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April 12, 2019
Issue 15, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday!
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric Occupational Therapist - Houston, TX
- Hot, New Job! ESY School-Based Physical Therapist - New Lenox, IL
- Hot, New Job! 2019-202 School SLP - Buckley, WA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Simple Earth Suncatcher for Earth Day
- Great Reads For Earth Day
- Earth Day Ideas to Encourage Fine Motor, Gross Motor and Coordination Skills
- Seasonal Activity of the Week: Green Eggs & Ham!
Articles and Special Features
- Career Corner: Late Night with New Practitioners - Top 5 Tips for Your First 5 Years on the Job
- SLP Corner: How I Improved My Cultural Competence as a New SLP
- OT Corner: When Can Kids Learn to Button and Zip?
- Pediatric Tx Corner: How To Teach Frustration Tolerance
- School Psych Corner: Diversification of School Psychology - Developing an Evidence Base From Current Research and Practice
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Have a great weekend and Take Care!
Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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Kids Store 1.5 MB of Information to Master Their Native Language
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[Source: Science Daily]
But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition, rather than something humans are just hardwired to do.
Researchers calculated that, from infancy to young adulthood, learners absorb approximately 12.5 million bits of information about language - about two bits per minute
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Musical Training May Improve Attention
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[Source; Medical News Today]
The benefits of music for the human brain are numerous.
Some studies have suggested that musical training improves blood flow in brain areas involved in language processing.
More recent research has shown that listening to music may even "motivate" the brain to learn by stimulating neural networks associated with reward processing.
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Lawmakers Look To Fully Fund IDEA
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Bipartisan legislation to substantially increase Uncle Sam's investment in special education is back on the table.
Federal funding for educating students with disabilities would gradually increase under a bill known as the IDEA Full Funding Act, which was introduced by lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives late last month.
The measure calls for incremental hikes in federal funding for special education, with the government taking on 40 percent of the cost - a level known as "full funding" - beginning in fiscal year 2029.
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Trump Backs Off Plan To Defund Special Olympics
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
After his education secretary spent three days fiercely defending a plan to eliminate federal funding for Special Olympics, President Donald Trump reversed course.
Trump told reporters late Thursday that his administration will support continued federal funding of Special Olympics.
"The Special Olympics will be funded. I just told my people, I want to fund the Special Olympics and I just authorized a funding of the Special Olympics," Trump said. "I've been to the Special Olympics. I think it's incredible and I just authorized a funding. I heard about
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Childhood Trauma has Lasting Effect on Brain Connectivity in Patients w/Depression
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[Source: Science Daily]
A study found that childhood trauma is linked to abnormal connectivity in the brain in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD). The paper shows symptom-specific, system-level changes in brain network connectivity in MDD. The paper, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first data-driven study to show symptom-specific, system-level changes in brain network connectivity in MDD.
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An EEG to Assess a Baby's Developmental Risk?
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[Source: Science Daily]
Does exposure to stress early in life affect a baby's brain development, and is there a way to single out babies who might benefit from early intervention? A two-center study led by Boston Children's Hospital, published today in JAMA Pediatrics, used brain EEGs to begin to get at these questions in an objectively measurable way. It found that infants whose mothers reported high levels of stress have a distinct pattern of brain activity as measured by EEG - at only 2 months of age.
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Immediate opening available for an Occupational Therapist with one of our best clients in Houston. This facility serves children on the Westside of Houston in all disciplines. We provide training and mentorship to help you be successful with a wide variety of children on your caseload.
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Are you an SLP looking for a Spring gig? PediaStaff is seeking a full-time Speech-Language Pathologist to work in an early childhood setting starting May1 until mid-June. What greater reward than helping a child during his/her first few years of life?
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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 2019-2020 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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Simple Earth Suncatcher for Earth Day
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[Source: No Time for Flashcards]
Taking care of the earth is a big job and it requires teamwork. In the spirit of Earth Day and working together a bunch of rad kid bloggers and I decided to share Earth Day crafts today in a blog hop. There are so many fun Earth Day projects from us , Marie over at
Make & Takes, Holly at
Kids Activities Blog, Christine at
Childhood 101, Stacey at Kid Stuff World and Becky at
Patchwork Posse. You can find the links below our super ( like seriously super) easy earth suncatcher craft tutorial.
