 |
July 5, 2019
Issue 21 Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Independence Day
Please enjoy this abbreviated holiday edition of our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- WATCH: It's Hard To Delay Gratification. Just Ask Cookie Monster
- Parents Fight To Record IEP Meetings
- Race, Ethnicity and Exclusionary Discipline Practice
- Oldie But Goody: Amazing 11-Year Old Brazilian Footballer With No Feet, All the Rage in Rio (Video)
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Special Education Teacher - Buckeye, AZ
- Hot, New Job! Early Intervention SLP - Carmel Hamlet, NY
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- 11 Free Handwriting, Fine, Gross and Visual Perceptual Printables for Summer
- 20 Fantastic Jellyfish Activities
- Therapy Activity of the Week: Outdoor Bingo
- Board Books About Summer
Articles and Special Features
- Pediatric Therapy Corner: 36 Fun Summer Activities for Kids Who are Blind or Multiply Disabled
- Autism Corner: 7 Simple Ways to Improve Your Child's Language Skills
- SLP Corner: Social Dough
Feel free to contact us with any questions about our openings or items in these pages. Have you discovered our RSS feed? Click on the orange button below to subscribe to all our openings and have them delivered to your Feed Reader! Don't have an RSS Feed Reader set up? Sign up at
Blogtrottr and have our blog posts delivered right to your email.
Have a great weekend and Take Care!
Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
|
|
|
The Career Center
The links to the right are "live" and reflect the most recent SLP, OT, PT and related assistant jobs, and ALL our Bilingual and School Psychology Jobs.
To further narrow your search by state,
setting, bilingual, or term, use the
check boxes drop down menus.
If a particular search is returning
no hits it is possible that we do
not currently have new openings for
you with that selection criteria.
To see ALL our openings
click HERE and further narrow your search.
|
|
|
|
|
WATCH: It's Hard To Delay Gratification. Just Ask Cookie Monster
|
[Source: NPR]
Ask Cookie Monster to demonstrate self-control? Sounds like the setup to a joke. The blue, furry monster we grew up with was pure id.
But in recent years, Cookie has evolved as Sesame Workshop has sharpened its focus on social and emotional skills. Research shows that at least half a child's success is determined by those skills.
Read the Rest of This Article Through a Link on our Blog
|
|
Parents Fight To Record IEP Meetings
|
[Source; Disability Scoop]
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Nearly a dozen parents and others told the Columbia Board of Education this week that they favor changing the board policy to allow parents to record the meetings in which their child's special education or disability plan is decided.
The board is expected to make a decision on the issue at its September meeting.
Read the Rest of This Article Through a Link on our Blog
|
|
Race, Ethnicity and Exclusionary Discipline Practice
|
[Source: Science Daily]
Discipline and how it is administered in schools across the US continues to be a hotly debated topic. A new project analyzed how ethnicity and race are associated with school exclusionary discipline practices, which refer to students being removed from school as a form of punishment. Previous studies have found ethnic and racial disparities in the rates of school discipline actions, where ethnic and racial minority students (particularly African American youth) were found to be overrepresented among students that are disciplined.
Read the Rest of this Article Through a Link our Blog |
|
Oldie But Goody: Amazing 11-Year Old Brazilian Footballer With No Feet
|
[Source: Huffington Post]
Gabriel Muniz may have been born without feet, but that hasn't stopped the 11-year-old soccer wunderkind from honing his skills as a formidable sportsman.
In fact, Muniz, who is from Brazil, is so good at the sport that FC Barcelona has invited the mini soccer ace to join their summer training camp, the BBC reports.
The Spanish La Liga soccer club has offered to fly Muniz to Spain in September, where he'll be able to show off his "fancy footwork" and meet his idol, Barça soccer player Lionel Messi.
Watch This Amazing Young Man Play on our Blog |
|
|
Are you interested in a field where you can work with children with special needs and make a difference in their lives?
PediaStaff is now hiring 3 Special Education Teachers for private special education day schools in the Buckeye, AZ area.
