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June 8, 2018
Issue 23, Volume 11
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- Gauging Language Proficiency Through Eye Movement
- Motor Performance and Social Problems in Children with ADHD
- Pre-School and School-Age Irritability Predict Reward-Related Brain Function
- Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms May Worsen with Periods
- Mobile App for Autism Screening/Yields Useful Data
- Attentive Adults Increase Children's Ability to Empathize
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! School Psychologist - Waukegan, IL
- Hot, New Job! Summer Pediatric SLP Supervisor - Long Beach, CA
- Hot, New Job! Part-time Pediatric Sensory Integration OT - Atlanta, GA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Leaf Printing Art
- Spelling with Tin Can Drums
- Pinterest Pinboard of the Week: Summertime and End of the Year Therapy Fun
- Book Review: When My Worries Get Too Big
Articles and Special Features
- PT Corner: Bringing PT Home for Kids with Down Syndrome and Their Parents
- Pediatric Therapy Corner: Art Makes Sense - Sensory Art Therapy
- Worth Repeating: Helping Your Child Produce the /g/ Sound at Home
- Sensory Corner: Staying Comfortable in the Summer During Often Overstimulating Activities
- OT Corner: Pushing the Birds out of the Nest
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Gauging Language Proficiency Through Eye Movement
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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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Motor Performance and Social Problems in Children with ADHD
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
The Journal of Attention Disorders published research on motor performance and social problems in children with ADHD comparing parent and teacher ratings on the Conners' Rating Scales-Revised. The participants included 129 children (9-12 years old) who were assessed with the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development for motor skill development and the Conners' Rating Scales-Revised for social problems and ADHD symptomology. The rating scale was completed by their teachers and parents
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Pre-School and School-Age Irritability Predict Reward-Related Brain Function
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Preschool irritability and concurrent irritability were uniquely associated with aberrant patterns of reward-related brain connectivity, highlighting the importance of developmental timing of irritability for brain function, finds a study published in the June 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP).
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Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms May Worsen With Periods
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[Source: Psych Central]
Symptoms associated with borderline personality disorder tend to worsen just before and during menses, according to a new study.
Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness marked by an ongoing pattern of varying moods, self-image and behavior, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Mobile App for Autism Screening/Yields Useful Data
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[Source: Psych Central]
The study, described June 1 in an open access journal npj Digital Medicine, points the way to broader, easier access to screening for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
The app first administers caregiver consent forms and survey questions and then uses the phone's 'selfie' camera to collect videos of young children's reactions while they watch movies designed to elicit autism risk behaviors, such as patterns of emotion and attention, on the device's screen.
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Attentive Adults Increase Children's Ability to Empathize
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[Source: Science Daily]
With her colleagues, developmental psychologist Elia Psouni has studied the simplest form of this ability: children's understanding that other people may have a false belief about something - because they lack information. As part of the study, children 33-to-54 months old were asked to predict what would happen next in an illustrated story that was suddenly interrupted. The researchers studied whether the children's ability to predict that the main figure in the story would make a "wrong move," since he held a false belief,
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Full-time School Psychologist is needed for the SY 2018-19 in a Charter school located in North Chicago. Are you looking for a place that you can work with a team of professionals in the field of School Psychology for the upcoming school year? We have the best opportunity and we're ready to interview!
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Would you like to work in a beautiful building overlooking the ocean? This Long Beach pediatric clinic is seeking a supervising Speech-Language Pathologists for a six-week summer contract.
* Immediate start for a six-week contract to supervise only
* SLP-CCC will supervise SLP-CFs and SLPAs.
* The majority of our patients are between the ages of 2-10, although we do see some teenagers and periodically adults
* Clinic Hours: 9:00 - 6:00 Monday through Thursday; 8:00 - 5:00 Friday (no weekends or evenings)
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New graduates welcome!
Would you like to become part of a prestigious Atlanta pediatric sensory integration clinic where "play is therapy"? We are seeking a full-time and part-time Sensory Integration Occupational Therapist for an exceptional opportunity to grow into management and possibly ownership. The part-time schedule will include 1 full day (Monday 10 - 6), with 3 afternoons and Fridays off. This is NOT your typical therapy practice so we are not looking for a typical therapist. New Grads with pediatric experience will be considered.