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Great Reads For Earth Day
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Earth Day is coming up and because I love the outdoors so much, I feel that it is important to teach our little ones the importance of taking care of the Earth. We begin our year with a "Green Team" unit and refer back to it often. Here our some books I like to share with my kids throughout the year.
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Earth Day Ideas to Encourage Fine Motor, Gross Motor, and Coordination Skills
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
1. Earth Day Crafts: Create collages out of recycled materials. The children can cut up recycled cardboard or magazines to create a collage. Perhaps think of a theme such as healthy foods or exercise. Maybe write the child's name in large bubble letters and glue on the recycled pictures.
2. Earth Day Challenge: Who can create the tallest recycled tower? See how many recycled boxes or containers you can stack before it falls over. Depending upon where you place the boxes, this activity encourages the child to squat down, reach high, motor plan and more.
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Seasonal Activity of the Week: Green Eggs & Ham!
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Editor's Note! Please enjoy this oldie but goody that we originally posted five years ago!
The Easter stuff is already out, so it should be easy to find plenty of green plastic eggs for this adorable activity.
We shared this on
Instagram last week. Some suggestions included:
- Cut up students' target articulation words and put inside eggs
- Clues for a treasure hunt. Hide Seuss goodies (pencils, Seuss book of the day, etc)
- Gross Motor Activities inside each egg
- Rewards...open an egg at the end of every session or after good behavior.
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Career Corner:
Top 5 Tips for Your First 5 Years on the Job
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Editor's Note: Nice Career article on AOTA. Written for OTs but it works well for any therapy clinician starting out!
[Source: AOTA - New Practitioners Forum]
by Melissa Stutzbach
Landing your first job as an OT practitioner is an exciting time, but no one ever said starting off in the field would be easy. Managing your own caseload for the first time with little experience in a new professional environment
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it is a major change from life as a student.
We talked to Tracy McLaughlin, occupational therapist at Summerville Medical Center outside of Charleston, SC, who believes that your first few years as an OT practitioner can be a lot more rewarding and less daunting with a positive attitude and a forward-thinking perspective. Here are Tracy's top 5 tips for how to make the most out of your first 5 years on the job.
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SLP Corner:
How I Improved My Cultural Competence as a New SLP
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[Source: The ASHA Leader Blog]
I often experienced uncertainty and occasionally confusion during my first year practicing speech-language pathology. I worked in an urban area with a wide array of children, encompassing many different races, languages and cultures.
I wondered about many unfamiliar situations and asked myself-and more experienced SLPs-many questions: When treating a child who is bilingual, do I treat everything, when I don't know the rules of their native language? When a parent didn't complete home practice, was it their fault or mine?
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OT Corner:
When Can Kids Learn to Button and Zip?
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Editor's Note: This article was written for parents and guardians and would be an excellent share with your clients's caregivers.
[Source: Mama OT]
It's raining cats and dogs and you're rushing to get the kids out the door.
Your 8-year-old throws on her coat while quickly zipping and snapping it up.
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Pediatric Tx Corner:
How To Teach Frustration Tolerance
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By Katie Hurley, LCSW
A mother of a six-year-old boy called me in tears. After yet another meltdown in his classroom, the teacher requested a meeting with the parents. The mother assured me that her son is sweet, funny and very bright. He's the life of the party at home and has tons of friends. The meltdowns, she thought, paled in comparison to the rest of his personality.
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School Psych Corner:
Diversification of School Psychology
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[Source: PsycNet at APA.org]
Why is there a need to increase the racial/ethnic diversity of faculty in school psychology? Chiefly, school psychologists serve the most racially/ethnically diverse population: children in US schools. Therefore, developing a knowledge base that is inclusive of this wide range of perspective as well as growing a workforce that is reflective of this diversity is essential to effective service delivery. To achieve this goal, school psychology trainers must develop
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