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Career Corner: New Grads – Pacing Your First Year of Work

December 9, 2014

12 December 2014, Career, Career Tip, Newsletter

Teresa Roberts, MS, CCC-SLP Your career is a marathon – not a sprint. Perhaps you are still operating at the breakneck pace of graduate school, completing one activity as fast as you can before moving on to the next task. Months and…...

December 9, 2014

We love this one! Here are some fun Would You Rather Questions to use during the Holiday Season. Great for stimulating conversation! [Source: Minds in Bloom] Download this Fun Freebie from Minds In Bloom dup 121418...

"Frozen" Inspired Salt Writing Tray

December 9, 2014

12 December 2014, Handwriting, Newsletter, OT

[Source: I Can Teach My Child] I am somewhat obsessed with the smooth, shiny, ice-like texture from corn syrup paint. A few weeks ago we created a Frozen-inspired name painting. After it was finished, I thought it would be a great for a…...

Best Picture Books of 2014

December 9, 2014

12 December 2014, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

[Source: Huffington Post] After the last fantastic year in picture books, it was hard to imagine 2014 reaching the same heights. And indeed, my initial impression was that this year’s offerings fell short of 2013’s stellar crop. However, as I sifted and sorted…...

December 8, 2014

Congratulations to Jennifer W., on her new part-time position with PediaStaff’s client in West Suburban Boston! She will be working as a Physical Therapist 6-10 hours a week for the remainder of the school year. They have one other PT working…...

December 8, 2014

Christmas-time is a wonderful time of year, but it is also a time for other celebrations as well., Rather than lumping all of the holidays into a mush of “Holiday” celebrations that lose the essence of each individual traditions, how about celebrating…...

December 8, 2014

Mutiple Sclerosis, Newsletter, Video

[Source: ESPN Via ABC News] Entering her senior year at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Kayla Montgomery had big goals—to win the Cross-Country State Championship. It was a goal that seemed completely impossible just three years earlier, when Kayla…...

December 8, 2014

Autism, Neurobiology, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] The common chemo-therapy drug topotecan disrupts a gene integral for neuron communication, though the effects are reversible. The research also homes in on an underlying cause of autism. UNC School of Medicine researchers have found for the first time a…...

December 4, 2014

5 December 2014, Deaf Education, Hard of Hearing, Newsletter, Sign Language Interpreter, SLI

[Source: Hands & Voices] What is social cognition and theory of mind? Humans are social animals and we spend a great deal of time in social relationships. As children develop, they gain a better understanding of peers and adults around them. They…...

December 4, 2014

Angelmans Syndrome, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, PT, SLP

[Source: Medical News Today] Most genes are inherited as two working copies, one from the mother and one from the father. However, in a few instances, a gene is imprinted, which means that one copy is silenced. This is called genomic imprinting.…...