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September 14,, 2018
Issue 36, Volume 11
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our Newsletter!
News Items:
- Toddlers Prefer Winners-But Avoid Those Who Win By Force
- Autism Blood Test May Be Available This Year
- World Suicide Prevention Day: Detecting Depression in Teens
- Brainwaves Synchronize to the Speed of Talking, Influencing the Way we Hear Words
- New Research Shows How We Turn on and off Languages
- Similar Changes in the Brains of Patients with ADHD and Emotional Instability
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! Adaptive Physical Education Teacher - APE
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric SLP - John's Creek, GA
- Hot, New Job! School-Based OT - Portland, OR
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Game Review: Tricky Hands
- Fall Art Projects - Fold Over Leaf Painting
- 4 September Books for Speech & Language Therapy
- Pinterest Search of the Week! Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Articles and Special Features
- School Therapy Corner: 8 Suggestions for IEP Reviews at the Start of the School Year
- School Psych Corner: September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day
- Peds Tx Corner: Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Where Do We Go From Here?
- SLP Corner: More on Breathing
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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Toddlers Prefer Winners-But Avoid Those Who Win By Force
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[Source: Medical News Today]
They have only just learned to walk and talk-and have only just started to develop social relationships with children of their own age. Yet, these tiny toddlers already use cues of social status to decide which people they prefer or would rather avoid. This has just been established by researchers from Aarhus BSS and the University of California, Irvine, through experiments carried out on toddlers aged 21 to 31 months.
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Autism Blood Test May Be Available This Year
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
A company that says its findings will "revolutionize" the way autism spectrum disorder is diagnosed and treated is getting a boost from a scientific publication.
Research conducted by Madison-based NeuroPointDX in collaboration with the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis shows subtle differences in blood can identify some children as young as 18 months with autism spectrum disorder.
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. According to
WHO 2014 Mental Health Atlas, suicide rates in Southeast Asia, which includes Indonesia, are the highest in the world, reaching 20 per 100,000 people annually. The global suicide rate is estimated to be 10.5 per 100,000 people.
In Indonesia, according to the country's 2013 Basic Health Research
(Riskesdas) 6% of the Indonesian adult population has mental-emotional disorders, such as mood disorders, anxiety, psychotic, and substance use.
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Brainwaves Sync to the Speed of Talking, Influencing the Way we Hear Words
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[Source: Science Daily]
Have you ever found yourself finishing someone else's sentences, even though you don't really know them that well? Fortunately, the ability to predict what someone is going to say next isn't the preserve of turtledoves or those in long-term relationships. Our brain processes all kinds of information to estimate what's going to come next, and the speed at which the speaker is talking, or speech rate, plays an important role.
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New Research Shows How We Turn on and off Languages
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[Source: Science Daily]
A team of researchers has uncovered the distinct computations that occur when we switch between different languages, a finding that provides new insights into the nature of bilingualism.
"A remarkable feature of multilingual individuals is their ability to quickly and accurately switch back and forth between their
different languages
," explains Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, a
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Similar Changes in the Brains of Patients with ADHD and Emotional Instability
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[Source: Science Daily]
In both ADHD and emotional instability disorders (e.g. borderline and antisocial personality disorder as well as conduct disorder in children), the brain exhibits similar changes in overlapping areas, meaning that the two types of conditions should be seen as related and attention should be paid to both during diagnosis.
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PediaStaff is hiring! School-Based Special Education Teacher, Adapted Physical Education APE for SY18/19 in Monterey. Central California is home to beautiful destinations such as Carmel-By-the-Sea, the Monterey Zoo, and flourishing vineyards.
* This APE position will cover several grades/ages
* Full-time position 7 hours per day, Monday-Friday
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Did you know that PediaStaff fills part-time positions too?
Are you a Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist looking for a part-time position working in a clinic in one of the best cities to live in the U.S.? Johns Creek, GA is a northeastern suburb of Atlanta and In 2017 Johns Creek ranked third on the USA Today list of "50 best cities to live in."
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Are you an OT looking for a school-based assignment? We are seeking a full-time Pediatric Occupational Therapist for a school-based position from now until mid-June 2019.
* This Occupational Therapist position serves Special Education students at a local school in east Portland
* Occupational Therapist will work Monday through Friday; 37.5 hours per week; Now until mid-June
* This setting serves students with significant medical and/or communication needs, in conjunction with behavioral needs
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[Source: The Playful Otter]
Work on spatial relations/position in space, visual discrimination, visualization, visual closure, visual memory, figure-ground, eye-hand coordination, finger isolation, precise fine motor control, manual dexterity, coordinated use of both hands, executive functions, play exploration and participation
In the box: 50 small bands, 50 challenge cards
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[Source: No Time for Flash Cards]
This is one of my favorite fall art projects, and the reason I am sharing it is that I will be doing this with my classroom of 2 and 3-year-olds in the coming weeks. This fall leaf painting activity is super simple, and there really is no way to do anything wrong. Children interested in the process of making the painting symmetrical by folding it over will love how that works but children too young or simply not interested yet can still enjoy painting
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4 September Books for Speech & Language Therapy
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[Source; Crazy Speech World]
September has snuck up on me, how about you? I know most of us are back to work by now, so I thought I would share the books I'm planning to use this month! My choices are based on what's going on in September: Labor Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, beginning of the fall season, and everyone being sick because of back to school germs
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Pinterest Search of the Week! Talk Like a Pirate Day
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[Source; Crazy Speech World]
September has snuck up on me, how about you? I know most of us are back to work by now, so I thought I would share the books I'm planning to use this month! My choices are based on what's going on in September: Labor Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, beginning of the fall season, and everyone being sick because of back to school germs
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School Tx Corner:
8 Suggestions for IEP Reviews at the Start of the Year
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[Source: Your Therapy Source]
Do you do IEP reviews at the start of the school year? As the new school year starts, it is important for related service providers, teachers, parents and students to review the IEP. Reviewing IEP for multiple students can be very time consuming therefore in order to be productive focus on the important parts of the IEP. Here are suggestions for IEP reviews at the start of the school year. Keep in mind the same tips can be applied to 504 Accommodation Plans.
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School Psych Corner:
September10th is World Suicide Prevention Day
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[Source: Newsweek]
World Suicide Prevention Day, an event taking place under the theme "Working Together to Prevent Suicide," is being supported Monday by campaigners, politicians and celebs.
Launched in 2003 by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO), the date of September 10 is annually used to raise awareness surrounding the conditions that lead to 800,000 deaths every year.
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Peds Tx Corner"
Pediatric TBI - Where Do We Go From Here?
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Editor's Note: September is Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month. This is just one of the great resources you can find on Brainline.org. Interestingly enough, it was originally written for the ASHA Leader.
by Roberta DePompei, The ASHA Leader
"She is a beautiful 4-year-old. She was in the hospital for several months and has a severe brain injury. She can't speak and has difficulty maintaining balance for sitting. She is more like a 2-year-old than a 4-year-old. We know there are many challenges before us in getting all the services she will need throughout her life."
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SLP Corner:
More on Breathing
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Source: Speech Techie]
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Breathing is an important tool that SLPs can employ in a variety of client populations. For our students with self-regulation difficulties, having tools they can use anywhere without disruption of the current situation they are in can be very important (see
Zones). For us, too- our jobs can be stressful, whether it is a difficult treatment situation, a contentious IEP meeting, or just going back to work after the summer (I AM STILL NOT REALLY READY)...we need tools.
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