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October 28, 2016
Issue 43, Volume 9
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
- Preschoolers Can Benefit from Talking Out Loud to Themselves
- Netflix Series To Focus On Teen With ASD
- Youth Football Players Show Brain Changes After Just One Season
- ABA Therapy Difficult To Access For Many Military Families
- Brain Scans of Children with Tourette's Offer Clues to Disorder
- Parent-Led Intervention May Reduce Autism Severity
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Meet PediaStaff! Lucas Steuber, MS-CCC SLP
- Hot Job! Pediatric Outpatient PT - North Houston, TX
- Calling All School Psychologist Interested in WA State!
- Hot Job! Pediatric Outpatient PT - Fairbanks, Alaska
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Pumpkin Geoboard
- Don't Jiggle the Spiders!! Obstacle Course Fun for Kids
- Monster at the End of This Book Grover Craft
- Instagram ReGram of the Week - Frankly I Love To Exercise
Articles and Special Features
- Peds Tx Corner: Tips to Help De-escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students
- School Psych Corner: Mental Health In Schools: A Hidden Crisis
- SLP Corner: Using Literature Combined w/Repetition to Enhance Language Development
- EI Corner: New DOE Guidance on ESSA and Early Learning
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Preschoolers Can Benefit from Talking Out Loud to Themselves
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[Source: Psych Central]
One of the differences between adults and preschoolers when it comes to private speech is that adults typically talk to themselves in their heads, while preschoolers talk to themselves aloud, particularly while playing or working on a task.
Private speech is a good thing for a child's cognitive development; however, it may be important that children monitor and repair errors in their speech, even when talking to themselves.
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Netflix Series To Focus On Teen With ASD
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
A coming-of-age story about a teenager on the autism spectrum and his family is coming to Netflix.
The streaming service said this week that it has given the green light to a new series called "Atypical."
The show focuses on Sam, an 18-year-old with autism who is seeking love and independence. The teen's journey forces his parents and sister to also face change in their lives as they struggle with what it means to be normal, Netflix said.
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Youth Football Players Show Brain Changes After Just One Season
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[Source: Medical News Today]
It is estimated that around 30 million children and adolescents in the United States take part in some form of sports.
While such participation has clear health benefits, the risks cannot be overlooked; each year in the U.S., more than 3.5 million injuries are incurred through youth sports, with the majority occurring in contact sports - such as football.
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ABA Therapy Difficult To Access For Many Military Families
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
It's difficult for some military parents at Fort Bragg, N.C., and other bases nationwide, to find in-network specialists for their children with autism and that's due, in part, to the way federal officials changed health insurance plan reimbursements earlier this year, according to a group of U.S. senators.
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Brain Scans of Children with Tourette's Offer Clues to Disorder
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[Source: Science Daily]
Using MRIs, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified areas in the brains of children with Tourette's syndrome that appear markedly different from the same areas in the brains of children who don't have the neuropsychiatric disorder.
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Parent-Led Intervention May Reduce Autism Severity
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
For the first time, researchers say they have evidence that parent-led intervention for young kids with autism continues to yield gains several years later.
Children who participated in an intervention between the ages of 2 and 4 displayed less severe symptoms six years later, exhibiting fewer repetitive behaviors and better social communication, according to findings published this week in the journal The Lancet.
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Hello readers! I want to take a moment to introduce myself and to announce a great new series that started last month on our blog and newsletter. My name is Lucas Steuber and I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist working for PediaStaff in the southern end of the state of Washington. As part of my role, the team has asked me to interview and share the stories of other PediaStaff contractors to highlight the amazing personalities, experiences, and work they are doing. We're going to be kicking off the series on the 30th of September, but it seems only fair to share a bit about myself if I'm going to write about others.
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Established pediatric therapy clinic in a thriving area of northeast Houston seeks a Physical Therapist to join their team on a full or part time basis.
* They are interested in both experienced therapists as well as new grads with pediatric fieldwork
* You'll work as part of a team of 15 therapists in a large and modern facility
* The staff is outgoing and passionate about providing therapy and they take pride in their open
door policy allowing for great communication and mentoring opportunities
* Their population is heavily neurologically-based
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Hot Jobs! Calling All School Psychologist Interested in WA State!
