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Autism Corner: Personality Types in Asperger’s: Fixated, Disruptive, Approach and Avoidant

June 29, 2021

2 July 2021, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: My Aspergers Child] Fixated Personality–The fixated personality type can be characterized by a preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and the need to control one’s environment (e.g., to have things in a particular order). compulsion to make lists and/or schedules feelings of excessive…...

SLP Corner: Social Dough

June 29, 2021

2 July 2021, Autism, Newsletter, SLP, Social Skills

by Cindy Meester, MS CCC-SLP “E” is a first grader in one of our Autism classrooms. She has a lot of great skills but of course social peer relationships can be difficult. I paired her with “J” from her mainstream classroom. It…...

June 29, 2021

2 July 2021, ADHD, Article, Newsletter, OT

Editor’s Note: I realized it has been a VERY long time since we posted the most popular article on our blog of all-time, Twenty-Two Reasons Why a Child Can’t Sit Still. Thank You, Loren Shlaes. This article is invaluable and only gets…...

Dinosaur Proprioception Activities

June 29, 2021

2 July 2021, Newsletter, OT, Proprioreception

[Source: The OT Toolbox] This dinosaur brain break activity is a set of free proprioception activities that provides heavy work with a dinosaur theme, making movement and proprioceptive input a fun way to address dinosaur -sized needs. Whether you are looking for…...

Free Printable Dinosaur Memory Game

June 29, 2021

2 July 2021, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Itsy Bitsy Fun] Match up the dinosaurs! I’ve got a new free printable memory card game for you and this time it’s dinosaurs! RAAWR! I’m using the same size for all my memory game printables so you can mix and match…...

Sensory Dinosaur Dig Activity for Kids

June 29, 2021

2 July 2021, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Fireflies and Mud Pies] Learn how to make a DIY Dinosaur Dig sensory bin for your pint-sized paleontologist! It’s an easy and fun way for kids to learn about dinosaurs through play. This sensory activity is so simple to set up! All you…...

June 29, 2021

2 July 2021, News, Newsletter, TBI, TBI

Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is particularly prevalent in toddlers; they’re more likely to be injured because they have a lower sense of danger and are still developing physically. But parents and clinicians have trouble detecting symptoms of trauma, given the toddler’s…...

June 29, 2021

2 Juy 2021, News, Newsletter, School Psych, Stress

[Source: Science Daily] Research shows that children from lower-income backgrounds and those who go through greater adverse childhood experiences get their first permanent molars sooner. The findings align with a broader pattern of accelerated development often seen under conditions of early-life stress.…...

June 28, 2021

2 July 2021, Bilingual, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] A new study in U.S.-born children from Spanish-speaking families finds that minority language exposure does not threaten the acquisition of English by children in the U.S. and that there is no trade-off between English and Spanish. Rather, children reliably…...

June 28, 2021

2 July 2021, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] New research shows that the early production of beat gestures with the hands (i.e., gestures normally associated with emphasis that do not represent the semantic content of speech) by infants between 14 and 58 months of age in natural…...