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Play in the News: Can a Playground Be Too Safe?

July 25, 2011

29 July 2011, News, Newsletter, Play

Special Thanks to our blogger, friend, Loren Shlaes for the heads up on this article. [Source: The New York Times] When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox.…...

Guest Blog: By Hand

July 21, 2011

22 July 2011, Article, Fine Motor Skills, Hand Eye Coordination, Handwriting, Newsletter, OT

By: Loren Shlaes, OTR/L Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique “Man, through the use of his hands, as they are energized by his mind and will, can influence the state of his own health.” {Mary Reilly, 1962} In order to do and…...

July 21, 2011

22 July 2011, Article, OT, Sensory Integration

By: Anne Cronin, Davidson Institute for Talent Development 2003 This article by Anne Cronin offers an explanation of sensory integration, SI dysfunctions, and how it might affect gifted and talented individuals. The author also discusses implications in terms of development. A sensory…...

July 20, 2011

22 July 2011, Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ScienceDaily] It’s not just the words, but the sounds of words that have meaning for us. This is true for children and adults, who can associate the strictly auditory parts of language — vowels produced in the front or the back…...

July 19, 2011

22 July 2011, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Here is a great list of 50 fine motor skills activities for older children written by ‘Mr. Jeremy’ of the New Hope International School in Tokyo. Jeremy has a nice blog that we will continue to monitor. [Source: Make Learning Fun] Fine…...

July 19, 2011

22 July 2011, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have defined, for the first time, three different processing stages that a human brain needs to identify sounds such as speech – and discovered that they are the same as ones…...

July 18, 2011

29 July 2011, Article, Newsletter, OT, Sensory Integration, SPD, Tip or Resource

by Lindsey Biel Summertime can be both wonderful and stressful for kids with sensory issues and their families. Why do some kids seem to regress over the summer while others zoom ahead? Changes in routine, unfamiliar activities, food, faces, places, and sounds…...

July 14, 2011

8 July 2011, Autism, Feeding Disorders, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Here is a video that has been traveling the “Viral Video Circuit.” Any of you who have elementary or middle school aged children might know have had Parry Gripp’s music stuck in your head! (Do you like Waffles?) We thought it might…...

July 13, 2011

ABOUT THIS SITE: The information below was extracted from the Stuttering Home Page by the SID4 Schools Task Force (Susan Cochrane (chair), Kristin Chmela, Leslie Furmanski, Nancy Ribbler, Glenn Tellis, and Vickie Williams) and Judy Kuster as links especially relevant to school-based…...

July 13, 2011

15 July 2011, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

By: Jessie Koller copyright 2011. This blog post has been reprinted with express permission of the author as it appeared on her blog PlayCreateExplore I had a small plastic Geoboard when I was a kid that I just loved to play with!…...