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Case Study: Pediatric Feeding Tube Weaning

June 22, 2011

24 June 2011, Article, Feeding Disorders, Feeding Issues, Newsletter

By: Tracy Huppert, MEd CCC-SLP, Spectrum Pediatrics, LLC Introduction Based on research, it has been found that infants and children born preterm and/or at-risk are often suffering from emotional, behavioral, and self-regulation disturbances. These disturbances include long-term feeding tube dependency, feeding disorders,…...

June 22, 2011

24 June 2011, Autism, Book, Newsletter

Book By: Jennie Harding Reviewed By: Sunita Murty, M.S. OTR/L Published/Produced By: Sensory World “Ellie Bean the Drama Queen” by Jennie Harding is a cute book for children and adults offering insight into Ellie’s dramatic behaviors. Her over-reactive behaviors towards seemingly minor…...

June 21, 2011

24 June 2011, Article, Dyscalculia, Newsletter

[Source: NBC] We’re having a Theo Huxtable moment (re: season 6, episode 5), following the Friday release of a Baltimore-based study that pinpoints core cognitive differences between students who sometimes struggle with math and those who have dyscalculia, a severe mathematical learning…...

June 20, 2011

24 June 2011, Article, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] A leading pediatricians’ group recommends that doctors routinely screen all kids for autism, but a provocative new study released Monday questions the practice arguing that it may in fact do more harm than good. Researchers behind the study published…...

June 20, 2011

24 June 2011, Article, Handwriting, Newsletter, OT

[Source: The Los Angleles Times] Children are texting, tapping and typing on keyboards more than ever, leaving less time to master that old-fashioned skill known as handwriting. So will the three “T’s” replace a building block of education? It’s not likely. The…...

June 20, 2011

24 June 2011, Article, Newsletter, Stuttering

By: E. Charles Healey, Lisa Scott Trautman, and James Panico [Source: MNSU.edu] Editor’s Note: Thank you to Judith Kuster of MSU for calling our attention to this article that we might share the link with you here. A basic component of most…...

June 16, 2011

17 June 2011, News, Newsletter, OT

[Source: Medical XPress.com] Researchers from Indiana University and Princeton, in a paper published in Cognition, describe two experiments they conducted that appear to show reading retention improves when fonts that are considered harder to read are used. In the study, as described…...

Guest Blog: Eliciting Sounds-SH and CH

June 15, 2011

17 June 2011, Article, Articulation, Newsletter, SLP

By: Leah Musgrave and Dean Trout This blog post is reprinted here with express permission of the authors as it appeared on their 2 Gals Talk About Speech Therapy Blog Good Morning Everyone! Today we will look at a few techniques and…...

June 15, 2011

17 June 2011, News, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] Most moms want their newborns to be tested for fragile X syndrome, but a significant number of parents remain reluctant to find out if their children have the disability, new research suggests. In a study of more 2,000 mothers…...

June 14, 2011

17 June 2011, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Special Thanks to Therapy Fun Zone for this Activity of the Week. Please support our contributors and visit Therapy Fun Zone I saw this on a preschool activity site, and saw a lot of therapy potential in it. You can have a…...