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July 14, 2017
Issue 22, Volume 10
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter!
News Items:
- Late Teen Years Are Key Period For Bone Growth
- Electronic Devices Help Nonverbal Kids Find Their Voice
- General Anesthetic May Disrupt Brain Development in Children
- Teen ACL Injuries on the Rise
- Brain Response to Stress Different For Those with Bulimia
- Developmental Coordination Disorder and Sensory Processing
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot Job: School-Based Speech-Language Pathologist - Los Angeles, CA
- Hot Jobs: Full and Part-Time Pediatric OTs for Tulsa, OK
- Hot Job! - School Speech-Language Pathologist - SLP - Calumet, MI
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Bean Bag Balance Game
- Pretend Paper Hair Salon for Kids
- Roll a Shape Printable Game
- Silly Sentences Reading Game with Jenga Blocks
Articles and Special Features
- EI Corner: Revisiting the Benefits of a High-Quality Birth-to-Five Program
- Peds Tx Corner: The Diminishing Role of Art in Children's Lives
- Educator's Corner: The Power of Sight Word Fluency
- TBI Corner: Executive Functions - Critical and Vital to Organizing, Prioritizing and Behaviors
- OT Corner: Therapy Students in the Clinic - A Realistic Look
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Late Teen Years Are Key Period For Bone Growth
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[Source: Science Daily]
The late adolescent years are an important period for gaining bone mineral, even after a teenager attains his or her adult height. Scientists analyzing a racially diverse, multicenter sample from a large, federally funded national study say their findings reinforce the importance of diet and physical activities during the late teen years, as a foundation for lifelong health.
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Electronic Devices Help Nonverbal Kids Find Their Voice
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
Selah isn't ready to work yet.
Carrie Kerr asks, "Do you want a drink?"
Selah grabs a bright pink iPad programmed with more than 3,000 words and matching pictures, including a skunk for a fun kid word like "fart." Pronouns in yellow-colored boxes, adjectives in blue, nouns in white, verbs in green with different shades for past tense and other conjugations.
Symbols for drinking water appear on the screen and a girl's version of Siri's voice says "drink water."
UT San Diego]
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General Anesthetic May Disrupt Brain Development in Children
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[Source: Medical News Today]
A study carried out in mice finds that a common general anesthetic called isoflurane significantly interferes with the growth of neurons in the developing brain. These worrying findings back up a raft of earlier studies.
General anesthetics are used on hundreds of thousands of children each year in the United States. But over recent years, some concerns have been raised regarding this. So much so that in April 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of potential risks to developing brains
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Teen ACL Injuries on the Rise
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Among teenage athletes, the rate of ACL tears is rising, with the sharpest increase seen in females aged 13-17 who, over the last 13 years, have experienced a 59 percent increase in the number of required reconstruction procedures, according to a new study published in the JAMA Pediatrics.
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Brain Response to Stress Different For Those with Bulimia
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[Source" Psych Central]
Scientists have discovered that the brains of women with bulimia nervosa react differently to images of food after stressful events than the brains of women without bulimia.
Investigators used magnetic resonance imaging scans to discover that women with bulimia have decreased blood flow in a part of the brain associated with self-reflection, compared with increased blood flow in women without bulimia.
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Developmental Coordination Disorder and Sensory Processing
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[Source: the British Journal of OT via Your Therapy Source]
The British Journal of Occupational Therapy published research on children with developmental coordination disorder and sensory difficulties to examine the co-occurrence of developmental coordination disorders and sensory processing and integration difficulties.
Data was collected by reviewing the records of 93 children who were diagnosed with developmental coordination disorder (ages 5-12) and who were evaluated with the Movement Assessment Battery for Children - 2 and the Sensory Processing Measure.
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We are currently hiring School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists for Los Angeles, California for the SY17/18. With it's supportive environment and mentorship opportunities, this can be a great opportunity for the therapist seeking a first experience in a school setting.
* CF & New Graduate Mentorship Program
* Full Time Positions, 8 hours a day.
* Continuing Education Allowance
* Paid Association Dues and Professional Development & Training
* Comprehensive Benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability
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PediaStaff is actively recruiting for several of our compassionate clients in the Tulsa, OK area. They are currently looking to hire Occupational Therapists with some pediatric experience to work in their modern outpatient clinic settings. You can work part-time to full-time....your choice. You would also have the ability to have flexible hours.
