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'Back to Sleep' Does Not Affect Baby's Ability to Roll

June 6, 2013

7 June 2013, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Science Daily] Baby, keep on rolling. A campaign to put babies to bed on their backs to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome has not impaired infants’ rolling abilities, according to University of Alberta research. Johanna Darrah, a professor…...

June 6, 2013

7 June 2013, Newsletter

Meet Hillary – a bilingual speech-language pathologist who will be contracting for PediaStaff at a school district client in Texas this coming (2013-2014) school year. She will be working in a pre-K facility as well as an elementary school doing bilingual evaluations…...

June 6, 2013

7 June 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Measuring blood flow in the brain may be an easy, noninvasive way to predict stroke or hemorrhage in children receiving cardiac or respiratory support through a machine called ECMO, according to a new study by researchers at Nationwide…...

June 5, 2013

7 June 2013, Article, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Scissor Skills

by Margaret Rice, Your Therapy Source Learning to cut with scissors is a very complex task. Think of all the control required to actually open and close scissors. You many think just the wrist, hand and fingers does the job but in…...

June 5, 2013

7 June 2013, Articulation, Newsletter, SLP

by Heidi Hanks – M.S.CCC-SLP We’ve talked a lot about helping kids with articulation disorders here on Mommy Speech Therapy. I’ve shared my Articulation Screener to help you identify the sounds kids are saying in error as well as an Articulation Goal…...

June 5, 2013

7 June 2013, Newsletter, PT

By Kathryn R. Biel, PT, DPT I am a physical therapist. It often surprises people when I tell them that I work in a school district (a large, urban one, to be exact). I usually get the follow-up question of, “doing what?”…...

June 4, 2013

7 June 2-13, Fine Motor Skills, Hand Strengthening, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: Just adorable and so great for hand strengthening, fine motor, scissor skills, visual motor and of course a big smile from Dad! Instead of stickers, speech- language objectives could be added to this work for following directions, expressing feelings” and…...

June 4, 2013

7 June 2013, Article, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: Bloom] Stephie Coveart is an original. The 21-year-old has autism but is a social butterfly. She can’t read, write, do math or tell time. But the joy that bounces from her drawings of cats and dogs—each coloured in bright, bold markers, floating on…...

June 4, 2013

7 June 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Researchers hope that more accurate diagnosis and assessment can lead to improved inmate behavior and reduce offenses A new ADHD tool is being investigated in the UK prison population for the first time. Researchers from the Institute of…...

June 3, 2013

7 June 2013, Article, Newsletter

[Source: The Washington Post] By Valerie Strauss University of Virginia Professor Daniel Willingham is well known in ed circles for applying cognitive science to K-16 education. One topic to which he has written and returned is the notion of different “learning styles”…...