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Infections Might Raise Stroke Risk in Children: Study

February 2, 2012

3 February 2012, News, Newsletter, Pediatric Stroke

[Source: HealthDay] Many children who suffer a stroke had some sort of an infection in the days leading up to the stroke, a new study says. However, childhood stroke is rare and parents shouldn’t be unduly alarmed by these findings, the…...

February 1, 2012

3 February 2012, News, Newsletter

Sue joined PediaStaff in June 2007 and is the New Applicant Career Services Team Leader. Her primary responsibility is working with, and managing the flow of new therapy applicants to PediaStaff to facilitate the placement process. She is also the friendly…...

February 1, 2012

3 February 2012, Autism, Book, Newsletter

Edited By: Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Jennifer Byde Myers, Liz Ditz, Emily Willingham, and Carol Greenburg Reviewed By: By Lee A. Wilkinson, PhD, NCSP Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder with no known cause or cure. Unfortunately, families are often exposed to unsubstantiated,…...

January 31, 2012

3 February 2012, News, Newsletter, OT, Psychology

[Source: Time/Healthland] Preschool children whose moms are loving and nurturing have a larger hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in learning, memory and stress response, when they reach school age, a new study finds. “It is to our knowledge the first…...

January 31, 2012

2012, 3 February, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Valentine’s Day is around the corner! Here are our two favorite ideas that have been extremely popular! Here is the original post for Conversation Heart Writing from Teaching with TLC Here is the original post for the Footprint Valentine Heart from the…...

January 30, 2012

3 February 2012, Language, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Medicical Express] Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain’s cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received — a place famously known as Wernicke’s area after the German neurologist who proposed…...

January 30, 2012

3 February 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Daily Mail] Teaching children with autism to ‘talk things through’ in their heads may help them solve tricky day-to-day tasks and could increase the chances of them living independent lives when they grow up, say scientists. Psychologists who studied adults with…...

January 30, 2012

Last week we brought you a storyabout a 12 girls (now as many as 16 students) at a school in New York who have mysteriously developed tics and other bizarre symptoms. This past week, both the National Institutes of Health and environmental…...

January 30, 2012

3 February 2012, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: The Atlantic] Thanks to Loren Shlaes of the Pediatric OT blog for sending us the link to this article. While I don’t think anyone would advocate doing away with car seats, the article brings up some good points. What do you…...

January 27, 2012

27 January 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Columbia Spectator via The Autism News] Researchers at Columbia may be making strides toward understanding the neurological disorder of autism–starting with, of all places, the intestine, according to a recent study. Dr. Brent Williams, an associate research scientist from the Mailman…...