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May 10, 2019
Issue 19, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday!
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- How Girls & Boys with Autism Tell Stories May Be Key to Missed Diagnoses in Girls
- Smart Glasses May Help Kids with Autism Recognize Emotions
- Many See Empathy as Requiring Too Much Mental Effort
- Research Confirms, that Yes, a Box Encourages a Child's Imagination
- Wearable Motion Detectors Identify Subtle Motor Deficits in Children
- Screening Tests for Vestibular Dysfunction in Children
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! 2019-2020 School Psychologist - Yakima, WA
- Hot, New Job! ESY Special Education Teacher - Mount Prospect, IL
- Hot, New Job! 2019-20 School SLP - Fairbanks, AK
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Fine Motor Skills Game - Eat the Cheese Freebie
- Game Recommendation: Yeti in My Spaghetti - A Fun Speech Therapy Game
- Therapy Idea of the Week: Simple Kids Flower Sewing for Fine Motor Practice
- 50 Flower Crafts for Kids
Articles and Special Features
- Career Corner: Mentors are Everywhere
- SLP Corner: Stuttering During the Preschool Years
- OT Corner: 10 Realities of the OT "Brushing Protocol"
- PT Corner: Run, Run, Run As Fast As You Can!
- School Psych Corner: How to Foster Sympathy in Your Children at a Young Age
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How Kids with Autism Tell Stories May Be Key to Missed Diagnoses in Girls
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[Source: Psych Central]
Boys are four times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet a growing body of research shows that the condition is more common in girls than previously thought, suggesting that new methods are required to diagnose the disorder at younger ages.
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Smart Glasses May Help Kids with Autism Recognize Emotions
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[Source: Psych Central]
A team at Stanford Medical School has combined facial recognition software with smart glasses to help children with autism identify emotions and facial expressions.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who used the smart glasses while receiving conventional behavioral therapy experienced greater gains in social skills compared with those who received only behavioral therapy, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Many See Empathy as Requiring Too Much Mental Effort
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[Source: Psych Central]
Empathy, the ability to understand the feelings of others, has long been hailed as a virtue that encourages helping behaviors. But a new study finds that many people don't want to feel empathy, primarily because they believe it requires too much mental effort.
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Research Confirms, that Yes, a Box Encourages a Child's Imagination
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Every parent can attest to the phenomenon of watching a child play with a cardboard box while an expensive toy sits on the shelf.
In a child's mind, a cardboard box can be so many things that the possibilities are endless. In contrast, a spaceship or unicorn toy during play usually remain, well, a spaceship or unicorn.
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Wearable Motion Detectors Identify Subtle Motor Deficits in Children
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
A wristwatch-like motion-tracking device can detect movement problems in children whose impairments may be overlooked by doctors and parents, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The findings, published April 26 in JAMA Network Open, could help identify
children with subtle motor impairments so they can be treated before the limitations develop into potentially significant and
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Screening Tests for Vestibular Dysfunction in Children
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Research indicates that children with hearing impairment may have vestibular loss as well. This may be indicated by the following:
- children who exhibit hearing and vestibular loss may learn to walk later.
- bike riding, and other balance related gross motor skills may be difficult to learn.
- reading acuity may be impaired.
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Are you looking to secure a job now in the beautiful Yakima area for the 2019-2020 school year? PediaStaff needs you for a School Psychologist position, and we are able to consider new graduates. If you kayak, bike, climb mountains, hike or ride horses when it's warm, or do snow sports when it's cold, you'll love it here in the Yakima Valley.
* Sunny climate and year-round outdoor recreation
* Low cost of living
* Only about two hours from Seattle
* Supportive team environment
* New graduates - School Psychologist will make a high income with option to convert to a District employee later
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ESY Special Education teacher needed to work in a therapeutic day school setting near Mt. Prospect, IL beginning June 17th! If you are looking for summer work and are an LBS1 certified teacher, apply here today!
* You will work from 8:30-2:30 Monday-Thursday beginning June 17 and ending on July 25th, 2019
* You will have the opportunity to possibly stay on and work the regular 2019-2020 school year if interested
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Alaska is calling! A school system in Fairbanks, AK seeks two Speech-Language Pathologists with school or pediatric experience for the 2019-20 school year.
