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Hot Jobs! School Based SLPs for Wisconsin!

September 16, 2015

18 September 2015, Jobs, Newsletter, SLP

We are working with a school district in Racine who is in need of several full time Speech Language Pathologists for the upcoming school year. Hours are 7:30 – 3:30 daily. The kiddos are in elementary, middle and high school. This…...

September 16, 2015

25 September 2015, Article, News, Newsletter, School Nurse

[Source: National Public Radio] With record numbers of young people using heroin and opioid painkillers, more school nurses are prepared to intervene in the event of an overdose on school grounds. Listen to the Story on NPR dup32219...

September 16, 2015

Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Pre-K Pages.com] This fall tree letter matching activity is a fun and simple way to practice letter recognition with young children. The final product is a beautiful fall tree that can be displayed for all to see! I love to set…...

SLP Corner: Rapping Role Models. Really

September 15, 2015

18 September 2015, Article, Newsletter, SLP

by Kim Lewis CCC_SLP of the Activity Tailor blog You know you’re a speech language pathologist when your son turns up a rap song and you think, “that guy has an unreal diadochokinetic rate.” True story. Then this summer, I saw a study…...

September 15, 2015

18 September 2015, Career, Job, OT

Congratulations, to Heather on her new Pediatric OT position with PediaStaff’s outpatient clinic client in Central Florida. She will be working half time, mostly during after school hours. This is a family-friendly, multi-disciplinary practice. You will do great there, Heather. Best…...

September 15, 2015

18 September 2015, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Medical X Press] New research from the University of Maryland and Harvard University suggests that young infants benefit from hearing words repeated by their parents. With this knowledge, parents may make conscious communication choices that could pay off in their babies’…...

September 15, 2015

Editor’s Note: Thank You to Joanna Verdone for compiling, and the OTs of the Pediatric OT Facebook page for contributing to this tremendous list of exercises and resources for ocular-motor skills. [Source from the over 18,000 OT’s on the “Pediatric Occupational Therapists”…...

September 14, 2015

18 September 2015, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Brick by Brick] As I said before, we love to paint. We do it almost every week. Lately we’ve been painting with things other than brushes; we’ve been using kitchen items to paint. Last week we painted with a salad spinner.…...

September 14, 2015

[Source: Disability Scoop] Newly available genetic testing may offer answers for about 16 percent of children with autism, according to a new study that’s lending support for more widespread use of the analyses. With scientists rapidly identifying genes with ties to autism,…...

September 14, 2015

18 September 2015, Down Syndrome, News, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] PITTSBURGH — Doctors warned the Kondrich family that their daughter would be different. They were right. In the past year alone, Chloe Kondrich has hung out with rock stars in Manhattan; visited with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf; posed for…...