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Speech, occupational, physical, and feeding therapy bookmarks from around the web

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Assessing Children's Knowledge of Multiple Meaning Words

Knowledge of multiple meaning words is important for oral and written communication. This research concerned the assessment of such knowledge. Elementary school children with language-learning diff...

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

AAC is used by people who, some or all of the time, cannot rely on their speech.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Development Disorder

Psychosocial interventions that are effective in reducing core symptoms and improving adaptive skills and functioning are available, but they are very resource intensive. Increased evidence on...

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Gait and Balance Training

The objective of Physical and Occupational Therapy is to restore lost or restricted range of motion, muscle strength, balance, muscle endurance and function that may be compromised due to surgery, ...

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Bilateral Coordination Activities

These bilateral coordination activities are bilateral movement strategies to help kids demonstrate bimanual coordination skills.

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Your Child’s Early Development is a Journey

Skills such as taking the first step, smiling for the first time, and waving “bye-bye” are called developmental milestones. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act, and move....

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Eating, Sleeping and Moving Recommendations In Clinical Practice Guidelines For Paediatric Depression: Umbrella Review

Depression is mental health disease affecting large portions of the world. It also an increasingly rising topic in youths. This article gives exercise recommendations that could aid the children su...

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Echolalia and Its Role In Gestalt Language Acquisition

This view of gestalt language acquisition and the role of echolalia in individuals with ASD is reflected in assessment procedures (e.g., assessing communicative function of echolalia) and treatment...

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Nutritional and Activity Recommendations For the Child With Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obesity With Consideration of Food Insecurity: An Obesity Medical Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Stat...

Obesity rates has been gradually increasing over the last few decades. Many reports of lifelong obesity start as early as childhood. This article identifies the potential causes and aid.

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Feeding Therapy (and Picky Eating)

There are many reasons why a child can have difficulty with feeding. At Sensory Kids we look at the whole picture, taking in your child’s unique needs and strengths and your family routines and pri...

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The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting For Learning In the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults

In a recent EEG study, Van der Meer and Van der Weel (2017) found that drawing by hand activated larger networks in the brain compared to typewriting and concluded that the involvement of fine hand...

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Understanding Intervention For (C)APD: As Easy As A-B-C

Poor (central) auditory processing may manifest behaviorally in a variety of ways, including deficient academic performance, impaired communication, and altered sense of self. A is for Activities,...

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Teachers’ Opinions Regarding the Symptoms of Central Auditory Processing Disorder In Children With Reading and Writing Difficulties

The study reported on here aimed to investigate whether CAPD symptoms were underlying to reading and writing difficulty. It was detected that children with CAPD symptoms had a significant disadvant...

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Redefining Auditory Processing Disorder

Often, treatment for APD and receptive language and comprehension may be the same. Specific remediation doesn’t exist for the perceptual processing skills (such as dichotic listening) that are asse...

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Physical Therapy and Exercise

Physical therapists are movement experts who can develop a safe individualized exercise plan for you, whether your goal is to manage your weight or combat the effects of conditions such as obesity and

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Medicare Guidelines For Group Therapy

Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 15 230-Practice of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology A. Group Therapy Services. Contractors pay for outpatient physic...

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How and Why to Teach Categories in Speech Therapy

Categories in speech therapy! Categories are a foundation for how we learn, relate, store, and recall words. Discover speech therapy activities and more.

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How and Why to Teach Negation in Speech Therapy

Teaching negation in speech therapy! Negatives are a difficult concept to teach and learn but are critical to a child's ability to communicate. 

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Idioms and Speech and Language Therapy

For most of us, idioms are something we pick up naturally as we go through life, but for others, it can be a struggle to understand these seemingly random strings of words.

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Milestone Moments

These developmental milestones show what most children (75% or more) can do by each age. Subject matter experts selected these milestones based on available data and expert consensus.

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Effects of Exercise On Cognitive Performance In Children and Adolescents With ADHD: Potential Mechanisms and Evidence-Based Recommendations

ADHD affects a high number of youth every year. This article keeps that in mind and assesses the effects that physical exercise will have on youths dealing with ADHD.

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Why Systematic Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Instruction Constitute An Educational Hazard

In this article, Frank Smith argues that "systematic" phonics instruction doesn't help and can interfere with learning to read.

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Exercise Interventions In Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care: An Overview of the Evidence and Recommendations For Implementation

There are many different layers to the concept of health. This article goes in depth to show evidence supporting exercise for mental health.

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Handwriting Development, Competency, and Intervention

Handwriting difficulties may be the result of intrinsic factors such as poor component skills, extrinsic considerations such as academic environment and biomechanics. Developmental Stages of Han...

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Physical Activity At Child Care Settings: Review and Research Recommendations

Some of the most important milestones in the timeline of physical health are taken within a child's first few years of ambulation. The article studies the effects that physical activity has on chil...

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