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June 15, 2018
Issue 24, Volume 11
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- Ed Department Sued Over Handling Of Disability-Related Complaints
- Functional MRI Reveals Memory in Sleeping Toddlers
- Eye Tracking and Visual Motor Skills in Young Children
- Research for Father's Day: One Of The Greatest Influences On Personality Development Is A Father's Love
- Block Play could Improve Math Skills and Social Functioning
- Music Playschool Enhances Children's Linguistic Skills
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Lead BCBA Openings, Home Based ABA Therapy - Madison, WI
- Hot, New Job! School-Based SLP, 2018-2019 SY - Tacoma, WA
- Hot, New Job! Charter School Psychologist - San Jose, CA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Father's Day Student-Made Book
- Darth Vader Book Mark for Father's Day
- Pinboard of the Week: July 4th and Patriotic Themed Activities
- Summertime Sensory Activity: Ice Cube Painting
Articles and Special Features
- SLP Corner: Speech Intelligibility and Childhood Verbal Apraxia in Children with Down Syndrome
- PT Corner: Hide and Seek
- EI Corner: Early Intervention Must Haves
- OT Corner: The Pencil Snap Grip
- Peds Tx Corner: Dyspraxia in Kids on the Autism Spectrum
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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Ed Department Sued Over Handling Of Disability-Related Complaints
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Disability advocates say that federal education officials acted illegally by fundamentally altering the way they handle discrimination complaints in schools.
A lawsuit filed this week accuses the U.S. Department of Education of skirting its obligation to investigate complaints of disability and race-based discrimination in the nation's schools.
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Functional MRI Reveals Memory in Sleeping Toddlers
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Our ability to remember past events develops rapidly in the first couple of years of life, but it's not clear exactly how this happens. Researchers at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis have now been able to carry out functional MRI brain scans of sleeping toddlers, and show for the first time how specific brain regions are activated during memory recall in two-year-olds.
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Eye Tracking and Visual Motor Skills in Young Children
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
The Journal of Experimental Psychology published research examining eye tracking and visual motor skills in young children. The participants included 40 preschool and early elementary school children. Using head-mounted eye tracking methods visual motor skills were directly measured when the children copied familiar (English letters) and unfamiliar (Cyrillic symbols) forms in real time.
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One Of The Greatest Influences On Personality Development Is A Father's Love
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[Source: Medical News Today]
A father's love contributes as much - and sometimes more - to a child's development as does a mother's love. That is one of many findings in a new large-scale analysis of research about the power of parental rejection and acceptance in shaping our personalities as children and into adulthood.
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Block Play could Improve Math Skills and Social Functioning
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[Source: Psych Central]
The brains of people with high levels of empathy appear to process music differently than those of low-empathy people, according to a new study by researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, finds that high-empathy individuals process familiar music with greater involvement of the brain's reward system as well as in regions associated with processing social information.
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Music Playschool Enhances Children's Linguistic Skills
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[Source: Science Daily]
Researchers at Cognitive Brain Research Unit in the University of Helsinki studied in a community setting whether a low-cost, weekly music playschool provided to 5-6-year-old children in kindergartens affects their linguistic abilities.
The children (N=66) were tested four times over two school-years with phoneme processing and vocabulary subtests, along with tests for perceptual reasoning skills and inhibitory control.
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We are looking for a Lead BCBA to work for a successful ABA provider who will support your professional growth? Do you want excellent income potential, at a growing company that was founded by therapists? These BCBA positions are in the Madison, WI area!
PediaStaff is seeking a BCBA who is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of children and ready for a change.
Learn About / Apply for This Job on our Blog |
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Are you looking to live in a beautiful city in Washington but afraid of the Seattle housing costs? We need a wonderful Speech-Language Pathologist for the 2018-2019 school year to work in the Tacoma area, which boasts a much lower cost of living. The Speech-Language Pathologist would be working at a couple of school sites and be joining a great team environment. We have a full-time opportunity for 37.5 hours a week.
