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July 13, 2018
Issue 28, Volume 11
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
- The Increasingly Efficient Teenage Brain
- 'Left-Cradling Bias' Linked to Better Social Cognitive Abilities in Children
- Virtual World May Help Those With Autism Sharpen Social Skills
- Pucker up, Baby! Lips Take Center Stage in Infants' Brains
- Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy and Motor Planning
- Children with Better Coordination More Likely to Achieve at School
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric Physical Therapist - Huntington, WV
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric PT - Fairbanks, AK
- Hot, New Job! School-Based SLP SY 2018/19 - Buckley, WA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Baby Safe Edible Finger Paint Activity on Foil
- 25 Shark Week Craftivities!
- Perfect Summertime Relay Races for Kids
- Yoga Poses For Kids: Printable Body Awareness Cards
Articles and Special Features
- Parent's Corner: Helping My Nonverbal Son Find His Voice
- Sensory Corner: What Babies Know About Their Bodies and Themselves
- SLP Corner: 5 Tips to Help a Child with Word-Finding Difficulties
- Autism Corner: 5 Ways To Handle a Power Struggle
- School Psych Corner: "How Big is the Feeling" Chart
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The Increasingly Efficient Teenage Brain
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[Source: Science Daily]
Although the human brain's default and executive networks are mostly developed by early childhood, the characteristics of key nodes, or hubs, in these networks continue to mature into adulthood. Many of these changes emerge during adolescence, a crucial transitional period with lasting influence on an individual's mental health.
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'Left-Cradling Bias' Linked to Better Social Cognitive Abilities in Children
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[Source: Science Daily]
The new findings, which also show deeply inbuilt facial recognition skills which enable children to interpret even simple approximations as human faces, suggest the children's cradling preference could help to indicate some social developmental disorders.
The study builds on previous knowledge of a 'left-cradling bias' - the phenomenon that humans will typically cradle a baby on their left side, enabling both parent and child to keep the other in their left visual field - which is unrelated to dominance of the use of right or left hand. Information from the left visual field is processed by the right hemisphere of the brain, which is associated with emotion and the perception of facial expression.
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Virtual World May Help Those With Autism Sharpen Social Skills
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
PLANO, Texas - Kyle Barton is a 28-year-old guy on the autism spectrum. But he lives like the diagnosis isn't there.
It's not that he's in denial; he just doesn't like the autism label.
He's got other things on his mind, such as designing the latest development in a virtual learning program steered by the University of Texas at Dallas' Center for BrainHealth.
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Pucker up, Baby! Lips Take Center Stage in Infants' Brains
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[Source: Science Daily]
A typically developing 2-month-old baby can make cooing sounds, suck on her hand to calm down, and smile at people.
At that age, the mouth is the primary focus: Such young infants aren't yet reaching for objects with their hands or using their feet to get around, so the lips - for eating, pacifying and communicating - multitask.
And at the same time, new research reveals a special neural signature associated with touching the baby's lips, an indicator of how soon infants' brains begin to make sense of their own bodies and a first step toward other developmental milestones.
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Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Therapy and Motor Planning
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Pediatric Physical Therapy published research on hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy and motor planning. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging was used on 9 children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy pre and post 50 hours of HABIT training (hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy).
Further evaluation of bimanual coordination and motor performance was completed using the Assisting Hand Assessment, the average number of shapes matched, the shape matching errors, the reaction time, the 9-hole peg test, and the box and blocks test.
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Children with Better Coordination More Likely to Achieve at School
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[Source: Science Daily]
Young children with better eye-to-hand coordination were more likely to achieve higher scores for reading, writing and math according to new research - raising the possibility schools could provide extra support to children who are clumsy.
Just over 300 children aged four to 11 took part in computer tasks to measure their co-ordination and interceptive timing - their ability to interact with a moving object.
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Are you looking for a pediatric physical therapist position that will allow you to gain experience in more than one setting? Wouldn't it be great if your employer would be willing to help you with tuition reimbursement?
