Monthly Archive
May 27, 2014
[Source: Put Me Back Together] By: Jena Casbon In December of 2010, I moved from Boston to my hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the toughest parts of moving was leaving my private speech therapy practice. I gave each of my private…...
Thank You to Melanie Coseo of the School-Based Speech and Language Therapy Group on Facebook for giving us to permission to share this wonderful photo and story!   As you might guess, this post has picked up 806 likes on Facebook so far.…...
[Source:  Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics  via Your Therapy Source] Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics published research on whether 20 children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at greater risk than 27 children without ADHD for problems with sensory processing.  In addition they…...
May 23, 2014
  Congratulations to Alejandra D., CCC-SLP.  She is moving to Austin to work for one of PediaStaff’s pediatric home health clients there. She will be working part-time to start 20-25 hours per week and will build her caseload quickly to full time.  She will be working closely with both…...
[Source:  Medical News Today] Much like key players in social networks, University of Kansas scientists have found evidence that there are keywords in word networks that hold together groups of words in our memory. In a study published in the Journal of Memory…...
May 21, 2014
Thank You to Ann Kulichik of the SLPeeps FB Group for posting this article! [Source: Mental Floss.com] We all know that English spelling is rarely a good guide to pronunciation. One big reason for this is the prevalence of schwa in the spoken language.…...
    Maybe this is why most SLPs when asked, say they are “speech therapists!”   LOL Thank you @asobimizu90 on Instagram for today’s belly laugh!!  ...
May 20, 2014
SLPs AND OTs NEEDED – Come join the PediaStaff team! Our client is interviewing now for a wonderful school district position in the Phoenix area. They are looking for a two full-time Speech Language Pathologists and an Occupational Therapist to work 40…...
Congratulations to Lisa Helvie on winning a set of FOUR Toobaloo Articulation Devices from PediaStaff. Lisa correctly identified all the bloggers in the Happy to Be An SLP Blog Hoppers video that we posted last week. Want to put names to the…...
May 20, 2014
by Stacy Menz, DPT, DPT, Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist JR is 5-year-old boy and can’t sit in a chair or on the floor for more than 1 or 2 minutes at a time. He’s in constant motion and if he focuses on…...