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Ocotber 25, 2019
Issue 31, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday!
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter.
News Items:
- Substantial Research Supports the Benefits of Coordination Exercise for Kids
- Study Exposes 'Significant Shortcomings' In Autism Screening
- No Link Found Between Youth Contact Sports and Cognitive, Mental Health Problems
- Runway Model With Down Syndrome Is An Inspiration To The World
- Inflammation and Autism - an Important Piece of the Puzzle
- Depression Rates not Budging for Lesbian and Gay Teens
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! School-Based Occupational Therapist - Genoa, IL
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric SLP - Reisterstown, MD
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric Occupational Therapist - Beverly Hills, CA
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- 20+ Super Cute Batty Crafts, Snacks, and Activities for Halloween
- Easy Halloween Shaving Cream Sensory Activity
- Halloween Bat Dice Drawing
- Halloween Speech Lesson of the Week: Where's My Mummy?
Articles and Special Features
- OT/PT Activity of the Week: Spider Web Scavenger Hunt for Halloween
- SLP Corner: 7 Ways to Feel More Comfortable Talking About Stuttering to Others
- EI Corner: High Quality EI for Autism Quickly Results in Cost Savings
- Art Therapy Corner: Social Stories and Art Therapy
- Autism Corner: 9 Ways Structured Work Systems Help You and Your Students
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Research Supports the Benefits of Coordination Exercise for Kids
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Did you know that coordination exercises for kids provide so many benefits for children especially at school? Coordination exercises include physical activity where children practice visual motor skills and/or bilateral skills where they use both sides of the body together. These types of skills are very important when it comes to completing everyday skills such as getting dressed, eating, running, playtime and participating in sports.
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Study Exposes 'Significant Shortcomings' In Autism Screening
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
The primary method that pediatricians use to identify children with autism is missing more kids with the developmental disorder than it catches, new research suggests.
Less than 40 percent of children later diagnosed with autism screened positive on what's known as the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers with Follow-Up, or M-CHAT/F, when they were assessed as youngsters.
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No Link Found Between Youth Contact Sports and Cognitive, Mental Health Problems
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[Source: Medical X Press]
Adolescents who play contact sports, including football, are no more likely to experience cognitive impairment, depression or suicidal thoughts in early adulthood than their peers, suggests a new University of Colorado Boulder study of nearly 11,000 youth followed for 14 years.
The study, published this month in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, also found that those who play sports are less likely to suffer from
mental health issues by their late 20s to early 30s.
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Runway Model With Down Syndrome Is An Inspiration To The World
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[Source: theinfo.me]
The fashion industry is rapidly changing and how this change can be seen not only in dresses but also in models. Earlier, the grounded idea was that only tall, slim and fair people can be models. But now this idea has constantly been challenged. If anyone said disabled people can be models a few decades ago, the idea would be laughed at. Yet, now there is much news about models with Down syndrome taking the lead in the fashion industry and this seem a healthy feature that shows the positive development of people's thoughts.
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Inflammation and Autism - an Important Piece of the Puzzle
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Autism spectrum disorder has neither a distinct pathogenesis nor pharmaceutical treatment, yet evidence continues to mount demonstrating immune dysfunction and inflammation in specific brain regions of children diagnosed with the neurodevelopmental condition.
A collaborative group of researchers in Boston and Italy has discovered that pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines apparently play roles in autism spectrum disorder, ASD. The team
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Depression Rates not Budging for Lesbian and Gay Teens
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While fewer straight teens suffer depression than did two decades ago, the same cannot be said for lesbian, gay and bisexual teens.
For those teens, depression risk remains much higher than among their straight peers, new research shows, and it is not following a similar downward trend.
Each year between 1999 and 2017, Massachusetts-based teens reported on struggles with sustained bouts of depressed moods, such as sadness or hopelessness.
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New full-time opportunity for an Occupational Therapist in the quad city area. Seeking an organized and energetic Occupational Therapist to work with kids in a therapeutic day school setting in Genoa, IL.
* Full time and part time applicants will be considered
* Hours are 7:30-3:30 M-F
* School serves kids ages 3-21 years old
* A multi-disciplinary team develops IEP goals based on data collection through formal and informal assessment
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Want to work in a dynamic team environment? We have a need for a great pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist to work in a clinic north of Baltimore. The clinic is about 25 minutes northwest of Baltimore, a terrific location for proximity to Baltimore without the traffic. This is a full-time and salaried opportunity.
