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OT Corner: Why Is Body Awareness Important?

September 26, 2018

28 September 2018, Article, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Body awareness is the ability to recognize where your body is in space. Your muscles and joints send your brain information about your body and how it moves. You may wonder why is body awareness important? Body awareness…...

September 26, 2018

28 September 2018, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Newly published research — led by Rockefeller University in New York City, NY — reveals that the protein astrotactin 2 (ASTN2) can traffick receptors away from neurons’ surfaces and prevent them from accumulating there. Connections between neurons are…...

Apple Tree Fine Motor Activity

September 25, 2018

28 September 2018, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source Teaching Mama Fall is here! I love fall for so many reasons. For one, there are so many things you can do with apples! I have a ton of apple ideas on my site, but here’s a quick apple tree fine motor activity.…...

PTC Corner: How to Teach Schedule Use

September 25, 2018

[Source: The Autism Helper] Creating student schedules are a lot of work. You need to create a schedule, select the right type of schedule for each student, make the schedules, laminate, velcro, etc. Once you schedules are prepped and ready to go, the real work begins.…...

September 25, 2018

28 September 2018, Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Science Daily] It is generally accepted that precise motor control in our daily life depends on acquisition of an internal model. One motor learning for an internal model is necessary for execution of precise movements in our daily life. There are…...

September 25, 2018

[Source: Upbility] According to scientific research, children acquire decoding and reading comprehension skills at the same time, but each skill develops independently of the other. Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) usually develop decoding skills, but have difficulty with reading comprehension. They…...

September 25, 2018

28 September 2018, Article, Autism, Newsletter, Sensory Processing, SPD

[Source: Best Practice Autism] Unusual sensory responses (i.e., sensory over-responsivity, sensory under-responsivity, and sensory seeking) are relatively common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Sensory issues are now included in the DSM-5 ASD symptom criteria for restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior,…...

September 24, 2018

28 September 2018, News, Newsletter, Special Education

[Source: Disability Scoop] Thousands of additional children will soon be eligible for special education services after state officials eliminated an illegal cap that artificially tamped down Texas special education rolls for a decade. But even if the state fully funds the estimated…...

September 24, 2018

28 September 2018, Down Syndrome, New, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] Joey Towell entered second grade at Richfield Elementary School prepared. A week before school started, he and his mom, Jen Towell, gave his teachers a letter to distribute to all his classmates so they could get to know him…...

September 24, 2018

28 September 2018, ADD, ADHD, Attention, News, Newsletter, OT, School Psych

[Source: Association for Psychological Science] Maps, number lines, shapes, artwork, and other materials tend to cover elementary classroom walls. However, too much of a good thing may end up disrupting attention and learning in young children, according to research published in Psychological Science, a…...