Would you like to work with a talented multi-modality team so you can learn from other therapists? If so, you have found the perfect job. We are searching for a full-time or part-time physical therapist for a pediatric practice located in Huntington, WV. This successful therapy center has a long history in the community, a family-friendly work environment, a strong salary, and a great benefits
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Are you looking for a position as a pediatric Physical Therapist that will allow you to work with cutting-edge therapy interventions? Do you love the outdoors and the thought of exploring the Last Frontier sounds like a dream come true? Have you ever seen the Northern Lights?
Privately owned pediatric therapy clinic is a growing practice in Fairbanks, AK and seeks a pediatric physical therapist to join her team.
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Looking to work in a smaller town that is still close to Tacoma and Seattle? We need a wonderful Speech-Language Pathologist for the 2018-2019 school year to work in the Buckley area, and CFY candidates are welcome to apply! 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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Baby Safe Edible Finger Paint Activity on Foil
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[Source: Hands on As We Grow]
How to Make Baby Safe Edible Finger Paint
- Tin foil
- Plain or vanilla flavored yogurt
- food coloring
My baby is still in the stage where she puts everything in her mouth, so I wanted to make sure this art activity was safe for her.
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25 Shark Week Craftivities
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[Source: Easy Peasy and Fun.com]
Are you ready for shark week? We've been gearing up and that's why we have collected 25+ most awesome shark crafts and activities for kids (and big kids) to make in days to come (or all year round, as these fierce fishes are fun all year round)!
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Perfect Summertime Relay Races for Kids
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[Source: Pink Oatmeal]
Summer is upon us and it's the perfect time to get outside and move. Relay races for kids is a fun way to do this! Whether you are looking for activities for your own kids, a family get together, camp, or summer school you need to check out these kids relay games! The relay games promote physical activity and teamwork. I love the fact that you can race against each other or time your kids so that they race against themselves!
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Yoga Poses For Kids: Printable Body Awareness Cards
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[Source: Childhood 101]
As I shared with our first set of printable
Body Shape Cards (click the link to download), making body shapes has always been a popular activity with the children I have taught and my own kids.
The activity is simple to do. Use your body to make a series of shapes. It's great for developing spatial and body awareness, body control, coordination and balance. And it requires a good dose of concentration and problem solving too.
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Parent's Corner:
Helping My Nonverbal Son Find His Voice
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[Source: New York Times]
"What's his name?" the girl in the park asks me. She is wearing a knit hat that looks like a unicorn and every time her head moves, it nods.
I pause.
This should be an easy question. Except when I look down at her and her little brother, I see they are not looking at my son. They are looking at the screen mounted to his wheelchair. I look at it too, waiting for my son to tap a "hello." But it has only been six months since he's had it, half a year to master a language, and he's watching it too, waiting for the words to telepathically appear. We are all still learning.
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Sensory Corner:
What Babies Know About Their Bodies and Themselves
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[Source: The New York Times]
We are accustomed to thinking about the importance of what even very young babies see and hear, but "touch is the first sensory system to develop in the baby's brain prenatally," and is quite well developed by the time the baby is born, said Andrew Meltzoff, the co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington.
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SLP Corner:
5 Tips to Help a Child with Word-Finding Difficulties
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[Source: Speech Blog UK]
Many of the children I work with (especially those at junior and secondary age) have word-finding difficulties. It's a term you often see written in speech therapy reports. But what exactly does this mean and how can you help?
What is a word-finding difficulty? Basically, a word-finding difficulty is exactly what it sounds like - a difficulty with finding the words you want to say. This is something we all experience from time to time. The easiest way to explain it is that "tip of the tongue" feeling that you get when you can't remember someone's name or a word that you know
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Autism Corner:
5 Ways To Handle a Power Struggle
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[Source: Autism Classroom News & Resources]
Have you worked with a student who you constantly drew you into a power struggle? Ever had a student who seemed to be able to push exactly the buttons that upset you or someone else in your classroom? Or a student who wouldn't back down when you gave him a direction he didn't like?
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School Psych Corner:
"How Big is the Feeling" Chart
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[Source: Grow Therapy via School Psyched, Your School Psychologist]
"This feelings chart is perfect for work with those kids who tend to go from zero to *%#@*! and seem to have no understanding of the stages of escalation, OR for those on the opposite end of the spectrum that seem kind of "flat" or "muted" all the time. Sometimes just being aware that there are other alternatives can kick-start the change process; planting little seeds of the possibility of feeling differently..."
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