* Speech-Language Pathologist will work with a multidisciplinary team treating kids.
* We ideally need someone for full-time hours
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What's not to love about Beverly Hills? This home to the rich and famous is among the most glamorous and famous cities in the world. If you are a pediatric Occupational Therapist we invite you to join this innovative outpatient clinic in the heart of Beverly Hills. From hopeful celebrity spottings and people watching, to window shopping at the most exclusive boutiques in the world on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills is sure to have something for you.
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20+ Super Cute Batty Crafts, Snacks, and Activities for Halloween
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[Source: Hands On As We Grow]
Yes, bats! Have fun learning about those cute (okay, maybe creepy) fluffy mammals that fly through the air with these batty crafts, snacks, and activities.
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Easy Halloween Shaving Cream Sensory Activity
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[Source: Hands on As We Grow]
I love a good sensory activity! Halloween is a great time of year to get a little messy, too.
This fun Halloween shaving cream sensory activity is the perfect combo of messy fun and holiday spirit!
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Halloween Bat Dice Drawing
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Here is a simple game that requires paper, pencil and one die. Player one rolls a die. To start your drawing you must roll a #1. When you roll the #1, you can draw the first item. Next player rolls and again must roll a #1 to start. If you do not roll a #1 your turn is over. Continue taking turns but now each time you roll you can draw the corresponding picture with the number. Once you roll the numbers 2-6 your drawing will be complete. The first player to complete the drawing is the winner! For this dice drawing game, the children can practice drawing a Halloween bat.
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Halloween Bat Dice Drawing
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Here is a simple game that requires paper, pencil and one die. Player one rolls a die. To start your drawing you must roll a #1. When you roll the #1, you can draw the first item. Next player rolls and again must roll a #1 to start. If you do not roll a #1 your turn is over. Continue taking turns but now each time you roll you can draw the corresponding picture with the number. Once you roll the numbers 2-6 your drawing will be complete. The first player to complete the drawing is the winner! For this dice drawing game, the children can practice drawing a Halloween bat.
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| Halloween Speech Lesson of the Week: Where's My Mummy? |
by Kristin Cummings, M.S. CCC-SLP
I love fall and I love Halloween! Even more, I love the story, Where's My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi. I use this book every October with my speech and language students. This is an adorable, not so scary, story of little baby mummy that does not want to go to bed. Instead, he plays "hide and shriek" and runs into some Halloween creatures along the way.
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OT/PT Corner:
Spider Web Scavenger Hunt for Halloween
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[Source: Hands on As We Grow]
With Halloween only days away, my kids are asking me every day how much longer until Halloween. We've been doing lots of fun activities around Halloween themes.
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SLP Corner:
7 Ways to Feel More Comfortable Talking About Stuttering to Others
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Editor's Note: Today is the International Stuttering Awareness Day. Please enjoy this article was written by a student for students. It would be a great one to share with your kiddos who stutter.
[Source: American Institute for Stuttering]
Hi my name is MaKenna and I am 12 years old. Telling people about my stuttering was probably the hardest thing for me. Over the summer, I went to the AIS Teen Intensive Week, and we had to do some pretty challenging things that helped me overcome my fear
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EI Corner:
High Quality EI for Autism Quickly Results in Cost Savings
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[Source: Science Daily]
One in every 68 children in the United States has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental disorder that results in difficulty socializing and communicating needs and desires, and often is accompanied by restricted interests or activities. Research has shown that early intervention leads to better outcomes for children on the spectrum. But the cost of early intervention is high - ranging from $40,000 to $80,000 per year for intensive early intervention - and health care insurers, state and local early intervention programs often are reluctant to pay for it, thereby making it difficult for families of children with ASD to obtain these expensive services.
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Art Therapy Corner:
Social Stories & Art Therapy Results in Cost Savings
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[Source: Colors of Play]
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other developmental issues use Social Stories in order to better understand the nuances of interpersonal communication. Originally designed in 1991 by Carol Gray, Social Stories model appropriate social interaction by describing a situation with appropriate social cues, others perception, and a suggested response relevant to the situation.
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Autism Corner:
9 Ways Structured Work Systems Help You and Your Students
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[Source: Autism Classroom News and Resources]
If you have followed this blog for any time, you know I'm pretty student-centered. If you've ever asked me a question, you know my answer is often, "It depends on the student." So, not surprisingly, I'm going to start with the benefits to the student.
I talked about some of these in the last post, but this list is going to go just a bit farther in terms of what the student LEARNS from independent work, in addition to independence.
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