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Leaf Printing Art
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[Source: The Imagination Tree]
Printing is one of my most favorite art forms, along with collage and sculpture. I love how you can take simple household items, cut fruit and vegetables and many items from nature and use them print such a wide range of shapes and patterns.
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Spelling with Tin Can Drums
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[Source: And Next Comes L]
My boys like to make noise and banging on drums is just one way that they do it. We have explored tempo using drums
, played rainbow drums on the light table
, and made bucket drums
in the past. However, I wanted to somehow incorporate some literacy learning into a drum activity, especially since J is reading, spelling, and writing, and K is already reading quite a few words by sight too. I wanted to encourage them to learn some new words and practice spelling them.
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Looking for activities for the End of the Year and Summertime? How about a great link to share with the parents of your kiddos to keep them engaged in therapy over the next three months?
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How many kids do you know with Attention Deficit Disorder who don't live with anxiety? I know very few. Anxiety and ADD go hand-in-hand for many children, especially in the classroom. The National Association on Mental Illness stated that, "According to a 2008 NIMH-supported study, over 30 percent of children living with ADHD also live with anxiety."
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PT Corner:
Bringing it Home for Kids with Down Syndrome and Their Parents
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By: Stacy Menz, DPT, Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist
Kids with Down Syndrome typically have low muscle tone. This doesn't always mean anything to people with 'typical' muscle tone so I like to use an analogy to help people grasp what it means to have low muscle tone. Think about how we as adults feel at the end of a long day when you finally get to sink into your couch or favorite chair to relax for a few minutes. Your whole body lets down and you melt into that couch or chair and then someone calls for you and you have to get back up. Think of how much energy it takes to convince your muscles and body to move, and then for them to actually get moving. That's the amount of energy kids with low
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Pediatric Therapy Corner:
Art Makes Sense - Sensory Art Therapy
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By: Pamela Ullmann, ATR-BC, LCAT
Creative art making can offer unique ways for children to gain a sense of control and mastery of their environment, grow in self expression, self awareness and self-esteem. This holds true for children with special needs, ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), and other developmental issues as well. However, these children very often have "sensory" issues or sensory integration disorder which can affect their responses to various art materials.
That is why it is important to have a trained and credentialed art therapist or related professional assess the child and create a customized program that can help the child with sensory issues while at the same time engage in creative expression.
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Sensory Corner:
Staying Comfortable in the Summer
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[Source: The Child Mind Institute]
By Rae Jacobson
For many kids, summer vacation holds the promise of months of school-free fun. But for children with sensory processing issues, summer can be a challenging time.
From the sand on the beach to the fireworks on the Fourth of July, the season is full of exciting but potentially difficult experiences. An unfamiliar playground, a visit to an amusement park, a messy ice cream cone: all involve sensory surprises that can be overwhelming or upsetting if a child is unusually sensitive to light, noise, and tactile sensations. But with some preparation and planning parents can help kids with sensory issues get the most out of summertime.
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OT Corner:
Pushing the Birds out of the Nest
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By Eleanor Cawley M.S. OTR/L
When is it time to discharge?: This is always one of the biggest questions when it comes down to CSE Meetings and whether or not to recommend services for students next year. Of course, in a school-based setting, the big 'money makers' are handwriting and now keyboarding. Before making that decision, I think that it is important to look at the student's level of function in a particular environment. I feel that when we report progress a rubric is very important but so is the environment or context in which the skill is performed. When I look at either handwriting or keyboarding I look at the following:
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Worth Repeating:
Helping Your Child Produce the /g/ Sound at Home
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[Source: North Shore Pediatric Therapy]
It is common for young children to make certain sound substitutions as their speech and language skills are developing. One example is substituting /t/ for /k/ (e.g. saying "tar" instead of "car"); another is substituting /d/ for /g/ (e.g. saying "do" instead of "go"). By the age of 3, however, most typically-developing children are able to accurately produce the /k/ and /g/ consonant sounds.
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