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Pinterest Pinboard of the Week: Therapy Ideas and Activities for St. Patrick's Day

February 21, 2013

10 March 2012, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Are you excited for St. Patrick’s Day? Its such a fun holiday to celebrate in the therapy room! Come on by our Pinterest St. Patrick’s Day board (now in year two!) and check out the almost 300 Activities, Resources and Treats you…...

SLP Corner: With a Bit of Grace

February 20, 2013

22 February 2013, Article, Fluency, Newsletter, SLP, Stuttering

by Kim Lewis, M. Ed., CCC-SLP When I was in grad school, our campus clinic saw a high percentage of fluency clients. One of the clinical supervisors was passionate about this area of our field and, as a result, I had the…...

February 20, 2013

22 February 2013, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A new study by Columbia Engineering researchers finds that the infant brain does not control its blood flow in the same way as the adult brain. The paper, which the scientists say could change the way researchers study brain…...

February 20, 2013

22 February 2013, Article, Newsletter

[Source: Washington Post] By Katherine Schultz Jessica Lahey, a high school teacher and writer, argues in the Atlantic magazine that introverts should be required to speak in class. She claims that classroom participation grades are not only fair but are necessary. Drawing…...

February 20, 2013

22 February 2013, Language, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] The iCub humanoid robot on which the team directed by Peter Ford Dominey, CNRS Director of Research at Inserm Unit 846* has been working for many years will now be able to understand what is being said to it…...

App of the Week: Sentence Maker

February 19, 2013

22 February 2013, App, Newsletter

[Source: Teachers With Apps] Sentence Maker, by Grasshopper Apps, is just terrific! Somehow, Sentence Maker fell through the cracks and we didn’t review it when we first started using it. This simple, yet sensational, app is powerful. We’ve had students working with …...

February 19, 2013

22 February 2013, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter

Thank You to Stacy Menz of Starfish Therapies for this great idea! Okay, so the title may be confusing but this is what our therapist and her kiddo called it. I loved the idea. They took these awesome carpet squares that we…...

February 18, 2013

22 February 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for before-and-after analysis, a team of researchers including a UC Santa Barbara graduate student discovered positive changes in brain activity in children with autism who received a particular type of behavioral therapy. Work…...

February 18, 2013

22 February 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] If you started piano lessons in grade one, or played the recorder in kindergarten, thank your parents and teachers. Those lessons you dreaded – or loved – helped develop your brain. The younger you started music lessons, the…...

February 18, 2013

[Source: Medical News Today] Even very young children understand that adults don’t always know best. When it comes to helping, 3-year-olds may ignore an adult’s specific request for an unhelpful item and go out of their way to bring something more useful,…...