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April 10, 2020
Issue 14, Volume 13
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our weekly newsletter coming to you from quarantine! We have retooled it in order to provide all the home-based activities, and COVID-19 related information you need to stay on top of things in this strange time.
News Items:
- New App Allows NICU Families to 'Visit' Baby During COVID-19 Pandemic
- DeVos Weighs Waivers for Special Education. Parents Are Worried
- New Strategies in Special Education as Kids Learn From Home
- Delivery of Pediatric and School-Based Therapy and Special Education via Distance Learning/Teletherapy: Where Do We Stand in the COVID-19 Era?
- In Other Research News
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs -- WE ARE HIRING NOW!
PediaStaff is interviewing now!. For 14 years, our trusted clients have looked to PediaStaff to help them serve special needs children. When schools, clinics and EI providers reopen, they will rely on us more than ever to get services kick-started.
With that in mind, please consider the following (anticipated) opening we are currently looking to fill with a quality therapist like you:
- Hot, New Job! School-Based SLP - Oak Forest, IL
- Hot, New Job! School Psychologist - 2020/21 SY - Wasilla, AK
- Hot, New Job! School-Based OT 2020/21 SY - Kelso, WA
Stay-at-Home Therapy Activities and Resources
- For Teachers and Homeschoolers a Full, FREE Year of Animated Storybooks From Vooks
- Wide Open School - Probably the Best Collection of Homebound Learning Resources We've Seen
- Free 'I Spy' Language Game, For Parents - Perfect for Quarantine
- My COVID-19 Time Capsule: The Activity for Kids That's Literally Breaking the Internet!
- New This Week, Issue #3: Teacher & Therapist Resources for Homebound Families
Articles for School-Based/Pediatric Clinicians and Special Educators
- For Parents and Guardians: Tips for Parents and Caregivers in Uncertain Times
- PT Corner: COVID-19 Physical Activity Guide for Kids
- SpEd Corner: Parents of Kids With Disabilities Worry Quarantine Will Mean Regression
- School Psych Corner: Focusing on Student Well-Being in Times of Crisis
- Autism Corner: How Autism Families Are Coping With The Pandemic
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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App Allows NICU Families to 'Visit' Baby During COVID-19 Pandemic
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
With the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, many hospitals and neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are limiting the number of people who can visit newborn babies to reduce the risk of contamination. At Northwestern Medicine's Prentice Women's Hospital, that means only one parent at a time can be with their newborn in the NICU.
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DeVos Weighs Waivers for Special Education. Parents Are Worried
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[Source: The New York Times]
The $2 trillion coronavirus law could give the education secretary the power to waive special education rules as school districts struggle to teach all their students online.
Tucked away in the $2 trillion coronavirus stabilization bill is a provision
that allows Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to seek congressional approval to waive parts of the federal special education law while schools combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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New Strategies in Special Education as Kids Learn From Home
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[Source: Edutopia]
Around the nation, K-12 schools are frantically trying to adapt to abrupt closures during the coronavirus. But while all teachers are struggling with the new normal, special education teachers in particular are facing unparalleled challenges transitioning both their teaching-and their students and families-to home-based instruction tailored to each student's needs.
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Delivery of Pediatric and School-Based Therapy and Special Education via Distance Learning/Teletherapy: Where Do We Stand in the COVID-19 Era?
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by: Heidi Kay, Partner and CEO of PediaStaff
You are an SLP, OT, PT, School Psychologist, or School-Based Social Worker, following instructions to stay home. The TV and internet are flooded with stories about employees working from home, having meetings on Zoom, and general education teachers nationwide, providing distance and online instruction during their quarantines.
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In Other Research News
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- Survey: Increase in Teen Reports of Anxiety, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts - Psych Central
- Changes in Brain Attention May Underlie Autism -Medical Express
- Spina Bifida Surgery Before Birth Restores Brain Structure - Science Daily
- Study: Parents Should Limit All Screen Media for Pre-K Kids - Psych Central
- Study Probes Interaction of Genetics and Neural Wiring in ADHD - Psych Central
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PediaStaff is interviewing now for anticipated EOY School needs. For 14 years, our trusted clients have looked to PediaStaff to help them serve special needs children. When schools reopen, whether for summer school, or the start of the 2020-21 school year, they will rely on us more than ever to get services kick-started.
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Are you a School Psychologist seeking an experience of a lifetime? Do you enjoy the outdoors, winter sports, a small town community, and an active lifestyle? We are hiring School Psychologists now for Alaska school districts! Take your pick on location as we need several School Psychologists to work full time for the 2020-21 school year in the vicinity of Anchorage, AK and beyond.
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Want to live and work close to Vancouver? PediaStaff needs a great Occupational Therapist to work full-time hours for the 2020-2021 school year with a district in the beautiful Longview area. This opportunity starts late August/early September. You will work with preschool through high school aged students, but we will try to place you according to your preference.
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For Teachers and Homeschoolers a Full, FREE Year of Animated Storybooks From Vooks
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Vooks is offering their animated storybook platform free to teachers and homeschoolers for a year.
