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September 5, 2014

5 September 2014, Article, Newsletter, OT

[Source: ABC Therapeutics] Thirty years ago there was an important philosophical debate in the occupational therapy profession. That debate had to do with whether or not use of the term ‘patient’ or ‘client’ was more appropriate for occupational therapy.Reilly argued that a…...

September 5, 2014

5 September 2014, Article, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: My Aspergers Child] With the start of school, boys and girls begin to spend much of their day in the classroom, a place where pressures and relationships with other children can be quite stressful. While some youngsters with Asperger’s (AS) and…...

September 5, 2014

Artiicle, Newsletter, School Psych, SLP

Editor’s Note: This article was written for SLPs but this app could be quite useful for School Psychologists and Special Ed Teachers by Sean Sweeney, CCC-SLP Photos have nearly endless applications in speech-language therapy: descriptive skills, focus on specific structures such…...

September 5, 2014

5 September 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Medical News Today] A new study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new insights on how psychotherapy works. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for panic disorder with agoraphobia (PD/AG). It is unknown, how variants of CBT differentially modulate…...

September 4, 2014

5 September 2014, Newsletter, Pinterest, School Nurse, Tip or Resource

PediaStaff would like to welcome several school nurses to our team this school year! We are really enjoying working with all of you and hope that school nursing will become an integral part of what we do and who we are as a…...

September 4, 2014

5 September 2014, BCBA, Behavior Analyst, Career, Job, Newsletter

We are working with a client who has an immediate full time need for a Pediatric Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) in Champaign, IL. The hours are flexible as you can make your own schedule based on which clients you will…...

September 3, 2014

Cerebral Palsy, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Research was published comparing the muscle activation and energy expenditure of different postures in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. Energy-expenditure and muscle activity were measured during lying supine, sitting with support, sitting without support, and standing…...

September 3, 2014

5 September 2014, Dyslexia, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Dyslexia, the most commonly diagnosed learning disability in the United States, is a neurological reading disability that occurs when the regions of the brain that process written language don’t function normally. The use of non-invasive functional neuroimaging tools has…...

September 2, 2014

5 September 2014, Newsletter, School Nurse, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: I am thinking that this would be a fantastic “bulletin board craft” for School Nurses to have students do in just a minute to commemorate a visit to the nurses office! [Source: No Time for Flashcards] When…...

September 2, 2014

5 September 2014, OT, Proprioreception, PT, Sensory Processing, Tip or Resource

[Source: Sensory Digest] Thank you, Alexander Lopiccolo of Sensory Digest for sharing this free scooter board bungee webinar with us! Watch it HERE Please support our contributors. Find more Sensory Integration Videos like this one, on the Sensory Digest YouTube Channel. Additionally, Sensory Digest.com …...