Blog - PediaStaff

Pediatric Occupational Therapy Guest Blog: Homemade Solutions for Attentional Difficulties

November 2, 2010

5 November 2010, ADHD, Article, Newsletter

By: Loren Shlaes, OTR/L Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique You can go a long way towards improving a child’s ability to cope by eliminating toxins from his environment, making sure he eats nutritious food, and gets plenty of sleep and exercise.…...

November 2, 2010

5 November 2010, ADD, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: This is a great activity that demonstrates the “illusion of attention. ” It wasn’t designed to be used with kids but it is really terrific. I would say for 3rd graders and up. According to the authors of this experiment,…...

November 1, 2010

5 November 2010, Bilingualism, Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

Thank you to our friends at Apraxia-Kids/CASANA for the lead on this great story. Please support our contributors and visit The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America website [Source: University of Texas] According to the 2000 census, nearly one-third of…...

November 1, 2010

Autism, Bullying, News, Newsletter, 5 November 2010, School Psych

[Source: Disability Scoop] Bullying on the basis of disability and a slew of other factors is not only wrong, federal officials are reminding educators, but in many cases it’s also against the law. In a letter to schools, colleges and universities sent…...

November 1, 2010

5 November 2010, AAC, Assistive Technology, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: The New York Times] Owen Cain depends on a respirator and struggles to make even the slightest movements — he has had a debilitating motor-neuron disease since infancy. Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but…...

Thanksgiving – Connect the Dots

November 1, 2010

Here is a nice collection of Thanksgiving Connect the Dots and Coloring Pages. on Big Activities.com. Count by’s are by both numbers and letters. ...

November 1, 2010

5 November 2021, Newsletter, OT, SLP

Editor’s Note: The following are some very well done printable worksheets for Thanksgiving that we thought we were idea for speech – language and OT work. [Source: TLS Books] Thanksgiving Fun – card game, dot-to-dot, color by letter, alphabetical order, find…...

October 29, 2010

29 October 2010, Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

By: Alejandro Brice, PhD, CCC-SLP, Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP This month’s feature again comes from a series of observations affecting our bilingual clients. Communication This week I am having my gall bladder removed after receiving a sonogram, CT scan, nuclear EF imaging,…...

October 28, 2010

29 October 2010, Article, Early Intervention, Newsletter, SLP

Stredler Brown, A. (2005, January 18). The ASHA Leader. A basic tenet of family-centered intervention is a commitment to help families—to navigate the early intervention system, to identify resources, to learn new information, and to adopt strategies to use at home with…...

October 28, 2010

By: Melanie Lambert OTR/L A.M. Skeffington, an American optometrist known to some as “the father of behavioral optometry”, believed that vision cannot be separated from the total individual nor from any of the sensory systems because it is integrated into all human…...