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Fine Motor and Tactile Activity – Salt Letters

January 9, 2012

13 January 2012, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

Here is a sample activity using the letter cards from Your Therapy Source’s electronic book, Alphabet, Number and Shapes Cards. Please support our contributors and visit Your Therapy Source...

January 9, 2012

13 January 2012, Article, Language, Literacy, Newsletter, SLP

This book review is reprinted here with the express permission of All4MyChild as it was originally posted on the All4MyChild Blog, December 12, 2011 Title: Don’t Wake up the Bear Author: Majorie Dennis Murray Review by: Meghan G. Graham M.S. CCC-SLP Description:…...

January 9, 2012

13 January 2012, Article, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Visual Perception

By: Barbara Smith, OTR/L As young children manipulate toys they develop visual perceptual skills to discriminate shapes, sizes and how objects relate to one another in space. These early visual perceptual skills will later help them discriminate letters- the first steps toward…...

January 9, 2012

13 January 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Immune system abnormalities that mimic those seen with autism spectrum disorders have been linked to the amyloid precursor protein (APP), reports a research team from the University of South Florida’s Department of Psychiatry and the Silver Child Development Center.…...

January 6, 2012

6 January 2012, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ASHA] From time to time, the ASHA School Services team is asked by members for guidance in writing Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and objectives. To answer these questions, the School Services team asked ASHA members across the country if they…...

January 5, 2012

6 January 2012, Article, Newsletter, PT

Copyright April 2009, Reprinted with permission of the author as it appeared on the Starfish Therapies Blog By: Stacy Menz, DPT, Board Certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist I’m constantly amazed at how often I see children w-sitting these days. I often treat children…...

Pinterest Pinboard of the Week

January 4, 2012

6 January 2012, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Looking for good therapy activities for Martin Luther King Day (January 16th)? Check out our MLK Pinboard on Pinterest. There you will find lesson plans, writing prompts, links to great videos, printables, crafts and more to enhance your therapy activities. Visit our…...

January 4, 2012

6 January 2012, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: CNN] Figuring out what’s cool. Struggling for acceptance. Dealing with homework. These are familiar perils of middle school. But Haley Moss did it all while dealing with a hidden challenge: autism. Now Haley, 15, is using her experience as a person…...

January 4, 2012

6 January 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: Absolutely wonderful article about young people doing exactly what the title says — navigating love and autism. Enjoy. [Source: New York Times] GREENFIELD, Mass. — The first night they slept entwined on his futon, Jack Robison, 19, who had since…...

January 3, 2012

6 January 2012, Dyslexia, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] People with dyslexia often struggle with the ability to accurately decode and identify what they read. Although disrupted processing of speech sounds has been implicated in the underlying pathology of dyslexia, the basis of this disruption and how…...