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July 6, 2018
Issue 27, Volume 11
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday!
We hope everyone had a fun and safe Independence Day. Please enjoy our abbreviated holiday edition of our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- Extensive Anesthesia in Early Childhood Tied to Poor Reading, Math Skills
- For Many Kids, Anxiety Persists Into Adulthood Even With Treatment
- Strategic Classroom Intervention Can Make Big Difference for Autism Students
- The Neuroscience of Human Vocal Pitch
- Is Autism Linked to Food Allergies?
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Free Potty Training Visual Schedules
- Social Stories for Expected School Behavior
- Summer Fun with Frozen Ice Paints
Articles and Special Features
- SLP Corner: 5 Tips for Self-Care This Summer
- Autism Corner: How Can You Effectively Teach Visual Schedules?
- OT Corner: It's a Full Moon Moon...and Other Reasons Why Kids are Having an "Off Day"
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Extensive Anesthesia in Early Childhood Tied to Poor Reading, Math Skills
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[Source: Psych Central]
Children who are exposed to a long duration of general anesthesia up to the age of four are at greater risk for poor development as well as reduced reading and number skills as measured by school tests, according to a new Australian study published in the journal Pediatric Anesthesia.
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For Many Kids, Anxiety Persists Into Adulthood Even With Treatment
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[Source; Psych Central]
New research suggests an expanded review of pediatric anxiety disorders is necessary as successful treatment of anxiety issues in childhood may not extend to young adulthood.
Pediatric anxiety disorders are common psychiatric illnesses, affecting approximately 10 percent of children. Past research discovered that 12 weeks of sertraline (brand name Zoloft) and/or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) were effective in reducing anxiety and improving functioning.
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Strategic Classroom Intervention Can Make Big Difference for Autism Students
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[Source: Science Daily]
In a new study, children whose teachers received specialized training "were initiating more, participating more, having back-and-forth conversations more, and responding to their teachers and peers more frequently," said researcher Lindee Morgan.
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The Neuroscience of Human Vocal Pitch
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[Source: Science Daily]
Among primates, humans are uniquely able to consciously control the pitch of their voices, making it possible to hit high notes in singing or stress a word in a sentence to convey meaning. Researchers narrow in on a region of the brain's frontal lobe that controls the "voice box" muscles that are responsible for vocal pitch.
"Our overall goal is to understand how the brain allows us to communicate through speech and language. In this particular study, we wanted to pin down how neural activity controls vocal pitch in the larynx when we talk," says senior author Edward Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco. "It might have implications for understanding how humans evolved the ability to speak."
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Is Autism Linked to Food Allergies?
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Could there be a link between autism and food allergies? A new study from the University of Iowa suggests one, but researchers are still trying to discover how and why.
The
study, published this month, found that children with autism are more than twice as likely to experience a food allergy than children who do not have ASD.
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Looking for a nurse position with easier hours? We have a fabulous new job opportunity for a School Nurse to work with a great school district in the Seattle area. This opportunity would be a 5-day per week commitment working 7-8 hour days. This is a 1:1 position, and we need someone who is willing to ride the bus. Experience with trach or vent a plus.
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Are you thinking of getting out of the city and escaping the metropolitan rush? We have a Pediatric Outpatient Occupational Therapist opportunity in Rome, Georgia where the rivers meet and the mountains begin. This northwestern city in Georgia is a find for hikers and nature lovers, about an hour from Atlanta.
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Free Potty Training Visual Schedules
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[Source: And Next Comes L]
I often hear about how frustrating the potty training process is for parents, especially parents of autistic or hyperlexic children. Just go into any online support group and it won't take you long to find a discussion about this particular topic.
One thing that is helpful when potty training autistic or hyperlexic children is using a visual support of some kind, such as a visual schedule or routine chart. There are many
benefits to using visual schedules and they can be tailor made to any situation or skill you are trying to teach. So why not potty training?
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Social Stories for Expected School Behavior
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[Source: Autism Tank]
Looking for some tools to have ready in your classroom day one of the school year to help your kiddos learn expected behaviors for a variety of school environments? I love using
these stories that cover some of the most important social skills needed in school.
What are social narratives (or stories)? They describe social situations by providing explanations of the feelings and thoughts of others in the social situation. Social narratives can help students with autism eliminate problem behaviors, especially when they are told what TO DO in place of any problem behaviors. Using text and/or pictures can help your students better comprehend the content of the story.
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Summer Fun with Frozen Ice Paints
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[Source: The Imagination Tree]
Make some amazing, vibrant frozen ice paints for summer fun and creativity
outdoors! Perfect for combining cool down time and creativity this summer!
We are always on the lookout for more fun ways to get creative and especially for activities that suit the range of ages of the kids (currently 3, 6, 8 and 9 years old.) This was a winner!
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SLP Corner:
5 Tips for Self-Care This Summer
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[Source; Crazy Speech World]
Well heyyyyy stranger! I could totally be talking to myself, it's been so long since I've done a blog post. It's not you, it's me...I'm gonna be honest, the end of the school year chewed me up and spit me out. I literally spent the first week decompressing. And by decompressing, I mean I laid on the couch, watched the entire series of Dawson's Creek, and barely lifted a finger to do anything else. I was exhausted. And I guess, as school
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Autism Corner:
How Can You Effectively Teach Visual Schedules
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[Source: Autism Classroom Resources]
How do you teach visual schedules? Try this scenario. You are starting in a new class or trying to start implementing visual schedules but your students don't know how to use them yet. You have put the schedules up and in place but your students only use them with hand-over-hand prompting. And your staff isn't quite sure what to do with them. So consequently they aren't moving your students towards independence? Or maybe some of your students are using them but you have students who aren't making headway in this great independence people tell you visuals can provide.
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OT Corner:
It's a Full Moon..and Other Reasons Why Kids are Having an "Off Day"
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[Source: The Anonymous OT]
We're smack dab in the middle of one of those tricky transition periods of the year. We just had a holiday, the weather is getting warmer, and school is out. Children might be all over the place, having more meltdowns or behavioral issues than you've seen in a long time. So, why is everyone such a mess?
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