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New Study Provides Mountain of Evidence That Quality Preschool Is the ‘Most Cost-Effective’ Educational Intervention

October 17, 2013

18 October 2013, Early Intervention, Newsletter, OT, Preschool, PT, SLP

[Source: New York Times] by Randy Hoder A decade or so ago, when it was time to send my children to preschool, it never occurred to me to do anything else. For an upper-middle-class family like mine, enrolling my kids in a…...

October 17, 2013

18 October 2013, Article, Newsletter, SLP

by Melanie Feller, M.A., CCC-SLP I will not say “use your words.” There are lots of ways to communicate. I will not tell you to have quiet hands, a quiet mouth, or a quiet body. Please feel free to move them all as…...

October 16, 2013

News, Newsletter, School Psych, SLP

[Source: Medical News Today] Writing instruction in U.S. classrooms is “abysmal” and the Common Core State Standards don’t go far enough to address glaring gaps for students and teachers, a Michigan State University education scholar argues. In a new study, Gary Troia…...

October 16, 2013

18 October 2013, News, PT

[Source: Michigan Tech News] Walking is tricky business, as any toddler knows. And while most artificial feet and limbs do a pretty good job restoring mobility to people who have lost a leg, they have a ways to go before they equal…...

October 16, 2013

18 October 2013, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

By: Virginia Li, Ashley Springer CCC-SLP, and Danielle Dietz CCC-SLP – Pathways.org Approximately 1 in 5 school-age children in the United States speak a language other than English at home, up from 1 in 7 two decades ago [1]. As this demographic…...

October 16, 2013

18 October 2013, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Sensory

I saw this photo on a friend’s FB page with a caption that said the cob/core is a banana. I googled it and found the original post on Instructables.com. The core is actually chilled sugar cookie dough. (There are egg free recipes)…...

October 16, 2013

18 October 2013, Newsletter, Placement, SLP

Congratulations to Megan T., on her SLP-CFY position at one of PediaStaff’s public school-based clients in the Land Of Lakes – Minnesota! Megan will be working with “speech only” students as well as with children with multiple disabilities in an elementary school…...

October 15, 2013

18 October 2013, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Halloween is second only to Christmas for pediatric therapists when it comes to the great activities out there that make sessions fun. Before the social media explosion, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists and PTs had search the internet (and before that local…...

Book Review: Autism Sleeps

October 15, 2013

18 October 2013, Autism, Newsletter

Review by Margaret Rice If you are like me, you have frequently had questions from parents regarding how to help their children with sensory processing difficulties fall asleep and to stay asleep. Now there is Autism Sleeps, written by Ileana McCaigue, OTR, who…...

Young Apes Manage Emotions Like Humans

October 14, 2013

Emotions, Newsletter, 18 October 2013, OT, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Researchers studying young bonobos in an African sanctuary have discovered striking similarities between the emotional development of the bonobos and that of children, suggesting these great apes regulate their emotions in a human-like way. This is important to human…...