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Monthly Archive
Food For Thought: Person-First Language: Why It Matters (The Significance of Semantics)
December 1, 2011
2 December 2011, Article, Autism, Newsletter
by:  Lydia Brown At the Adult Services Subcommittee’s final meeting in late July, much to do was made about semantic disagreements — “ASD individual” versus “individual with ASD,” and of course, the dreaded “person with autism” or “person who has autism” versus…...
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Baby With Down Syndrome Takes the Modeling World By Storm
December 1, 2011
2 December 2011, Down Syndrome, News of the Week
[Source: The Blaze] Taya Kennedy isn’t your average baby model. The 14-month-old has a beautiful smile and a twinkle in her eye, which is why it‘s no surprise that she’s been a major success in the kid-modeling world. But it is the fact that…...
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Dyslexia in the News (ABC) Are Color-Filtering Lenses: Better Reading for Children with Dyslexia?
December 1, 2011
Dyslexia, News, Newsletter
[Source: ABC News] Specially tinted lenses originally developed for color blindness are helping some U.S. dyslexics read faster and see words more clearly, confirming the claims of the lenses’ British inventor and the company that started selling them here in September. As…...
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New Study Supports Uniqueness of Sensory Processing Disorder
November 30, 2011
News, SPD, SPD
[Source: SPD Foundation] New Research on Sensory Over-Responsivity (SOR) suggests possible prenatal risk factors, genetic heritability, and supports uniqueness of Sensory Processing Disorder/SOR. Dr. Hill Goldsmith, a member of the SPD Scientific Workgroup from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues recently…...
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Brain Enlargement Seen In Boys With Regressive Autism, But Not Early Onset Autism
November 30, 2011
2 December 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter
[Source: Medical News Today] In the largest study of brain development in preschoolers with autism to date, a study by UC Davis MIND Institute researchers has found that 3-year-old boys with regressive autism, but not early onset autism, have larger brains than…...
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Technology for Speech in the News
November 29, 2011
Thanks Alexey Salamini for sending us this video featuring Speech Buddies in the News on CBS, Smart Planet website !  So glad to see you are getting press! Read the PediaStaff Product Review on Speech Buddies featured in March of 2011...
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Pinterest Holiday Pin of the Week (with links to our holiday boards) – Hand Santa Falling Down the Chimney
November 29, 2011
25 November 2011, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource
I fell in love with this one the minute I saw it, and while it might not be the very most repinned Pinterest pin of the week it is certainly quite popular and definitely the cutest!   We f0und it from Holly Garner,…...
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Art Makes Sense – Sensory Art Therapy
November 29, 2011
25 November 2011, Art Therapy, Article, Newsletter, SPD
By: Pamela Ullmann, ATR-BC, LCAT copyright 2010. Pamela Ullmann.  This blog post has been reprinted with express permission of the author as it appeared on her Full Spectrum Blog Creative art making can offer unique ways for children to gain a sense…...
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Playful Behavior Of Young Chimps Develops Like That Of Children
November 28, 2011
Playful behavior is widespread in mammals, and has important developmental consequences. A recent study of young chimpanzees shows that these animals play and develop much the same way as human children. The work, to be published in the Nov. 16 issue of…...
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Resource of the Week: Predictive Cluttering Inventory (PCI)
November 28, 2011
25 November 2011, Newsletter, Stuttering, Tip or Resource
Thanks to our friends at Heaman Comunication for reminding us of this great resource, David Daly’s Predictive Cluttering Inventory (PCI)...
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