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Food Insecurity Has Lasting Impacts on the Brains and Behavior of Mice

September 19, 2022

23 September 2022, News, Newsletter, OT, School Psych, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] While food insecurity is a problem for a growing segment of the U.S. population — made even worse by the coronavirus pandemic — few studies have looked at the effect that feast or famine has on the developing brain…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, News, Newsletter, OT, School Psych, SLP, Special Education

[Source: Variety] CBS is expanding its representation and inclusion programs to launch a new “CBS Performers with Disabilities Talent Initiative.” The plan, which starts with the upcoming 2022-2023 TV season, is to make sure the Eye network’s programming includes “meaningful representation and…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, News, Newsletter, OT, School Psych, SLP

[Source: Disability Scoop] A staple of children’s television is introducing its first-ever character with autism, a series regular who will be voiced by an actor who’s on the spectrum himself. Bruno, a brake car with autism, will join the world of “Thomas…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, News, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] PORTLAND, Maine — Portland school officials are working on a plan to redeploy education technicians in hopes of avoiding the need to switch to four-day school weeks for some of the district’s 1,000 special education students. But the number…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Science Daily] For the first time, neuroscientists from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (currently in the process of being established) have revealed the precise connections between sensory neurons inside the retina and the superior…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, News, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: Medical X-Press] Children learn on their own through observation and experimentation. They also learn from what other people tell them, especially adults and authority figures like their parents and teachers. When children learn something surprising, they seek out additional information by…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, ADHD, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Science Daily] Children of women with gestational diabetes and obesity may be twice as likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to those whose mothers did not have obesity, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Infections in pregnant women have been linked to an increased risk of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism, in the child later in life. But it does not seem to be the infections themselves that cause autism, researchers from Karolinska…...

September 15, 2022

16 September 2022, Jobs, Newsletter, OT

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or text us at 662-524-9099 or Apply HERE!! Multiple opportunities to work full or part-time in a supportive school-based environment. Opportunities are available in the following areas: * Wayne, IL 5 Day, 35 hours per week elementary * Streamwood…...

September 14, 2022

16 September 2022, Job, SLP

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or text us at 662-524-9099 or Apply HERE!! New opportunity for a Speech-Language Pathologist to work full-time in a thriving pediatric outpatient clinic. *You’ll be covering a maternity leave for about 12 weeks beginning mid to end of October…...