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Sensory and Fine Motor Activity of the Week: Corn Shucking

October 7, 2015

10 October 2015, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Sensory

[The Jenny Evolution and Sensory Spectrum] A corn sensory table doesn’t have to be a formal event. And you certainly don’t need a sensory table, either! All you need is some newspaper (because you don’t want those corn silks all over the…...

October 6, 2015

10 October 2015, Job, Newsletter, OT

Congratulations to Nicole B., on her new position through PediaStaff as a Pediatric and Early Intervention OT! Nicole will be working in a wonderful historic town with a very low cost of living. She will be using sensory integration and oral motor experience and will…...

October 6, 2015

10 October 2015, Newsletter, OT, SPD

[Source: Miss Mancy’s Blog] Halloween is a great time to push children’s sensory boundaries! There are so many gooey, gross activities you can do with them. I like to start with something simple that may feel a little odd to some children…...

October 6, 2015

10 October 2015, Bullying, News of the Week

[Source: Medical X Press] In the most comprehensive study of the effectiveness of anti-bullying policies to date, researchers found that compliance with the U.S. Department of Education guidelines in antibullying laws reduced rates of bullying and cyberbullying—the most common forms of peer…...

October 5, 2015

[Source: Handwriting is Fun] by Katherine Collmer, OTR/L In recent years, the role of OT, in general, has been changing with the waves of healthcare and education reforms. Despite a certain amount of turmoil and confusion where those changes may have thrown…...

October 5, 2015

10 October 2015, News, Newsletter, Selective Mutism

Editor’s Note: Thank You, Vera Joffe, PdD for this link! [Source: NIH via Vera Joffe] Recently, the first prospective follow-up study conducted 1 year after the end of a cognitive behavioral treatment for children with SM was published (Oerbeck et al., 2015).…...

October 5, 2015

10 October 2015, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Pre-K Pages] Making patterns with spiders is a seasonal and fun way to teach patterning! I am always looking for fun things I can use as manipulatives for learning activities, so when I found spider rings in the dollar store I knew…...

October 5, 2015

10 October 2015, Newsletter, OT, School Psych

[Source: Medical X-Press] There is seemingly no cognitive load associated with the near-instantaneous recognition of individual faces. Indeed, facial recognition is so innate and so obviously critical to human social exchange that researchers have long hypothesized that this ability has a “special…...

September 30, 2015

2 October 2015, Cerebral Palsy, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical X-Press] A research group led by Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine Project Professor MORIOKA Ichirou and Professor IIJIMA Kazumoto (Department of Pediatrics) has suggested a potential method of screening for jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia), a cause of cerebral palsy and loss…...

September 30, 2015

2 October 2015, Autism, News, Newsletter, Vision

[Source EurekAlert] Visual functions, such as the perception of motion direction, start to develop soon after birth and continue to mature over time as infants gain more experience with the world. However, direct evidence of how this maturation process unfolds in the…...