Blog - PediaStaff

January 8, 2014

Thank you to Heather Hennessy Gonzalez of the School-Based Speech and Language Group on Facebook for sending this! It’s called Vocal Fry. Listen closely to how stars like Kim Kardashian or Britney Spears speak…and you’ll quickly recognize it. Now, kids are trying…...

January 8, 2014

10 January 2014, Article, Newsletter, OT, SLP

by Jennifer Hatfield CCC-SLP If you’ve been following me a while, you know that I’m a BIG…let’s say HUGE…fan of games for developing Executive Function skills. I remember the giddiness that I felt when I read my first research article on how great game…...

January 8, 2014

10 January 2014, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Here are 10 ideas to use clothes pins with craft sticks. These are inexpensive activities to create to use in the classroom setting while encouraging strengthening of the hand muscles. Use them for academics, sensory diets, emotions and coordination. Head over to www.YourTherapySource.com/freeclothespin for…...

January 7, 2014

Autism, Newsletter, 10 January 2014

Editor’s Note: This is a great article to print out and share with your students on the spectrum! In 2009, a shy, 47-year-old Scottish woman touched the world with her breathtaking rendition of Les Misérables’ “I Dreamed A Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent. After…...

January 7, 2014

10 January 2014, Newsletter, PT

[Source: Medical News Today] New research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism suggests that mothers who have a higher intake of vitamin D during pregnancy are more likely to have children with stronger muscles. Vitamin D is known to help regulate the…...

January 7, 2014

10 January 2014, Newsletter, Preemies

[Source: Science Daily] The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry. Physical contact with babies is essential for their physical and psychological development. This lesson…...

January 6, 2014

10 January 2014, Newsletter, Placement, SLP

Congratulations to Heather L, on her temporary position with PediaStaff’s client in Southern California! Heather will be filling in for a maternity leave in an elementary school. Way to Go, Heather!...

January 6, 2014

10 January 2014, ADHD, Newsletter

[Source: Boston.com] by Claudia M. Gold In the Tony award winning play God of Carnage two couples meet in an elegant living room for an ostensibly civilized conversation about the aggressive act of one couple’s child against the other’s. The meeting soon degenerates to…...

January 6, 2014

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Here are 10 ways to encourage catching and throwing skills in children that they can do all by themselves: 1. Toss a balloon up in the air and catch it. 2. Bat a balloon up and down in…...

January 5, 2014

[Source: Medical News Today] When children have low self-esteem, many adults try to build them up with supportive words of encouragement. A recent study confirms this by finding that adults tend to give kids with low confidence more inflated praise. But the…...