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Adaptation Idea of the Week: Adapted Straw

May 7, 2013

10 May 2013, Adaptation, Idea of the Week, News

[Source: Your Therapy Source] This is great!!! – A picture says a thousand words but head on over to YourTherapySource for more details and uses for this simple adapted straw holder. ...

May 7, 2013

10 May 2013, Article, Newsletter, OT, PT, SLP

[Source: Complex Child E-Magazine] Imagine you are a preschooler with cerebral palsy, unable to control your muscle movements or communicate with your voice. Imagine that on one particular day, your mother dresses you in your purple scratchy dress, even though you hate…...

May 7, 2013

10 May 2013, Article, Auditory Processing Disorder, Newsletter, SLP

by Jeremy Legaspi, MS CCC-SLP This post is hopefully the start of an open dialog among colleagues about Auditory Processing Disorders. I have had this post in draft mode for some time and it’s almost the start of a larger post but due to the recent…...

May 6, 2013

10 May 2013, Early Intervention, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), a comprehensive behavioral early intervention program that is appropriate for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as young as 12 months, has been found to reduce the need for ASD therapies and special…...

May 6, 2013

Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] The biggest study of fetal growth and autism to date has reported that babies whose growth is at either extreme in the womb, either very big or very small, are at greater risk of developing autism. It is the…...

May 6, 2013

Behavior, News, Newsletter, OT, SPD

[Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development via Your Therapy Source] Child Psychiatry and Human Development published research on the role of sensory modulation deficits and behavioral symptoms in a diagnosis for young children. Using clinical observation 78 toddlers were divided into two…...

May 6, 2013

10 May 2013, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] When children with conduct problems see images of others in pain, key parts of their brains don’t react in the way they do in most people. This pattern of reduced brain activity upon witnessing pain may serve as a…...

May 6, 2013

10 May 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter, Rett Syndrome

[Source: Science Daily] Researchers at the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at IDIBELL led by Manel Esteller, ICREA researcher and professor of genetics at the University of Barcelona, have described alterations in noncoding long chain RNA sequences (lncRNA) in Rett syndrome. These…...

May 2, 2013

3 May 2013, Language, News, Newsletter

Image Credit: Alexandra Day from the “Carl” series of Wordless Storybooks [Source: Science Daily.com] Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary…...

Handedness and ADHD

May 2, 2013

3 May 2013, ADHD, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Your Therapy Source] The Journal of Attention Disorders published research on hand preference and its association with ADHD, severity symptoms, age, gender, comorbid psychiatric problems, or parental characteristics. Participants included 520 children (mean age of 9.04 years). Each subject was assessed…...