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Bilingualism Corner: Evaluating Bilingual Children – Best Practices

January 18, 2018

19 January 2018, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Bilinguistics] Evaluating bilingual children is difficult enough as it is. Sometimes the process is made worse when we work for what we believe to be a proper evaluation and we are denied access to interpreters, bilingual personnel, and are asked to…...

January 18, 2018

19 January 2018, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Can Do Kiddo] You know what’s pretty amazing about your new baby? I mean, aside from the button nose and new baby smell. Your brand spankin’ new little one is hardwired to be interested in things that promote her learning and…...

January 17, 2018

19 January 2018, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: Edutopia] Dysgraphia is a language-based learning difference that affects a student’s ability to produce written language. In the early grades, students with dysgraphia may have difficulty with consistent letter formation, word spacing, punctuation, and capitalization. In later grades, they may have…...

January 17, 2018

19 January 2018, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Science Daily] Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists know far less about the baby’s brain response to touch than to, say, the sight of mom’s face, or the sound of her voice. Now, through the…...

January 17, 2018

Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Your Therapy Source] The Winter Olympics are quickly approaching. It’s a great time to add more movement into the classroom with brain breaks. These quick brain breaks can be highly motivating for the class during an Olympic year. Here are 10…...

January 16, 2018

19 January 2018, News, Newsletter, NICU, Preemies

[Source: Medical X-Press] Preterm babies born early in the third trimester of pregnancy are likely to experience delays in the development of the auditory cortex, a brain region essential to hearing and understanding sound, a new study reveals. Such delays are associated…...

January 15, 2018

19 January 2018, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Chapel Hill Snippets] When I read When Nana Says…. by Shannon Moore Fitzgerald, I immediately traveled back in time to when my own children were little. Ben, my son, surrounded himself with his toy cars in his bed, driving them on his pillow,…...

January 15, 2018

19 January 2018, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: OT Schoolhouse] Hello OTs, COTAs, teachers, parents, and all that appreciate helping students succeed in school. I wanted to share with you all two relatively cheap toys that are so versatile. To be honest, they tend to be my go to…...

January 15, 2018

19 January 2018, News, Newsletter, Special Education

[Source: Disability Scoop] Federal education officials say that for more than a decade Texas delayed and ultimately denied special education services to thousands of students with disabilities. In a sweeping report issued Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education said the Lone Star State failed…...

January 15, 2018

19 January 2018, Hearing Loss, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] In a new international collaborative study between The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, researchers created a machine learning algorithm that uses brain scans to predict language ability in deaf…...