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December 20, 2019
Issue 37, Volume 12
It's All About the Choices!
Greetings and Happy Friday
Please enjoy our current newsletter!
News Items:
- Higher Levels of Emotional Intelligence Linked to Better Grades and Test Scores
- Pediatricians Get New Guidance On Autism
- Teen With Asperger's Named Time Person Of The Year
- Hearsay Pays a Key Role in How Children Perceive Others, New Study Finds
- Brain Differences Detected in Children With Depressed Parents
- How the Brain Detects the Rhythms of Speech
PediaStaff News and Hot Jobs
- Hot, New Job! School SLP - Maple Valley, WA
- Hot, New Job! Pediatric Home Health PT - Austin, TX
- Hot, New Job! School Social Worker K-5 - Elgin, IL
Therapy Activities, Tips and Resources
- Christmas Pictures Using Duplo Blocks
- Christmas Worksheets Great for Speech and Language
- December Read Alouds for Speech Therapy
- Fine Motor Activity of the Week: Lego-Stamped Gift Wrap
Articles and Special Features
- OT Corner: 30 Sensory Stocking Stuffers / Hanukkah Gifts for Special Needs
- SLP Corner: Speech and Language Activity for Kwanzaa
- Pediatric Therapy Corner: What Teachers Should Know About Dysgraphia
- School Psychology Corner: A 'Thank You Letter' to Families Affected by Autism
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Heidi Kay and the PediaStaff Team
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Higher Levels of Emotional Intelligence Linked to Better Grades, Test Scores
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Source: Science Daily]
Students who are better able to understand and manage their emotions effectively, a skill known as emotional intelligence, do better at school than their less skilled peers, as measured by grades and standardized test scores, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
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Pediatricians Get New Guidance On Autism
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
For the first time in over a decade, the nation's pediatricians are getting updated clinical recommendations on treating children with autism.
A report issued Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics "reflects significant changes in the field" since recommendations were last published in 2007, the group said.
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Teen With Asperger's Named Time Person Of The Year
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[Source: Disability Scoop]
NEW YORK - She inspired a movement - and now she's the youngest ever Time Person of the Year.
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish 16-year-old activist who emerged as the face of the fight against climate change and motivated people around the world to join the crusade, was announced Wednesday as the recipient of the magazine's annual honor.
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Hearsay Pays a Key Role in How Children Perceive Others, New Study Finds
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
Hearsay plays a key role in how children perceive people outside their circle, even though they may have no other information or evidence about these people, according to Vanderbilt research published in Child Development.
Jonathan D. Lane, assistant professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development, is lead investigator of an innovative study that involved 150 children ages 4-9. He and his team, including graduate student Emily Conder, measured the impact of negative messages provided
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Brain Differences Detected in Children With Depressed Parents
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[Source: Medical X-Press]
The largest brain imaging study of children ever conducted in the United States has revealed structural differences in the brains of those whose parents have depression.
Depression is a common and debilitating mental health condition that typically arises during adolescence. While the causes of depression are complex, having a parent with depression is one of the biggest known risk factors. Studies have consistently shown that adolescent children of parents with depression are two to three times more likely to develop depression than those with no parental history of depression. However, the brain mechanisms that underlie this familial risk are unclear.
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How the Brain Detects the Rhythms of Speech
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[Source: Science Daily]
Neuroscientists have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first time a neural basis for the fundamental atoms of language and insights into our perception of the rhythmic poetry of speech.
For decades, speech neuroscientists have looked for evidence that neurons in auditory brain areas use fluctuations in speech volume to identify the beginnings and ends of syllables - like a lin-guis-tics pro-fes-sor di-a-gram-ming a sen-tence. So far, these efforts have met with little luck.
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PediaStaff has a need for a full-time Speech-Language Pathologist in the Maple Valley area for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. This is an elementary-level position with caseload numbers around 45. New graduate candidates can be considered if they have strong school fieldwork experience.
* beautiful location!
