lawmakers Introduce Bicameral Bill to Address School Closures
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[Source: Council for Exceptional Children]
Lawmakers have begun to discuss more focused relief for school districts and students affected by a wave of school closures. Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) introduced companion bills that would target relief to students, educators, and staff impacted by closures related to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Trump Seeks Emergency Coronavirus School Funding
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[Source: Education Week]
The supplemental $100 million for the U.S. Department of Education would be accessible to K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities. It would be earmarked for
Project SERV, a program that helps schools recover from traumatic events, and could be used to "help clean and disinfect affected schools, and assist in counseling and distance learning/online learning costs," according to the proposal.
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Full-Time and Part-Time positions available for a pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist with a thriving pediatric home health care company in various locations of TX: Lubbock, Athens, Amarillo, Tyler and Wichita Falls. If you're looking for a new position in one of these areas, or virtually any area of Texas, we're standing by. We are primarily looking for CCC'd therapists. Bilingual therapists (in Spanish) a plus as well as therapists with feeding experience!
You're probably wondering about your safety during the COVID-19 outbreak. Because our services are rendered one-on-one, we will remain open, and we are taking specific steps to help reduce the spread of the virus while continuing to serve our patients and families. We are following the guidelines of WHO and the CDC and keeping safety our top priority!
Therapists will sanitize any items brought in to the home (such as testing supplies).
Therapists will reschedule visits if there is even the smallest chance of illness.
We believe home health is the safest way to provide therapy because it limits contact with other people.
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For 14 years, our trusted clients have looked to PediaStaff to help them serve special needs children. When schools reopen, whether for summer school, or the start of the 2020-21 school year, they will rely on us more than ever to get services kick-started.
With that in mind, please consider the following opening we are currently looking to fill with a quality therapist like you.
Would you like to work in a school in beautiful Fairbanks, AK? They seek a school-based psychologist for the remainder of this school year with a strong likelihood of contract renewal for 2020-21. Come and see the Northern Lights and embrace all that the last frontier has to offer!
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Editor's Note: This job has just been confirmed, and our client is ready to interview!
Are you wanting to live in wine country and close to water? We have an amazing opportunity for a Speech-Language Pathologist to work thirty minutes south of Napa, in a waterside town. You can't beat these views! The Speech-Language Pathologist will work 37.5 to 40 hours per week with kiddos from Kindergarten through 5th grade.
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Companies Offering Free Subscriptions Due to School Closings - Updates Regularly
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[Source: Kids Activities Blog.com]
With schools closing across the nation, parents and educators are in bit of a panic as they try to figure out how kids can learn and obtain their education from home. If this sounds like you, stop stressing. This is going to be super helpful!
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[Source: Little Puddins]
I have been avidly following the the Coronavirus crisis and now find myself wanting to fulfill my civic duty.
I have created a FREE Coronavirus Social Story to help alleviate fears and anxiety many children may be experiencing at this time.
It seems inevitable now that schools will have to close in an attempt to curb the pandemic Coronavirus crisis.
Download this Free Resource Through a Link on our Blog |
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Children's Books Win Awards For Disability Storylines
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
As the Newbery and Caldecott Medals call out the best new children's titles, several books are being honored for telling stories of those with autism and other disabilities.
The American Library Association named three winners and three honorees of its Schneider Family Book Awards late last month.
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Zoom Giving K-12 Schools His Videoconferencing Tools For Frees
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[Source: Forbes.com]
On Thursday, on the heels of Zoom's biggest day ever for downloads the day before, CEO Eric Yuan was taking the time to remotely sign up schools to free accounts of his videoconferencing software. First was a prestigious school in Silicon Valley, then two schools in the Austin, Texas area.
"They told me they'd connect with my team, and I said, 'no, I'll do that for you,'" said Yuan, reached by Zoom at the San Jose, California-area home that is now his office for the foreseeable future. "I did it manually myself."
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School Tx Corner:
Services to Children with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Outbreak
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[Source: Department of Education]
March 2020: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The CDC has issued interim guidance to help administrators of public and private childcare programs and K-12 schools plan for and prevent the spread of
COVID-19 among students and staff. See Interim Guidance for Administrators of
US Childcare Programs and K-12 Schools to Plan, Prepare, and Respond to
Coronavirus Disease 2019 available at: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-
ncov/specific-groups/guidance-for-schools.html
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OT/PT Corner:
27 Indoor Activities For Kids Stuck at Home
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Editor's Note: This is a great list to send home to the parents/guardians of your clients!
[Source: Buzzfeed]
Pictures are worth 1000 Words
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Worth Repeating:
Articulation Therapy Carryover Activities
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by Sherry Artemenko, CCC-SLP
I have a number of boys, ages 5-8, currently on my caseload, who are working on improving their articulation. They have made great gains in learning to correctly produce their target sounds in words, sentences and conversation within our therapy sessions, but are having trouble making that leap to carryover.
I read with interest Pam Marshalla's "Speech Therapy Answers and Advice" which I always find incredibly practical and helpful. She heard from a parent whose 5 year-old girl is right in the spot I described above-accomplished in her target sound(s) but not moving
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Seasonal Activity of the Week:
Easter Egg Hunt for Kids with Autism
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Thanks to the people at Therapics for reaching out to us to share this free activity! It is great way to teach prepositions whilst helping a child with language challenges participate in the Easter fun. It would make a nice carryover activity to send home with your students/clients over the holiday weekend.
[Source: Therapics]
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