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Most Painful Days of Your Life School Desks and Chronic Back Pain

September 24, 2013

27 September 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Undersize school chairs, low desks and overweight backpacks are contributing to chronic back pain in adolescents, according to a study from researchers in Portugal to be published in the International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics. Ana Assunção and…...

September 24, 2013

27 September 2013, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Small children also suffer from post-traumatic stress disorders after a serious accident. With the aid of a new test, children with an increased risk can already be identified in the space of a few days. The test devised by…...

September 23, 2013

27 September 2013, Newsletter, Oral Motor, SLP

[Source: Kids Activities Blog] My daughter and I were reading about frogs and she thought the idea of their sticky tongue was really funny. She ran and found a blow out party favor and showed me how the frog’s tongue pops out…...

September 23, 2013

27 September 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A new study provides evidence that one important part of memory undergoes substantial development even after the age of 7. Researchers found that episodic memory — the ability to remember not only what happened, but where and when —…...

September 23, 2013

Article, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Newsletter, 27 September 2013, SLP

[Source: ASHAsphere] by Tatyana Elleseff Recently I got one of those phone calls that speech-language pathologists often dread. It went something like this: Parent: Hi. I am looking for a speech therapist who uses PROMPT [Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets]…...

September 20, 2013

20 September 2013, Newsletter, OT, Placement

Congratulations to Kate S., who is headed to Arkansas to work in a brand new clinic for one of PediaStaff’s outpatient therapy clients. She will be working with primarily kiddos ages birth to 5, treating Autism Spectrum Disorder, CP, Down Syndrome, developmental…...

September 19, 2013

20 September 2013, ADHD, Attention, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Science Daily] A short training course in mindfulness improves children’s ability to ignore distractions and concentrate better. These are the findings of a study carried out by Dominic Crehan and Dr Michelle Ellefson at the University of Cambridge being presented today,…...

September 19, 2013

20 September 2013, Language Development, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Medical News Today] USC scientists have discovered a population of neurons in the brains of juvenile songbirds that are necessary for allowing the birds to recognize the vocal sounds they are learning to imitate. These neurons encode a memory of learned…...

September 19, 2013

On the Lighter Side, SLP

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September 19, 2013

20 September 2013, Newsletter, OT, SLP, Social Skills

[Source: Science Daily] Orphaned chimpanzees are less socially competent than chimpanzees who were reared by their mother. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, observed that orphaned chimpanzees frequently engaged in social play, but their play bouts…...