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Training Changes the Way the Brain Pays Attention

June 29, 2017

30 June 2017, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] Behavioral training changes the way attention facilitates information processing in the human brain, a study publishing on June 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology led by Sirawaj Itthipuripat, at University of California San Diego, has found. After…...

June 29, 2017

30 June 2017, Article, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT

Editor’s Note: This article was written for parents and guardians and would be an excellent share with your clients’s caregivers. [Source: Mama OT] It’s raining cats and dogs and you’re rushing to get the kids out the door. Your 8-year-old throws on…...

June 28, 2017

30 June 2017, News, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: Mind Shift] Impulsive children become thoughtful adults only after years of improvements to the brain’s information highways, a team reports in Current Biology. A study of nearly 900 young people ages 8 to 22 found that the ability to control impulses,…...

App of the Week: Dr. Panda Train

June 28, 2017

30 June 2017, App, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Smart Apps for Kids] Bottom Line: What little kid hasn’t been fascinated by trains at one point or another? Dr. Panda Train can help satisfy your little one’s desire to be a conductor and ride the open rails. Help Dr. Panda…...

June 28, 2017

30 June 2017, Bilingual, Job, Newsletter, SLP

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or for the Glendale Heights position or HERE for the Crest Hill/Joliet position Two Bilingual School Psychologists needed to work full time for the SY 2017-18, one near Glendale Heights, IL and the other in the Crest Hill/Joliet…...

Alphabet Fine Motor Fun

June 28, 2017

30 June 2017, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Childhood 101] I love this activity for early readers and writers because it provides lots of opportunity to develop alphabet awareness whilst also exercising and strengthening fingers – in three different ways! Plus, it uses everyday materials that you quite possibly…...

June 28, 2017

30 June 2017, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Medical X-Press] Researchers have identified a network of neurons that plays a vital role in learning vocalizations by aiding communication between motor and auditory regions of the brain. A new study from the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute demonstrates in songbirds…...

June 28, 2017

30 June 2017, Article, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: The Guardian.com] After Jennifer Niven’s top 10 teen books to save your life and to mark Blue Monday (whether or not it exists, Spring still feels a while away) we thought it was high time we had a list of books…...

June 27, 2017

30 June 2017, Career, Job, Newsletter, SLP

Call Today at 866-733-4278 or We have a wonderful full-time school opportunity for a Speech-Language Pathologist to work in the Las Vegas area for the 2017-2018 school year. We need someone to work with children K-8th grade at a charter school.…...

June 27, 2017

30 June 2017, Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, SLP

[Source: Bilinguistics] We have all seen comparisons of Spanish to English that help us work with children across languages. But what do we focus on in our English-only therapy with children who speak Spanish in other contexts, such as with friends or…...