[Source: Medical News Today] New research suggests children don’t understand competitive behavior until around the age of four. A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and University of Salzburg found most children under 4 did not have a developed understanding…...
[Source: Speechy Musings] When Thinkfun asked if I would be willing to review a game of theirs, I jumped on board. They sent Word A Round which is SUCH fun game. I’ll show you more about it below! …...
by Stacy Menz, DPT, Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist One of the things I love being a pediatric physical therapist is when my friends ask me questions about their kids. I’m sure many may think that’s odd but I love that it…...
by Kristine of Listen, Speak, Play as featured on Playing with Words 365 Special Education is about about providing support and services for one curriculum – the general education curriculum. Special Education consists of supports and services, it is not a place. All students…...
[Source: Medical News Today] Difficulty in registering and responding to the facial expressions of other people is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Relatedly, functional imaging studies have shown that individuals with ASD display altered brain activations when processing facial images.…...
by Katherine Collmer, OTR/L Elementary school children spend 30-60% of their classroom time working at their desks on fine motor skills, predominantly on tasks involving handwriting. A visual sweep of the classroom scene will uncover as many seated body postures as there…...
[Source: Science Daily] An international consortium has shown for the first time evidence of substantial overlap of genetic risk factors shared between bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia and less overlap between those conditions and autism and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),…...
Editor’s Note: We do not link the headline Science Daily used on this article as it implies a causal relationship, but the fact the study is documenting co-morbidity is important. [Source: Science Daily] The number of children being diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder…...
[Source: Science Daily] About 10 percent of the U.S. population suffers from dyslexia, a condition that makes learning to read difficult. Dyslexia is usually diagnosed around second grade, but the results of a new study from MIT could help identify those children…...
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