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April 14, 2017
Issue 10, Volume 10
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter! Happy Passover and Easter too, to all those those observing!
News Items:
- Children Notice what Adults Miss, Study Finds
- Supreme Court FAPE Ruling May Be A Watershed Moment
- Providing Emotional Support for Military Children (Video)
- ASD: Communication Deficits and Motor Skills
- When My Son on the Spectrum Told Me What He Thought of Sesame Street's Julie
- Will Cameras in Special Education Classrooms Protect Students?
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot Jobs: Pediatric / Early Intervention SLP and OT - Dover, Delaware
- Hot Job: Pediatric SLP - Fayetteville, AR
- Hot Job: School Psychologist - Naperville, IL
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Why We Do What We Do: 6-Year-Old Boy with CP Walks to His U.S. Marine Father for the First Time
- Peeps Parachute Stem Challenge
- 5 Ways to Use Straws
- Simple Earth Suncatcher for Earth Day
Articles and Special Features
- SLP Corner: Playing with Sounds Leads to Phonemic Awareness
- Career Corner: 10 Tips to Help You Rock Your OT (or other therapy) Fieldwork
- PT Corner: Helping Kids Learn to Balance
- Sensory Corner: Sensory Sensitivity - A Video
- School Psych Corner: Relational Aggression and Why Kids Engage In It
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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Children Notice what Adults Miss, Study Finds
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[Source: Science Daily]
Although adults can beat children at most cognitive tasks, new research shows that children's limitations can sometimes be their strength. In two studies, researchers found that adults were very good at remembering information they were told to focus on, and ignoring the rest. In contrast, 4- to 5-year-olds tended to pay attention to all the information that was presented to them - even when they were told to focus on one particular item.
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Supreme Court FAPE Ruling May Be A Watershed Moment
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision affirming a high standard for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandate that children with disabilities be provided a free appropriate public education is likely to have significant implications for years to come.
In a ruling last month, the high court found that public schools must provide students with disabilities more than a minimal benefit.
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Providing Emotional Support for Military Children (Video)
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[Source: Education Week]
For military children, life at home can be chaotic - families relocate frequently, and parents may be suddenly deployed. At Camp Lejune, N.C., child-care centers understand the impact these pressures may have on young children, and work to create safe and stable spaces for them to thrive. How do these teachers respond to the unique needs of their students?
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ASD: Communication Deficits and Motor Skills
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders published research investigating the connection between motor skills (oral-motor, manual-motor) and speech and language deficits. Data analysis was performed examining a registry from children with autism spectrum disorder who completed a multidisciplinary evaluation that included diagnostic, physical, cognitive and behavioral assessments. After adjusting for age, non-verbal IQ, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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When My Son on the Spectrum Told Me What He Thought of Sesame Street's Julie
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[Source: The Mighty]
When the "60 Minutes" segment about Julia, Sesame Street's new autistic muppet character, aired, within minutes my Facebook feed was filled with stories about it, and my phone started pinging with text messages.
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Will Cameras in Special Education Classrooms Protect Students?
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[Source: PBS News Hour]
To help prevent students with disabilities from being abused at school, Texas now requires cameras in special education classrooms upon request. But is this the best solution? (April 4, 2017)
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We are searching for a dedicated pediatric speech-language pathologist and an occupational therapist for the Dover, DE area who enjoys working in a community based setting treating children ages birth to five with disabilities. New grads and experienced therapists are welcome to apply. New grads will have access to highly experienced therapists for a wonderful mentoring relationship.
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We are currently recruiting for a Pediatric SLP who has some clinical Peds experience to join a growing team in Northwest Arkansas. Northwest Arkansas was rated as the Third Best Place to Live in America by a recent national publication! So...why wouldn't consider living in the Ozark Mountains where the air is clean...the people friendly and outdoor activities abound. You would be in a community that boasts a major university...The
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School Psychologist needed to work as a contractor to fill a Maternity LOA for 12 weeks near Woodridge, IL starting in August!
* School Psychologist needed full time in an elementary school
* Position involves behavior support, social skills training
* Offer specialized programs for cognitive disabilities
* Lead problem solving teams
* Be current with technology
* Psychologist MUST be familiar with RTI
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Editor's Note: This an oldie but goodie that we never published here. It came up in our feed and I had to share it. Enjoy!
[Source: Welcome Home Blog/YouTube]
"When my husband left on his deployment, our 6-year-old son could not walk on his own. He has cerebral palsy. Doctors originally said that he would never walk or do much of anything. While daddy was away, he learned to walk. For his homecoming, we set it up for Michael to walk to his daddy for the first time ever! We kept the fact that he could walk a secret the whole time his dad was gone!"
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Peeps Parachute Stem Challenge
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Editor's Note: This would be great fun to do with your speech students to promote storytelling and conversation - especially now that the weather is nice. There are some great stories to be created in this activity!!
[Source: The PreSchool Toolbox]
PEEPS Parachute STEM Design Challenge Objectives: To encourage young children to use creativity and critical thinking skills to design, make predictions, and test the predictions to observe outcomes.
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5 Ways to Use Straws
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[Source Brick by Brick]
Straws are a great resource to have on hand in your classroom. Here are five ways we've used them!
1. Build with them. Or at least use them in your blocks center. We've explored all kinds of things in the blocks center and straws make interesting additions to block creations or other construction play.
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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
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SLP Corner:
Playing with Sounds Leads to Phonemic Awareness
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Editor's Note: Thank You to Reading Rockets for suggesting this article.
According to Teresa Byington, associate professor of early childhood education, University of Nevada, "We can help our children develop their phonemic awareness and the best way is to play games with them as part of regular, daily routines."
Literacy experts tell us that reading and writing skills begin with the language skills of speaking and listening. As children develop language, their skills grow more and more refined. So, in the early years, even though they may be using words, they are not necessarily hearing the individual sounds in words-the phonemes.
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Career Corner:
Tips to Help You Rock Your OT (or other) Fieldwork
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Editor's Note: We love Christie's Mama OT Blog.
Hopefully she won't mind that we think she should alter her title just a smidgen. These tips are completely perfect for SLPs, PTs, School Psychologists, and all the other clinical educators that read our blog!
[Source: Mama OT]
Jessica is a first year OT student who will be starting her Level II fieldwork in an acute care hospital setting. She is super nervous because she is shy and gets nauseous at the sight of blood.
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PT Corner:
Helping Kids Learn to Balance
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Editor's Note: This article is directed towards parents. Consider sharing it with the parents and guardians of your students and clients.
[Source: The Inspired Treehouse]
Why is balance important for kids?
Balance is important for so many things kids have to do. Some of them obvious, like walking
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Sensory Corner:
Sensory Sensitivity - A Video
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[Source: The Sensory Spectrum]
Although this video is produced by the National Autistic Society (UK), this video entitled Sensory Sensitivity reflects not only how an Autistic person may experience sensory input but how any sensory sensitive child might.
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School Psych Corner:
Relational Aggression & Why Kids Engage In It
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[Source: Very Well.com via School Psyched, Your School Psychologist[
Relational aggression is an insidious and covert type of bullying that often goes unnoticed by parents and educators. Teens and tweens that engage in relational aggression are able to bully, control and manipulate others all under the radar of adults. In fact, some kids are so skilled at this type of bullying that no one would ever suspect them of hurting others.
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