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Team up With OT for Kids and Play Draw Something with a Kiddo!

May 18, 2012

18 May 2012, Newsletter

What a great idea! The folks at OT for Kids in Rockville Maryland are using the super-fun (and highly addictive) free game Draw Something for OT practice! Start a game and help a kiddo learn to draw! Hooray! Their username is OTforKids!…...

May 17, 2012

18 May 2012, AAC, Article

by: One of The Speech Dudes (Dude #1) I have a proverbial bee in my bonnet today related to the sloppy way that some folks seem to think that designing an AAC system is just a matter of (a) collecting a list of…...

Ping Pong Ball Match

May 16, 2012

18 May 2012, Newsletter, OT, Visual Discrimination

Here is one I absolutely love! I stumbled on it on Pinterest. It was originally posted to a blog called the OTs Bag. It’s a visual discrimination/following directions activity called “Ping Pong Ball Match.” Unfortunately the blog doesn’t exist…...

May 15, 2012

18 May 2012, Language Development, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Short but intense training sessions in the form of structured language games from the age of four can stimulate children’s early language development and may also make it easier for children to learn to read. This is found in…...

May 15, 2012

18 May 2012, Article, Newsletter, PT, Torticollis

By: Dr. Joni Redlich, DPT, PCS The child in utero is curled up tight to fit in such a tight space. If a baby’s neck is tilted, it is visually obvious to the parent and pediatrician. If they have asymmetry elsewhere the…...

May 11, 2012

[Source: Science Daily] After completing the first study of its kind, researchers at McMaster University have discovered that very early musical training benefits children even before they can walk or talk. They found that one-year-old babies who participate in interactive music classes…...

May 10, 2012

11 May 2012, Acitivies for Daily LIving, Autism, Newsletter, OT

Thanks to Your Therapy Source for letting us know about this excellent video that that really helps to explain how sensory techniques can help some individuals to learn activities of daily living. It also helps to demonstrate that certain skills can take…...

May 10, 2012

11 May 2012, Autism, Bilingualism, Newsletter

by Paula Bendfeldt-Diaz We moved to the United States 4 years ago, just as my daughter was about to turn 3. At that time she spoke only a few words in Spanish. We put her in a regular, monolingual, preschool and she…...

May 9, 2012

11 May 2012, Newsletter, Specific Language Impairment

Here is a nice fact sheet from the NIDCD (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) on Specific Language Impairment to use and or file in your toolkit! Image Credit: NIDCD What is specific language impairment? Specific language impairment (SLI) is…...

May 9, 2012

11 May 2012, Newsletter, Pin

Wow, this must be some kind of record. I pinned ’25 Alphabet Activities for Kids’ less than 24 hours ago and we have 378 repins already. Not surprising. No Time for Flashcards is one of the best education/child development blogs out there. …...