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Resource of the Week: Free Online Course on 'Learning Differences'

February 3, 2015

6 February 2014, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: Education Week – On Special Education] A foundation that supports education of children with disabilities is teaming up with North Carolina State University to offer a free six-week “massive open online course,” or MOOC, aimed at teaching participants about student learning differences. The Spring 2015…...

Preschool Anxiety Changes the Brain

February 3, 2015

6 February 2015, Newsletter, School Nurse, School Psych

[Source: Yale Daily News] Anxiety disorders observed in preschoolers — including social phobia, separation anxiety and generalized anxiety disorder — can lead to physiological changes in brain development, a new study from the Yale Child Study Center shows. The researchers imaged the…...

February 3, 2015

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

[Source: Science Daily] Access to state-supported early childhood programs significantly reduces the likelihood that children will be placed in special education in the third grade, academically benefiting students and resulting in considerable cost savings to school districts, according to new research published…...

February 2, 2015

6 February 2015, OT, Tip or Resource, Visual Discrimination

[Source: No Time for Flashcards] Lego Challenges have become a great way for me to get a few minutes to check email while completely thrilling my daughter. She loves these simple challenges and for good reason, she is really good at it,…...

February 2, 2015

[Source: Science Daily] Scientists have found some of the strongest evidence yet that musical training in younger years can prevent the decay in speech listening skills in later life. According to a new Canadian study led by the Rotman Research Institute (RRI)…...

February 2, 2015

6 February 2015, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Infants can make sense of complex social situations, taking into account who knows what about whom, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Our findings show that 13-month-olds can make sense of…...

January 29, 2015

ADHD, Newsletter, Social Skills

[Source: North Shore Pediatrics] Many children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) exhibit significant concerns with regard to their social and emotional functioning. Research has indicated that there is a high correlation between children who have ADHD and their social skills. What is important to…...

Gender Differences and Handwriting

January 28, 2015

30 January 2015, Handwriting, Newsletter

[Source: British Journal of Occupational Therapy via Your Therapy Source] Previous research has indicated differences in handwriting based on gender such as girls have often been shown to write faster and more legibly both in elementary school and in higher grades. Although some…...

January 27, 2015

by Annie Doyle, CCC-SLP My first foray into the blogging world was in July 2014. Yes, I am a blogger newbie. What is most important about this is not how long I’ve blogging, but why I began blogging! My desire to share…...

January 27, 2015

30 January 2015, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: My Aspergers Child] “Can you help me to understand what they mean when they say that children with Aspergers or high functioning autism appear to experience a ‘lack of reciprocity’ in social interactions?” This refers to a child who does not…...