Early Intervention Speech Therapy Interview with CASANA’s Sharon Gretz
Interview With: Sharon Gretz, MEd, on Childhood Apraxia of Speech By: Stephanie Bruno Sharon Gretz is the founder and current executive director of the Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North...
View ArticleMore Preschool Could Benefit Young Kids
[Source: Time] New research suggests that young kids could benefit from more time around their peers in a classroom setting. A new study released Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical...
View ArticleResource of the Week: Speech Book Shelf
Here is a fantastic resource for SLPs, parents and teachers. Speech Book Shelf is brought to you by the SLPs down under at Busy Bugs Kits. They have grouped hundreds of well known picture books...
View ArticleDelay Cutting Umbilical Cord Two Minutes for Better Newborn Development
[Source: Science Daily] A study conducted by University of Granada scientists (from the Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments) and from the San Cecilio Clinical Hospital (Granada) has...
View ArticleSLP Corner: Best Games for Teaching Preschoolers on the Autism Spectrum
[Source: Play On Words] The more I play games with kids, the more I am a fan for using them to teach so many aspects of communication and language. I just started working with a 4 year-old on the...
View ArticleParents May Be Able to Lower Kids’ Autism Risk
[Source: Time] With the help of videos and trained therapists, parents of at-risk kids may eventually help their toddlers to avoid an autism diagnosis Autism experts still disagree over a lot of...
View ArticleEI Corner: Boosting Education For Babies And Their Parents
[Source: National Public Radio] The Harlem Children’s Zone is a nonprofit known for its innovative, multifaceted approach to ending the cycle to poverty. It’s garnered kudos from President Obama and...
View ArticleEarly Intervention Occupational Therapist – Wilmington, DE
We are searching for an occupational therapist for a full time pediatric, community-based early intervention program in the Wilmington, Delaware. Ideally, the therapist must have one or more years’ of...
View ArticleEI Corner: Why Does EI Look Like “Just Playing?”
Thanks to the Sensory Spectrum for the link to this great article!! [Source: Day 2 Day Parenting via Sensory Spectrum] By: Michelle Searock, SLP Many parents are surprised when their EI speech...
View ArticleEI Activity: Ribbon Box – Baby Play Activity
[Source: Teaching Mama] My baby is really into grabbing and pulling things…especially drawstrings on my jackets! Since he loves things that dangle, I decided to create an ribbon activity box for him to...
View ArticleSLP Corner: Top 5 Parent Handouts for {Preschool} SLPs
by Jenna Rayburn of The Speech Room News Part of my role at our district early childhood center is to complete incoming evaluations for children entering the program. We have about half of our students...
View ArticleEI Corner: DOE and HHS Release Guidance on Including Children with...
[Source: US Dept of Education] The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services today released guidance urging early learning programs to include children with disabilities. The...
View ArticleAre Early Childhood Educators Undervalued?
[Source: Science Daily] With the federal election around the corner, child care has become a major ballot issue. While every party has its own idea of how best to offset the costs of raising children,...
View ArticlePre-K Efforts in Dallas Yielding “Meteoric Lift” in Student Preparedness
[Source: Dallas Morning News] Just a few years ago, only about one in three Dallas kindergartners started school on grade level. Most were up to a year behind their peers, which experts say is...
View ArticleEI Corner: Why I’m Forever Grateful For My Son’s Pediatric Therapist
Editor’s Note: Thank you to PediaStaff’s own staffing consultant Lauren Marino, for sharing this article with us. Love it! [Source: Scary Mommy.com] As my son turns 3 years old and transitions out...
View ArticleNational Task Force Declines to Recommend or Discourage Universal Early...
[Source: Medical News Today] Toddler screening essential for autism detection despite national task force’s reservation Stating that “the evidence is insufficient,” the United States Preventive...
View ArticleEarly Intervention SLP Job – Dover, DE
We are searching for a dedicated pediatric speech therapist for the Dover, DE area who enjoys working in a community based setting treating kids with disabilities. Speech and hearing therapy services...
View ArticleOur Turn: A PediaStaffer Shares Her Pediatric Therapy Story
Editors’s Note: When Lauren, one of our wonderful staffing consultants here at PediaStaff, approached me about writing a blog article about her family’s experience with pediatric therapy, I was very...
View ArticleMultiple Early Intervention SLPs – Hobbs, NM
We are hiring in the eastern edge of the New Mexico-Texas Border town of Hobbs, New Mexico. This little community has a significant number of children on the early intervention list with full...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Corner: Bringing Brain Science to Early Childhood
[Source: The Atlantic.com via Reading Rockets] A group of scholars at Harvard University is spearheading a campaign to make sure the early-childhood programs policymakers put in place to disrupt...
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