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Celebrate Cultural Diversity! PediaStaff Resources for Hanukkah and Kwanza!

December 13, 2011

16 December 2011, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Christmas-time is a wonderful time of year, but it is also a time for other celebrations as well., Rather than lumping all of the holidays into a mush of “Holiday” celebrations that lose the essence of each individual traditions, how about celebrating…...

December 13, 2011

16 December 2011, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Thank You, Liz Gretz of the Speech Lady Blog for answering our “challenge” to come up with culturally diverse therapy activities! Heidi Kay over at Pediastaff challenged some bloggers to create therapy activies related to Chanukah and Kwanza. While the activity I came…...

December 13, 2011

16 December 2011, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Babies love to imitate. Ask any parent and they’ll report how infants mimic sounds, facial expressions and actions they observe. Now new research from Concordia University, published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development, has found that infants…...

December 13, 2011

16 December 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] It’s still unclear what’s different in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but evidence from genetic and cell studies points to abnormalities in how brain cells (neurons) connect to each other. A study at Children’s…...

December 13, 2011

16 December 2011, News, Newsletter, TBI

[Source: New York Times, ‘Well’ Blog] What happens inside the skull of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivated a provocative new study of the brains of experienced players that has prompted discussion and debate in the…...

December 12, 2011

16 December 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[The Sun, UK] MOST parents would not bat an eyelid if their young son or daughter asked them to sit down and watch a DVD together. But when Katreena Duffin’s autistic daughter Shannon bounded up and asked just this, the mum of…...

December 12, 2011

16 December 2011, Article, Feeding Disorders, Newsletter, OT, SLP

by Debra C. Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP To start, cut a regular straw in half. Not only is a shorter straw easier to handle, but it also takes less strength for a child to suck liquid from a shorter straw. Dip the straw…...

December 12, 2011

16 December 2011, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

Special Thanks to Tonya at Therapy Fun Zone for designing this fun game for us for the holiday season! ————————– The blog at Pediastaff was looking for some therapy games that have a connection to Hanukkah, and I have been making a…...

Guest Blog: Othello: A Speech Strategy

December 9, 2011

9 December 2011, Article, Articulation, Language, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

By: Kim Lewis, M.S. CCC-SLP This blog post is reprinted here with express permission of the author as it appeared on her blog Activity Tailor (this post appeared on 2Gals Talk…about speech therapy on August 15, 2011) I love board games and…...

December 9, 2011

9 December 2011, Book, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter

Book By: Barbara A. Smith, OTR/L Reviewed By: Sunita Murty, M.S. OTR/L Published/Produced By: Therapro, Inc From Rattles to Writing by Barbara A. Smith is a nice guide for parents, or anyone interacting with children, of typical and atypical development. The parent’s…...