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Pediatric Therapy Idea of the Week: Affordable Magnetic Alphabet (or whatever) Board

June 18, 2013

21 June 2013, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: The Nic and Kate blog] Here is a GREAT idea for the classroom, home or clinic. Use a galvanized automotive oil drip tray to make an extremely affordable magnetic board for all sorts of activities! Here is an affordable Drip Pan…...

June 17, 2013

21 June 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A study using brain images from “quiet” MRI machines adds to the growing body of evidence that breastfeeding improves brain development in infants. Breastfeeding alone produced better brain development than a combination of breastfeeding and formula, which produced better…...

June 17, 2013

21 June 2013, Autism, Fragile X, News, Newsletter

[Source: UCLA Newsroom] The genetic malady known as Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of inherited autism and intellectual disability. Brain scientists know the gene defect that causes the syndrome and understand the damage it does in misshaping the brain’s…...

Targeting an Aspect of Down Syndrome

June 17, 2013

21 June 2013, Down Syndrome, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] University of Michigan researchers have determined how a gene that is known to be defective in Down syndrome is regulated and how its dysregulation may lead to neurological defects, providing insights into potential therapeutic approaches to an aspect of…...

June 17, 2013

21 June 2013, Autism, News

[Source: Live Science] Children with autism often have difficulty making eye contact, and now a new study suggests this may be due in part to how their brains process visual information, rather than being purely a social deficit. In the study, children…...

June 14, 2013

14 June 2013, Newsletter, Placement

Meet Tava – a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant who has been contracting for PediaStaff in Texas for more than five years now and has been asked to come back again for the 2013-2014 school year. Tava’s position is itinerant in nature and…...

June 13, 2013

14 June 2013, Activity of the Week, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: The Recycling OT] I have made sensory socks before and asked children to pull them apart to work on motor planning skills. I have also made socks that attached to one another by buttoning but recently decided to add a button…...

June 13, 2013

Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] In the first prospective study of its kind, Seaver Autism Center researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provide new evidence of the severity of intellectual, motor, and speech impairments in a subtype of autism called…...

June 13, 2013

14 June 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] An analysis of recent data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 97 adolescents who were part of study begun with very low birth weight babies born in 1982-1986 in a Cleveland neonatal intensive care unit has tied smaller brain…...

June 12, 2013

14 June 2013, Autism, News, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Your Therapy Source] Recent research was published on postural control and repetitive behaviors in children with autism. The participants including children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing controls ages 3-16. The center of pressure sway area during quiet,…...