A $4.99 per month value, Vooks is an ad-free platform that incorporates important characteristics of an effective
reading aloud storytime by providing a model of fluent, expressive narration, with
purposeful pacing helping to maintain attention in a positive way that promotes a love of reading and a lifelong impact.The ad-free platform features a
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Wide Open School - Probably the Best Collection of Homebound Learning Resources We've Seen
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[Source: Tech Crunch]
Nearly 300 million kids are missing school worldwide because of the coronavirus outbreak, including some 54 million in the U.S. alone. That's left parents scrambling for resources to help continue their children's education, often while also working from home themselves - an almost insurmountable challenge. Today, the nonprofit media organization Common Sense is launching a site to help parents. Called Wide Open School, it combines in one place the best educational resources for publishers, nonprofits and education companies.
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Free 'I Spy' Language Game, For Parents - Perfect for Quarantine
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[Source: The Dabbling Speechie]
With school closures happening around the nation it is extremely stressful for parents to educate their children at home. One way you can help your children work on language at home is by playing games. This 'I Spy' language game is engaging because it allows your child to move around and there are a lot of ways you can work on your child's speech and language goals.
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My COVID-19 Time Capsule: The Activity for Kids That's Literally Breaking the Internet!
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Editor's Note: Everyone is going crazy about this terrific free printable from Long Creations. So creative, and the kids will LOVE it!
[Source: Long Creations]
We are all living through history right now and I thought a "time capsule" would be an amazing way to document this experience to look back on, these worksheets were created by me for my family but I wanted to share with all my fans!
Simply download the 11 page PDF, print as many copies as you wish and work with your child to fill in the sheets!
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NEW! Issue #3: Teacher & Therapist Resources for Homebound Families
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For over 14 years, PediaStaff has brought you resources so that you may be your students' best advocates. Now, with these sudden changes in our lives, we are doubling down on that promise to keep you up to speed with all the teaching/therapy ideas, resources and news you need.
Each week, this e-mailer will feature something new for all to consider as we collaborate to provide students with some consistency during this unusual time. Remember, we are all in this together!
Please feel free to forward this resource to other parents, therapists and educators that you think could use a little bit of inspiration.
Here are this week's featured boards and pins for you!
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For Parents and Guardians: Tips for All in Uncertain Times
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Editor's Note: These excellent tips were compiled by the Positive Parenting Program and would be an excellent resource to send to the parents and guardians of the children you serve.
[Source: Triple P]
We're in a complicated and uncertain time, and we understand that right now, more than ever, parents and families need support. We're working to set up ways to safely deliver the various kinds of Triple P - Positive Parenting Program that would normally happen face-to-face (either individually or in small groups), including Teen and Stepping Stones. In the meantime, you can find the tips below useful.
1. REASSURE YOUR CHILDREN THAT YOUR FAMILY IS YOUR TOP PRIORITY.
Say something like "I'm your parent, it's my job to keep you safe and we are doing everything we can."
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PT Corner: COVID-19 Physical Activity Guide for Kids
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[Source: The College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University]
by Dr. Sam Elliott
COVID-19 has confined families to their home with children struggling to fill the void left by regular sporting activities and outside play, but parents can take simple steps to maintain their physical activity.
With local parks and playgrounds banned from public use, parents face a unique challenge in how they assist children's sport-oriented progress within the confines of a small backyard or apartments in Sydney and Melbourne.
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SpEd Corner: Parents of Kids With Disabilities Worry Quarantine Will Mean Regression
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[Source: Hechinger Report]
It was a Monday morning at breakfast, 10 days into the quarantine, that JoAnna Van Brusselen first noticed the claw.
Her oldest daughter, Iolani Azul, 11, was sitting at the kitchen table in their house in San Francisco, her right hand curled up against her stomach. It reminded Van Brusselen of how her daughter had carried herself when she was an infant, before years of schooling, occupational
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School Psych Corner:
Focusing on Student Well-Being in Times of Crisis
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[Source: Edutopia]
As schools across the country remain closed, students with trauma, difficult home situations, and anxiety need support now more than ever. The abrupt change can trigger stress and fear in students that can leave mental scars.
A framework of safety is critical for students' brains and can be the first phase of healing for those experiencing trauma. Help students feel safe through the three Cs: communication, consistency, and control.
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Autism Corner: How Autism Families Are Coping With The Pandemic
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Editor's Note: When you continue to PR Newswire, make sure you click on the Infographic. Only part of it is visible on their page.
[Source: PR Newswire]
When COVID-19 arrived in
New York, Dr.
Wendy Chung, principal investigator of the SPARK study and a physician in
New York City, knew that this was a singular moment in time. She wanted to understand how the pandemic was affecting families with autism across the country - in real time - and then share what she found with the community. She sent SPARK study participants a quick but important survey. SPARK, the largest study of autism families in
the United States, was designed to allow for this kind of rapid data collection and sharing of information.
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