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We have a need for a full-time contract SLP in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for the 2017-2018 school year. Your caseload would range from PreK-12. Typical needs include articulation, phonology, receptive and expressive language, social/pragmatic communication related to autism, fluency and assistive technology for communication.
* Therapist will work with kids from preschool to 12th grade.
* Caseloads are kept around 50, 10 lower than state requirement.
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Bean Bag Balance Game
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[Source: Pink Oatmeal]
Are you looking for a fun game that also promotes balance? You need to try the bean bag balance game. It's super simple and you probably have most things that you need around your home! The bean bag balance game would also work great in physical education or for gross motor stations.
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Pretend Paper Hair Salon!
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[Source: Inner Child Fun]
This pretend paper hair salon could keep the kids happily entertained for hours! During a recent visit to the craft store, Clara (age 8) spotted some foam heads. She had been wanting to create a pretend hair salon for some time, but I have a feeling this may only be the beginning of her crafting journey with these foam heads. She has big plans for these! With some paper, scissors, and a few pieces of craft foam, she was able to give these
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Roll a Shape Printable Game
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[Source: No Time for Flashcards]
I have been working on writing my new printable Build Preschool Thematic Units and
I made this game for my mini unit on shapes. It is a simple game that is targetted at preschoolers to play independently or with a friend. This printable game is quick, it's designed to be one of many activities out during free choice time and is also perfect for quiet time. It can take a little while to roll that last star, but that offers children a lesson in perseverance in a very age appropriate structure.
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Silly Sentences Reading Game with Jenga Blocks
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[Source: Childhood 101]
This DIY reading game is a great resource for beginning or struggling readers. In fact, my 5 year old early reader has been having lots of fun with our set since I made it a few weeks ago. It has been great for developing her recognition of high frequency words, decoding skills and reading fluency. Using the blocks from a Jenga game means it is simple to make and I have included a copy of the list of high frequency, CVC, CVCC, CCVC words (with a couple of high interest word too) I used below. Be sure to read through the instructions for some handy tips and hints for making and playing.
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EI Corner:
Revisiting the Benefits of High-Quality Birth-to-Five
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[Souce: Education Week]
If high-quality preschool is good, high-quality programs that start at birth are even better.
That's the finding of Nobel-prize winning economist James J. Heckman, who has studied the long-term benefits to children of participating in early-childhood programs.
His most recent evaluation is of two similar 70s-era programs, one called the Carolina Abecedarian Project, or ABC, and the Carolina Approach to Responsive Education, or CARE. Children who participated in the programs were tracked until their mid-30s.
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Peds Tx Corner:
The Diminishing Role of Art in Children's Lives
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[Source: The Atlantic]
A wealth of research has shown a strong link between the scribbles of preschoolers and their early stages of written language and reading. Drawing also helps prepare children for success in other subject areas, including explaining and communicating mathematical reasoning, which assists in their comprehension and communication of math concepts.
More generally, extensive evidence suggests that exposure to art in school has long-term academic and social benefits for kids, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. A 2012 study by the United States' National Endowment for the Arts, for example, found that low-income eighth-graders who had lots of exposure to the arts were more likely than their peers with less exposure to earn higher grades and attend college.
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Educator's Corner:
The Power of Sight Word Fluency
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[Source: The Autism Helper]
I know, I know. ANOTHER post about fluency instruction. But you guys - it's just that amazing and important. I am all about setting up a fluency station in your classroom so you can work on increasing vocabulary, math skills, life skills, and of course - literacy! Working on the accuracy and speed that your student can read words will improve reading fluency and as we have been talking about all week - will also improve comprehension.]
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TBI Corner:
Executive Functions - Critical and Vital to Organizing, Prioritizing and Behaviors
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[Source: Lash and Associates]
Edited by Lee E Horton, L.C.A.S, C.C.S.
What happens when a brain injury occurs? How does the injury impact the executive functions? There are many survivors who have provided us insight into the changes, consequences, and struggles.
"Over the last few years I have had many gifts bestowed on me. Yes, some are the kind you can hold in your hand. Others however, are more cerebral and the kind you hold in your heart. Tonight I couldn't find my keys and for an instant I could feel my stomach turn when I remembered last week having left them in the door for hours. It wasn't that I was worried
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OT Corner:
Therapy Students in the Clinic - A Realistic Look
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[The Anonymous OT]
As students are finishing up their final rotations of graduate school and preparing to take their national board exams (AKA a scary, intimidating test that determines if they can actually do what they went to school for...), I thought it would be a good moment to talk about what it means to have a therapy student in your facility.
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