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Research: Social Skills and Early Powered Mobility

May 14, 2013

17 May 2013, Assistive Technology, News, Newsletter

[Source: Assistive Technology via Your Therapy Source] Assistive Technology published research on social skills and early powered mobility. The participants included 23 children with physical disabilities between the ages of 18 months and 6 years of age. Data was collected at wheelchair…...

May 14, 2013

17 May 2013, Article, Newsletter, SLP

by Ana Paula G. Mumy, MS, CCC-SLP Author’s Note: Though this issue has come to my attention through my current place of employment, the views expressed here are directly mine and not of my employer. I’ve worked in the schools for the…...

May 14, 2013

Dyslexia, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Using MRI, neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center found significant differences in brain anatomy when comparing men and women with dyslexia to their non-dyslexic control groups, suggesting that the disorder may have a different brain-based manifestation based on…...

May 13, 2013

17 May 2013, ADHD, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] The stimulant drug methylphenidate “normalizes” activation of several brain areas in young patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a review published in the May Harvard Review of Psychiatry. Studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) show increased activation…...

May 13, 2013

17 May 2013, Game Review, Language, SLP, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: We recently have been asking some of our favorite bloggers to v review a couple of games by Blue Orange Games. Thank You Ruth Morgan, of Chapel Hill Snippets for her second review — of Tell Tale! The game we…...

Food Color Additive Linked to ADHD

May 9, 2013

10 May 2013, ADHD, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Special Ed Post] by Valerie Lego – More than five million children in this country are diagnosed with ADHD, but how many of them truly have the disorder? Could some of those children be eating something that only makes them appear…...

May 8, 2013

10 May 2013, Balance, Newsletter, Product Review, Tip or Resource, Vestibular

[Source: Friendship Circle.com] How Balance Works Ears play a large role in balance due to the vestibular system which arises in the inner ear and is responsible for processing movement, changes in head positions and the direction and speed of movement. The…...

May 8, 2013

10 May 2013, Article, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ASHAsphere] by Betsy Schreiber How can our clients better incorporate new skills into their speech in their daily lives? It seems that they are often limited by their social interactions with caregivers, parents or spouses, so that they can’t practice or complete speech…...

May 8, 2013

Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] New research from the University of Reading shows that Ice Age people living in Europe 15,000 years ago might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, man and bark, that in some cases could still…...

May 7, 2013

10 May 2013, Book Review, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

[Source: Special Needs Book Review] High fives to Jill Howlett Mays, OTR/L, Her first book, published in October 2011, is exactly the advice needed by parents, caretakers, and educators working with infants to children aged ten. Most importantly the advice and easy-to-do,…...