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Toronto Mom Carries Sign to Alert Strangers About Son's Autism

March 2, 2015

6 March 2015, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Toronto Star] Attention all subway passengers. Farida Peters wants you to know that if she had time, she’d stop and explain. She would apologize and tell you she’s doing the best she can on the crowded train. That she’s not a…...

February 26, 2015

News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP, Stuttering

[Source: Medical Xpress] Stuttering—a speech disorder in which sounds, syllables or words are repeated or prolonged—affects more than 70 million people worldwide. That’s 1 percent of the global population. Four times as many men as women are afflicted with the disorder and,…...

February 26, 2015

27 February 2015, Article, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Reading Rockets] by June Berhmann For some students, hearing passages aloud is enough for them to understand the content. For those learners, human and/or electronic readers keep them involved with learning across the curriculum. Sometimes those learners combine an audiobook and…...

February 26, 2015

27 February 2015, Article, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Mama OT] Today Occupational Therapist and owner of CanDo Kiddo, Rachel Coley, M.S., OTR/L, is here to share one of her many creative baby play activities. She also has a pretty awesome, one-of-a-kind product she has created to equip new parents to know…...

February 26, 2015

27 February 2015, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: Medical News Today] A growth hormone can significantly improve the social impairment associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in patients with a related genetic syndrome, according to a pilot study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published on…...

How Brain Waves Guide Memory Formation

February 25, 2015

27 February 2015, News, Newsletter, OT, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Our brains generate a constant hum of activity: As neurons fire, they produce brain waves that oscillate at different frequencies. Long thought to be merely a byproduct of neuron activity, recent studies suggest that these waves may play a…...

February 25, 2015

Autism, OT, Tip or Resource

This s a great resource that AOTA just put on their website! [Source: AOTA] The feature article in the February 9 issue of OT Practice is about toilet training for children with autism. What is your role as an occupational therapy practitioner?…...

February 25, 2015

27 February 2015, Language, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] In a paper published in the journal Cortex, an international team of researchers in the UK and in Japan, including those at the University of Warwick, examined the electrical activities of the brain in 11 month-olds at the initial stages…...

February 25, 2015

27 January 2015, Autism, Feeding Disorders, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Recent research was published to investigate the physical status and feeding behavior among 23 children with autism, ages 5-16 years old (higher enrollment of males). A 3 day food record was collected using a parent questionnaire, the Brief Assessment…...

February 24, 2015

27 February 2015, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source NPR via MindShift] By Eric Westervelt, NPR Our “Tools of the Trade” series is taking a look at some of the iconic objects that form a vital part of our educational lives. For an upcoming piece, I’m reporting on how young children…...