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SLP Corner: Top Ten SLP Articles Published on the PediaStaff Blog

December 18, 2013

20 December 2013, Article, SLP

The end of the year is time to reflect! Please enjoy this list of the top ten viewed speech-language pathology articles we have featured here on PediaStaff since beginning this blog The Challenge of Persistent R Distortions; Clinical Thought and Therapy Ideas…...

December 17, 2013

20 December 2013, ADHD, Article, Newsletter, OT

[Source: New York Times] By Alan Schwarz After more than 50 years leading the fight to legitimize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Keith Conners could be celebrating. Severely hyperactive and impulsive children, once shunned as bad seeds, are now recognized as having a…...

December 17, 2013

20 December, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

As you, know, we have been enjoying Instagram. Today in my feed I saw this great post by Bloggy Mom, Amber Passey of the Because Babies Grow Up blog. What a lovely activity to try with the children either just for fine…...

December 17, 2013

20 December 2013, Articulation, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

This idea was very popular on Instagram a few days ago! It would be a fun way to spend one of your last days before break, or could make an excellent activity idea to send home with your students/clients for them to…...

December 16, 2013

20 December 2013, Article, Newsletter

by Cara Koscinki MOT, OTR/L Children of all ages learn skills through engaging in play. After all, when children are not asleep they are learning about their environment through various play activities during their day. They enjoy diving hands first into play…...

December 16, 2013

20 December 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A new book by Murray Straus, founder and co-director of the Family Research Lab and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, brings together more than four decades of research that makes the definitive case against…...

Muting the Mozart Effect

December 16, 2013

20 December 2013, News, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: This study refers to musical enrichment in the form of young children listening to music as well as musical social play (also known as the Mozart Effect) and does not comment on the cognitive or neurological effects of learning how…...

App Review of the Week: Cookie Doodle

December 16, 2013

20 December 2013, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Tip or Resource

by Allie Landers, MS CCC-SLP I’m always on the hunt for new apps to use in therapy. I’m usually looking for apps not specifically designed for speech and language therapy, but for apps that are fun and engaging to use as motivating means…...

December 12, 2013

13 December 2013, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Hugely popular with our Instagram followers. How adorable is this? Fine motor grasping, cutting and gluing. For speech, every successful production gets a cotton ball!! Seen on Pinterest. Pinned on our Winter board on Pinterest. Original post is gone but it…...

Autism Corner: Social Dough

December 12, 2013

13 December 2013, Autism, Newsletter

by Cindy Meester, MS CCC-SLP “E” is a first grader in one of our Autism classrooms. She has a lot of great skills but of course social peer relationships can be difficult. I paired her with “J” from her mainstream classroom. It…...