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Now Hiring Throughout WA!
PediaStaff has several excellent School Psychologist positions open in WA -Yakima, Everett, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver, Centralia, Olympia
These contract positions are available NOW for the 2016/17 School Year.
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Privately owned pediatric therapy clinic is a growing practice in Fairbanks, AK and seeks a pediatric physical therapist to join her team.
* Approach to therapy is a bit different than the norm.
* Offers intensive therapy sessions at few weeks at a time for her patients and has seen great results.
* Position is W-2
* Eligible for $2000+ CE stipend to be used for approved CE courses. The money can be used for course fees, hotel cost, airline tickets, etc.
* Employees accrue .064 hours of paid time off for every hour they work. For example, over the course of a year, a full time employee would accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation.
* In addition, the clinic is closed the week between Christmas and New Year's as a paid vacation for Christmas bonus to staff.
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Seasonal Fine Motor Activity - Pumpkin Geoboard
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[Source: Teaching Mama]
If you're looking for a quick and easy activity for preschoolers this fall, I've got a great activity for you! This pumpkin geoboard is so much fun and also great for working on fine motor skills, math, and creativity. My children love creating on their pumpkin geoboard!
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Don't Jiggle the Spiders!! Obstacle Course Fun for Kids
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[Source: Childhood 101]
This simple obstacle course has been a source of so many laughs with both of my girls since we set it up under our backyard patio. The idea is to travel through the web inspired series of obstacles without jiggling the spiders - and each is attached to a jingle bell to make it extra tricky! Perfect for family fun, Halloween parties or as a physical education activity for preschoolers and grade schoolers.
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Monster at the End of This Book Grover Craft
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[Source: Sugar Aunts]
Do you have a book that you remember reading as a child and LOVING? The Monster at the End of This Book is that one for me. I loved this book as a kid. It is so neat to introduce my kids to books that I loved as a child and now, they are huge Monster at the End of This Book fans, too! Share this book with your kids and make your own Monster at the End of this Book Grover craft.
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Print out this free Frankenstein activity to create. Cut out the pieces to the Frankenstein and attach with brads to create your very own exercising Frank. Kids can move the joints on the Frankenstein and try to copy the movements. Work with a partner - one child moves the joints and the other child copies Frank.
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Peds Tx Corner:
De-escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students
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[Source: Mind Shift]
Students' behavior is a form of communication and when it's negative it almost always stems from an underlying cause. There are many reasons kids might be acting out, which makes it difficult for a teacher in a crowded classroom to figure out the root cause. But even if there was time and space to do so, most teachers receive very little training in behavior during their credentialing programs. On average, teacher training programs mandate zero to one classes on behavior and zero to one courses on mental health. Teacher training programs mostly assume that kids in public schools will be "typical," but that assumption can handicap teachers when they get into real classrooms.
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School Psych Corner:
Mental Health In Schools: A Hidden Crisis
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[Source: NPR]
Part One in an NPR Ed series on mental health in schools.
You might call it a silent epidemic.
Up to one in five kids living in the U.S. shows signs or symptoms of a mental health disorder in a given year.
So in a school classroom of 25 students, five of them may be struggling with the same issues many adults deal with: depression, anxiety, substance abuse.
And yet most children - nearly 80 percent - who need mental health services won't get them.
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SLP Corner:
Literature Combined With Repetition to Enhance Language Development
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[Source: Read it Once Again]
by Rae Shaper, BA MEd
Young children with language delays and autism thrive in an environment filled with visual cues, familiarity, and predictability. When these three factors are combined with repeated readings of familiar children's literature, cognitive learning and language skills flourish. There are specific strategies for combining literature with repetition that have been proven to be successful in helping children with language delays and autism make significant gains in speech and language. Why does using literature combined with repetition work so well? What strategies are most successful when using repetition combined with
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EI Corner:
New DOE Guidance on ESSA and Early Learning
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[Source: School Library Journal]
The US Department of Education released non-regulatory guidance as its first comprehensive look at how the nation's new education law, the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), supports the youngest learners. President Obama signed ESSA into
law in December 2015.
This guidance is intended to remind state and local decision-makers about the opportunities available under the new law to strengthen early education, and to provide examples of how states and local communities can support young children's success in school. This document
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