* You will work with elementary-aged students
* Come join a wonderful team environment
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Ready to start a rewarding new position? We have a brand new opportunity for a pediatric PT to serve a 100% home health population in desirable Austin, TX. Caseload can be catered to your location preferences. As a Physical Therapist you'll get to spend time with your patients, ages 3-21, in their homes to evaluate and treat various types of delays and disorders.
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Opportunity for a School Social Worker, full-time position for a two-month leave, this position could lead to a longer contract if desired.
* Position begins in January and runs for two months
* Elementary grades
* Full-time hours
* School Social Worker will enjoy great pay on this contract assignment
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Christmas Pictures Using Duplo Blocks
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[Source: Teaching Mama.org]
Do your kids like Lego Duplo blocks? My 3-year-old LOVES them! They are perfect for his little hands to manipulate and build things with. While he was playing with them the other day, I came up with an activity for them for Christmas! I created Christmas pictures for him to create using Duplo blocks. He LOVED it!!
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Christmas Worksheets Great for Speech and Language
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Looking for good Christmas themed worksheets to do with your kiddos this month? Please take a look at the following sites, submitted to us by @speechreka on Twitter.
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December Read Alouds for Speech Therapy
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[Source: Crazy Speech World]
December doesn't have enough school days for me to use all of the books I want to use! There are so many great read alouds to use this month, but I only chose 4 to share with you today. I tried to vary the themes, I don't want to do all Christmas stuff this month because I have students that don't celebrate, so I went with one Christmas, a couple of winter, and gingerbread!
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Fine Motor Activity of the Week: LEGO-Stamped Gift Wrap
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Here is a great idea that is perfect for Mother's Day, Christmas, Birthdays and more!
[Source: I Can Teach My Child]
We're participating in
LEGO week with several of our blogging friends! This weekend our boys were invited to our neighbor's birthday party and they gave him a LEGO set, so we thought it was only fitting that we created some LEGO-stamped gift wrap!
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Sensory Corner:
30 Sensory Stocking Stuffers / Hanukkah Gifts for Kids with Special Needs
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[Source: The Sensory Spectrum]
In
my parent Facebook Group, Voices of SPD, several parents were asking for recommendations for Christmas stocking stuffers. The problem is, there are hundreds of great sensory stocking stuffers out there! But I know how tough it can be to whittle down the list and choose.
While sensory kids have different sensory needs, here is a broad range of wonderful sensory stocking stuffers for kids with Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism, ADHD and Special Needs.
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SLP Corner:
Speech and Language Activity for Kwanzaa
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Thank You, Liz Gretz for answering our "challenge" to come up with culturally diverse therapy activities!
Heidi Kay over at PediaStaff, challenged some bloggers to create therapy activities related to Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. While the activity I came up with is pretty simple in nature, it was a really great motivator. These chain links can be used in a couple different ways.
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Peds Therapy Corner:
What Teachers Should Know About Dysgraphia
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[Source: Edutopia]
Jeremiah is a student in my second-grade intervention classroom. He's verbally expressive, full of positive energy, and eager to please. He's been sent to me because benchmark assessments reveal he's below grade level in reading.
Once he's in my classroom, a more pressing issue comes to light. If Jeremiah is slightly below grade level in reading, he is significantly below it in writing. He's nearly 8 years old, and his letters are not uniform, his spelling is inaccurate, and written tasks are laborious for him. I also note the social-emotional effects when he's writing: This energetic, social boy melts into a quiet anxiety, twisting his hair and not making eye contact.
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School Psych Corner:
A 'Thank You Letter' to Families Affected by Autism
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Jeremiah is a student in my second-grade intervention classroom. He's verbally expressive, full of positive energy, and eager to please. He's been sent to me because benchmark assessments reveal he's below grade level in reading.
Once he's in my classroom, a more pressing issue comes to light. If Jeremiah is slightly below grade level in reading, he is significantly below it in writing. He's nearly 8 years old, and his letters are not uniform, his spelling is inaccurate, and written tasks are laborious for him. I also note the social-emotional effects when he's writing: This energetic, social boy melts into a quiet anxiety, twisting his hair and not making eye contact.
Read the Rest of this Article Through a Link on our Blog
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