Full- time positions are available. The Special Education Teachers will work at either a high school for the 2019-2020 school year. There are 2 positions available for high functioning autism and 1 position available for low functioning autism. The extended school year to be determined.
Learn About / Apply for This Job on our Blog |
|
|
Seeking a Speech-Language Pathologist for Early Intervention and Preschool, Birth to 5. You'll conduct evaluations, assessment, and treatment of children in Putnam County and northern Westchester County. This opportunity is best suited to the self-starting, independent person. It's perfect for the therapist who enjoys charting their own destiny and impacting children and families in a positive way.
Learn About / Apply for This Job on our Blog |
|
11 Free Handwriting, Fine, Gross and Visual Perceptual Printables for Summer
|
[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Need some quick, easy, ideas for summer time to practice handwriting, fine motor, gross motor and visual perceptual skills? Check out all of these free printables that are all set to go to entertain and encourage learning in children over the summer.
Read the Rest of This Article Through a Link on our Blog |
|
20 Fantastic Jellyfish Activities
|
[Article and Image Source: Kids Activities Blog]
Many of you have taken a vacation to the beach this summer, so how about a round up of 20 fantastic jellyfish activities! When we go to the aquarium we try to plan some activities for afterwards, such as coloring some ocean coloring pages. Our favorite part of an aquarium visit has always been the Jellyfish and Seahorses.
Learn More Through a Link on our Blog |
|
|
Special Thanks to Your Therapy Source for this week's Therapy Activity of the Week. Please support our contributors and visit Your Therapy Source!
Download this Freebie Through a Link on our Blog |
|
Board Books About Summer
|
|
[Source: The Jenny Evolution]
Summer to me means simple pleasures, which also mean breaks from the heat and enjoying these adorable children's books about summer. Published in board books, these summer books are perfect for toddlers and younger kids just starting to read.
My kids can't be the only ones counting down until summer comes. And, to be honest, I think I'm even ready for the summer to hit more than my own kids!
|
|
|
|
Peds Tx Corner:
Fun Summer Activities for Kids Who are Blind or Multiply Disabled
|
Source: WonderBaby.org]
During long breaks from school we're always looking for something fun (and preferably educational) for Ivan to do. I like to search through Pinterest and parenting blogs looking for fun summer-time activities, but it can be very difficult to find projects or outings that are appropriate for a young child who is blind and has multiple disabilities.
Read the Rest of this Article Through a Link on our Blog
|
Autism Corner:
7 Simple Ways to Improve Your Child's Language Skills
|
[Source: Autism Digest]
Editor's Note: This article is written for parents. We reprint it here so that you may share it with the parents of your kiddos.
Language and communication - we use them to get our needs met, express ourselves and bond with others. Except, that is, if your child is on the autism spectrum. The one comment I hear most from other parents of children with ASD is that they just wish their child could communicate "better." However, given the structure of the English language,
Read the Rest of this Article Through a Link on our Blog
|
|
SLP Corner: Social Dough
|
by Cindy Meester, MS CCC-SLP
"E" is a first grader in one of our Autism classrooms. She has a lot of great skills but of course social peer relationships can be difficult. I paired her with "J" from her mainstream classroom. It has led to many interesting sessions. I want to share the one from today. This was a spur of the moment idea that worked ..... today.
Read the Rest of this Article Through a Link on our Blog
|
| Did You Get This From a Friend? Sign Up For Your Copy of This Newsletter! |
Would you like pediatric and school-based therapy tips, resources, articles, and news delivered to your computer once a week? Sign up here for our newsletter!
Sign up HERE
|
Quick Links to PediaStaff
|
|
|
| If you would like to opt out of receiving this newsletter, there is a link located in the footer below. However, please note that once you've opted out, we will be unable to send you any future correspondence via newsletter. |
Please Note: The views and advice expressed in articles, videos and other pieces published in this newsletter are not necessarily the views and advice of PediaStaff or its employees but rather that of the author. PediaStaff is not endorsing or implying agreement with the views or advice contained therein, rather presenting them for the independent analysis and information of its readers.
|
|
|
