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OT Activity of the Week: Spray Shapes and Patterns

May 9, 2012

11 May 2012, Fine Motor Skills, Hand Strengthening, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Thanks to our friends at Your Therapy Source for this great activity – Spray Shapes and Patterns Here is an old favorite therapeutic activity – spray shapes and patterns. Cut up some fun foam into different shapes or use any foam shapes. …...

May 8, 2012

This is so very cool! Thanks to Deb Discenza of Preemie World for letting us know about it!! The Brain Map was adapted in 2006 by ZERO TO THREE from BrainWonders, a collaborative project (1998-2001) between Boston University School of Medicine, Erikson Institute…...

May 8, 2012

11 May 2012, News, Newsletter

Illustration: Copyright Maurice Sendak I was deeply saddened today to hear of the passing of Maurice Sendak who was my all time favorite children’s author. I even wrote a paper on his work in college for an American Studies Literature class in…...

May 7, 2012

11 May 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A Kansas State University graduate student is creating a schoolyard that can become a therapeutic landscape for children with autism. Chelsey King, master’s student in landscape architecture, St. Peters, Mo., is working with Katie Kingery-Page, assistant professor of landscape…...

May 4, 2012

ADHD, News

[Source: Science Daily] Slacker or go-getter? Everyone knows that people vary substantially in how hard they are willing to work, but the origin of these individual differences in the brain remains a mystery. Now the veil has been pushed back by a…...

May 3, 2012

4 May 2012, News, Newsletter, TBI

Editor’s Note: While the death of Junior Seau is not strictly a pediatric story, perhaps we as therapists of our youth need to be more vocal about the potential dangers of football with the parents and guardians of our kiddos. [Source: ABC…...

May 3, 2012

4 May 2012, Newsletter, Stuttering

All material Copyright © 1991-2009 Stuttering Foundation of America. Reprinted with the express permission of the Stuttering Foundation of America as originally published on their website. By: Rosalee Shenker, PhD Montreal Fluency Centre According to the recent United States Census, one in…...

May 1, 2012

4 May 2012, Literacy, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Two of my favorite bloggers (Ruth Morgan at Chapel Hill Snippets and Adeline’s Mom at We Can Do All Things) have written about this site recently and I wanted to make sure all of you knew about it too! Tar Heel Reader…...

May 1, 2012

4 May 2012, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Here is a really cute idea posted on the excellent blog Childhood 101 Would be a fun ‘craftivity’ for Mother’s Day! We attend a great playgroup once a week and this was one of our recent creative projects – a cardboard…...

TxTools Reviews Page

April 30, 2012

4 May 2012, Newsletter

We are so excited to have released TxTools, our very first App for iDevices. Its been fun so far and we are already are starting to get great feedback and even reviews. Do you have comments and suggestions for how we can…...