Blog - PediaStaff

Brain Changes Seen in Children Whose Bond With Their Mother Was Disrupted Early in Life

December 4, 2013

[Source: Medical News Today] Children who experience profound neglect have been found to be more prone to a behavior known as “indiscriminate friendliness,” characterized by an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers. UCLA researchers are now reporting some of the first…...

December 4, 2013

6 December 2013, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

by Heidi Kay Just before the holiday, I was looking at the profile of one of our new Instagram followers and noticed that he was in fact a poet who specialized in a form called “Blackout Poetry,” where you use a page of…...

December 3, 2013

February 2010, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

Thank You to “Learning Today” for sharing this cool website with us via Twitter. Poisson Rouge offers visitors a unique experience when they stop by this engaging site. With no lengthy instructions to get in the way of the user experience, this…...

December 3, 2013

Motor Skills, News, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Medical News Today] Using a novel stroke rehabilitation device that converts an individual’s thoughts to electrical impulses to move upper extremities, stroke patients reported improvements in their motor function and ability to perform activities of daily living. Results of the study were presented…...

December 3, 2013

Autism, News, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Social Skills

[Source: Medical News Today] A single dose of the hormone oxytocin, delivered via nasal spray, has been shown to enhance brain activity while processing social information in children with autism spectrum disorders, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in…...

December 3, 2013

News, Newsletter, OT, SLP

Editor’s Note: Thank You Pamela Mandell of Speak Eazy Apps and the #SLPeeps on Facebook and Twitter for sharing this very interesting research!! [Source: University of Iowa] Attention, parents: The messier your child gets while playing with food in the high…...

Pediatric SLP Placement of the Week!

December 2, 2013

6 December 2013, Newsletter, SLP

Congratulations to Shelley L, of Connecticut on her part-time school-based speech-language pathology position through PediaStaff! She will work 12-18 hours per week for the remainder of the 2013-2014 school year supporting 2 SLPs with their caseload at one school site. Some…...

December 2, 2013

6 December 2013, Article, Newsletter

[Source: The Complex Child] Kids love crafts, and your child with fine motor impairment is no different. It is definitely possible to do crafts with your child, even if he has no use of his hands. All it takes is a little…...

December 2, 2013

6 December 2013, Article, Newsletter

By Ana Paula G. Mumy, MS, CCC-SLP I recently printed off a Thanksgiving Mad Lib page to try out with a couple of my clients. I made the mistake of not reading it in its entirety before beginning the activity with one…...

November 29, 2013

29 November 2013, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] The ability to differentiate your own body from others is a fundamental skill, critical for humans’ ability to interact with their environments and the people in them. Now, researchers reporting inCurrent Biology, a Cell Press publication, on November 21…...