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Silicon Valley is the place to be! We have a fabulous contract opportunity for a School Psychologist for the 2018/19 school year in the Silicon Valley area. Using a blend of traditional instruction, adaptive technology, and targeted tutoring this Charter School strives to meet the unique needs of each and every student. School Psychology position details include:
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Father's Day Student-Made Book
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[Activity and Image Source: Classroom Freebies]
For those of you who will still be in school during June, this Father's Day book is a great, quick activity for your students to complete as gifts for their father, uncle, or grandpa.
All three versions are provided to make it useful for any student.
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Darth Vader Book Mark for Father's Day
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[Article and Image Source: Red Ted Art]
As you may have noticed, we get MANY MANY MANY Corner Bookmark Design Requests via our quickly growing and popular You Tube Craft Channel for kids.....
Read More Through a Link on our Blog |
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Who is planning ahead and looking for some fun patriotic activities to do with your kiddos to celebrate the 4th of July?
The board is loaded with fine motor crafts, word work, handwriting and tracing cards, patterning & sequencing activities, healthy treats to make (great for following directions activities) and more.
Check it all Out Through a Link on our Blog |
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Here is a fun way to explore ice this summer as a sensory "craftivity" with your kiddos!
[Source: First Palette.com]
Materials
- Ice cube tray
- Small plastic bowls
- Plastic spoons
- Food coloring
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SLP Corner:
Speech Intelligibility and CAS in Children with Down Syndrome
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Editor's Note: We originally published this article with permission back in October of 2013. We reprint it here for its enduring value to clinicians
by Libby Kumin; Source: Down Syndrome Online
Many children with Down syndrome have difficulty with speech intelligibility. The present study used a parent survey to learn more about a specific factor that affects speech intelligibility, i.e. childhood verbal apraxia. One of the factors that affects speech intelligibility for children with Down syndrome is difficulty with voluntarily programming, combining, organizing, and sequencing the movements necessary for speech. Historically, this difficulty, childhood verbal apraxia, has not been identified or treated in children with
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PT Corner:
Hide and Seek
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by: Shelley Mannell, PT, C/NDT
We've been playing hide and seek with the topic of muscle tone for a lot of years; I even had one instructor who refused to discuss the topic of tone because we couldn't agree on a definition. I don't recommend that approach, but I certainly understand her frustration. So I read with interest a recent research article that discussed muscle tone in children with CP (1). This study confirmed that it was difficult to distinguish clinically between spasticity and passive muscle stiffness. This is absolutely what we see as clinicians.
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EI Corner:
Early Intervention SLP Must-Haves
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[Source: Home Sweet Speech Room]
So you just accepted a job as an Early Intervention SLP. Maybe you're a CF just starting out. On the other hand, maybe you're a seasoned SLP making a career move. If you're using this summer to get prepared, here's a list of materials, outfit notes, and other necessities that you will need/want to get started.
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OT Corner:
The Pencil Snap Grip
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[Source: The Anonymous OT]
When parents report concerns regarding their child's pencil grasp or handwriting, we often hear that "they push SO hard!" In fact, children using too much pencil pressure might break their utensil or even rip the paper in half while writing.
So what's going on in this situation? Well, per usual, the answer isn't necessarily cut and dry. We'll take a closer look at what we see in the clinic, as well as what the research says.
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Peds Tx Corner:
Dyspraxia in Kids on the Autism Spectrum
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[Source: My Aspergers Child]
Most children with Asperger's (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) have a history of delayed acquisition of motor skills (e.g., handwriting, pedaling a bike, tying shoelaces, catching a ball, opening jars, climbing monkey-bars, etc.), which is called "motor clumsiness." These young people are often visibly awkward, exhibiting rigid gait patterns, odd posture, poor manipulative skills, and significant deficits in visual-motor coordination. Although this presentation contrasts with the pattern of motor development in autistic kids (for whom the area of motor skills is often a relative strength), it is similar in some respects to what is observed in older people with autism.
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