* New Grad SLP-CFs will be considered
* The caseload consists of schools in and around Fairbanks with a variety of diagnoses
* Therapist will be working in a few schools within a short drive time radius
* The therapist will work five days a week approximately seven hours per day and enjoy the benefits of working a school calendar year
* We will help you relocate to the area and you will need a car and help finding housing is available, too
* We also have contractors on assignment there who will be happy to talk with you about their experience.
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Fine Motor Skills Game - Eat the Cheese Freebie
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Eat the Cheese requires very little preparation and the directions are simple. You could also modify the game as needed depending on the skill level of the child.
Preparation:
Download and print out the one-page color printable. An adult or the child can cut out the cat and the mouse. An adult will probably have to cut out the two circles in each animal.
The child can cut out the 12 pieces of cheese. Encourage the child to use their thumb, index and middle fingers to crinkle each piece of cheese. These are the three active fingers when holding a pencil and other small objects.
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Yeti in My Spaghetti - A Fun Speech Therapy Game
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[Source: Scanlon Speech Therapy]
As a speech language pathologist (SLP) who "plays" throughout the day, I've amassed a cornucopia of toys and games to foster the development of various speech, language, and social communication skills.
One game I recently discovered thanks to Patch Products, a toy company and creator of the magical Okay to Wake Alarm Clock, is Yeti in My Spaghetti Board Game.
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Therapy Idea of the Week: Simple Kids Flower Sewing
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[Source: Childhood 101]
We attend a great playgroup once a week and this was one of our recent creative projects - a cardboard flower with holes punched for threading a long length of wool through. I thought it was a great idea and immediately thought to make a more permanent version for Immy's sewing basket.
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50 Flower Crafts for Kids
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[Source: Growing a Jeweled Rose]
Spring is finally here, and with that we have flowers on our mind. We can't wait to plant and craft this Spring! Are you excited, too? Here are 50 fun and creative flower crafts to help get you started this Spring.
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Career Corner:
Mentors are Everywhere
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Teresa Roberts, MS, CCC-SLP
We are surrounded by mentors every day. It might not feel like it, because we may have a narrow definition of mentorship. If we limit the concept of mentorship to a formalized agreement between two people, we may miss out on the broad view of mentorship. Any work interaction provides us with a learning opportunity. In fact, we can cultivate mentorship from others by our own actions. Colleagues, related professionals, and administrators may enjoy informal mentorship roles when they are formed naturally.
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SLP Corner:
Stuttering During the Preschool Years
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by Mirla Raz, CCC-SLP
The formative preschool years, when a child's speech and language skills progress by leaps and bounds, is also the time when the seed of stuttering often take root. Ignored or inadvertently fertilized, the roots of stuttering grow longer and stronger until the growing child is unable to uproot it.
Those of us who have worked with adults who stutter understand the enormity of their struggle to speak fluently. When working with someone who stutters, it is easy to lose sight of the time when it began to take root. That begs the question as to how we can help children during those critical preschool years. Perhaps the answer is not complicated.
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OT Corner:
10 Realities of the OT "Brushing Protocol"
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[Source: The Anonymous OT]
If you are familiar with occupational therapy in a pediatric or sensory setting, you have likely been introduced to "the brush." But how much do you really know about this intervention tool?
1. You're not supposed to call it "brushing."
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PT Corner:
Run, Run, Run As Fast As You Can!
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[Source: HeartSpacePT]
A few weeks ago I had occasion to assess a lovely little girl. Her mom had several concerns one of which was her incoordination during running. I noted that there were difficulties with alignment in all positions/activities (pelvis and rib cage tending to stabilize at end range rather than display mid-range control) and this was interfering with her recruitment of the anticipatory core team for central stability as well as several reactive
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School Psych Corner:
How to Foster Sympathy in Children at a Young Age
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Editor's Note: Thank You @ariyares on Twitter for calling our attention to this article.
[Source: Lifehacker.com]
Parents and teachers might often wonder how to teach children caring toward others-more so when the world feels full of disagreement, conflict, and aggression.
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