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Social Stories: An Emerging and Effective Intervention for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

November 28, 2011

25 November 2011, Article, Autism, Newsletter, Social

By: Lee A. Wilkinson, PhD, NCSP Over the past decade social stories have shown promise as a positive and proactive classroom strategy for teaching social skills to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). They continue to be widely discussed, reviewed, and recommended…...

November 21, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at PediaStaff Before all of us at PediaStaff return to our homes for a little family R&R, we wanted to send out this message to our all our readers just to say how thankful we are…...

November 21, 2011

Article, Book, OT, School Psych, Selective Mutism, SLP

All material Copyright © 2009 Selective Mutism Group ~ Childhood Anxiety Network Reprinted with the express permission of SMG as originally published on their website. By: by Gail Kervatt, M.Ed. SM children cannot talk as the result of the physical symptoms caused…...

November 15, 2011

18 November 2011, Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter

By: Lucy Windevoxhel, M.S., CCC-SLP Reprinted with the express permission of Lucy Windevoxhel, as it appears on her website, A Love for Language Editor’s Note: This article was written for parents but is an excellent resource for therapists to share with the…...

November 15, 2011

18 November 2011, Article, Articulation, Newsletter, SLP

By: Erik X. Raj, CCC-SLP Copyright 2011. Reprinted with the express permission of the author as it appeared on his blog Artic Brain Regardless of what grade my students are in, I always make it a point to educate them about the…...

November 15, 2011

18 November 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: ScienceDaily.com] Researchers at UCLA have found a possible explanation for why children with autism act and think differently than their peers. For the first time, they’ve shown that the connections between brain regions that are important for language and social skills…...

November 14, 2011

18 November 2011, ADHD, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source Medical XPress] Cardiff University scientists revealed last year that children with the condition, like those with autism, were more likely than unaffected individuals to carry duplicated or omitted small DNA segments known as copy number variants (CNVs). The findings suggested that…...

November 14, 2011

18 November 2011, Article, Down Syndrome, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, PT, Special Education

by: Ben Sacks and Sue Buckley This article can be found on Down Syndrome Online. Down Syndrome Online offers comprehensive information about Down syndrome, including articles, books and scientific papers. In the first year of life, infants begin to gain control over…...

November 14, 2011

18 November 2011, Article, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] When children are facing a life-threatening illness, bringing in palliative medicine specialists can help both the child and family improve the child’s quality of life, for however long he or she lives. Over the past decade, pediatric palliative…...

November 14, 2011

18 November 2011, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

This week’s Therapy Resource of the Week is website known to few outside of the teaching field. Quia – pronounced “key-ah” is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including: Templates for creating 16 types of online…...