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Autism Resource of the Week: Video on the Importance of Social Stories

April 2, 2014

4 April 2014, Newsletter, Social Stories

[Source: My Aspergers Child] Please visit My Aspergers Child for a great video discussion about social stories and how parents, therapists and caregivers can use social stories with their students and children with autism. ...

April 2, 2014

4 April 2014, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Languages are learned, it’s true, but are there also innate bases in the structure of language that precede experience? Linguists have noticed that, despite the huge variability of human languages, there are some preferences in the sound of words…...

April 2, 2014

4 April 2014, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

by Mary Huston, #SLPeep A recent discussion on caseloads in the School-Based Speech And Language Therapy Group on Facebook has made me think… I know ASHA listens when we have information to back us up – I’ve seen it happen in the…...

Book Review: Life With Grace

April 1, 2014

4 April 2014, Book, Newsletter, Preemies

[Source: Preemie World.com] With great honesty, author Jennifer Schwertfeger takes us through her 24-weeker Grace’s miraculous 9-month NICU journey from troublesome pregnancy to birth to NICU to home and into the school years. This book is helpful to parents of preemies at…...

April 1, 2014

4 April 2014, Bullying, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: NPR.org] Movies like Mean Girls have told us that the popular crowd rules, and the nerds and nonconformists get picked on. But even the top rungs of high school social ladder aren’t immune to bullying, researchers say. Becoming more popular can actually increase…...

April 1, 2014

4 April 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT

Very interesting article. Thank you to Loren Shlaes of the pediatricOT blog [Source: Boing Boing] The Swanson School in Auckland, NZ, quietly eliminated all the rules against “unsafe play,” allowing kids to play swordfight with sticks, ride scooters, and climb trees. It…...

Sample School Psychologist CV

April 1, 2014

Below you will find a link to a sample CV we have created for a school psychologist. Feel free to use it as a template. View/Download Sample CV...

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March 31, 2014

Career, Newsletter, PediaStaff

The PediaStaff Weekly newsletter a weekly newsletter featuring pediatric therapy news – including research and articles aggregated from the Internet’s top medical and news feeds. You will find therapy ideas and activities, career resources, (including interview and job search tips), information on…...

March 31, 2014

4 April 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter, SPD

[Source: ABC Therapeutics] I was very happy to see another article on weighted vests in the current issue of AJOT (Lin, Lee, Chang, and Hong, 2014). The last opportunity we had to look at this issue was the excellent pilot study completed…...

March 31, 2014

4 April 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] In a study of 14,000 U.S. children, 40 percent lack strong emotional bonds – what psychologists call “secure attachment” – with their parents that are crucial to success later in life, according to a new report. The researchers…...