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Digital Magazine from Your Therapy Source Inc November 2009
Here is our latest issue of a digital pediatric occupational and physical therapy monthly magazine. If you can not view it below you can download a pdf copy.
New Website: Autism 360
Autism360 is a new website where you can share and learn about others with autism. It is a free service that matches a profile of someone with autism with similar people with autism and what types of treatment worked for them. You can track medical treatments and outcomes on the website. Essentially, it is an […]
Amazing Visual Memory!
Here is a video from the CBS Early Show on an artist with autism who has a photographic memory for architecture. This is true talent. (PS – Have to mention this: be sure to check out his pencil grasp. Just goes to show you that as long as the grasp works for you leave it […]
Financial Aid for Occupational Therapists
Here is an informative post that was suggested to share – it is a large collection of fellowships and scholarships for people who want to study occupational therapy. The post can be found at http://blog.onlinecollegeguru.com/health-care/financial-aid-for-occupational-therapists/
New Option for Augmentative Communication
Came across this new tool for augmentative communication called Tap2Talk. Seems like a nice alternative for augmentative communication. Watch the video for how it works. The positive features are: the price point, no Internet access is required, cool age appropriate tool and you can put in your own pictures and voice. One negative is that […]
Handwriting Standards
Here is an interesting and informative website for any therapists who work on handwriting skills. Handwriting without Tears has created a website on handwriting standards. It includes a document with handwriting standards by grade level. In addition, you can look up standards by your state as well. There is also some (not much) research quoted […]
Upper Extremity Activity in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology published research on 23 children (age range 8-18 years old) with cerebral palsy (21 hemiplegia and 2 spastic diplegia). The purpose of the study was to determine a relationship between muscle strength, tone and range of motion and functional hand skills. The results indicated that active supination range, strength and […]
Great Activity Idea for Fine Motor Skill Development – Fingarings
I just finished reading about this creative activity idea in the current issue of Advance for OT’s. The article, written by Cumba Siegler OTR/L, explains how to create “fingarings” out of Sculpty clay. She describes how to create rings for the fingers out of clay. She then offers several activity suggestions for the “fingarings”. This […]
Environmental Changes to Physical Spaces in Schools
A researcher from NJIT, Architect B. Lynn Hutchings, offers suggestions for schools to make changes to the physical lay out of buildings to accommodate for students with disabilities. Some of her suggestions are: 1. Inter-disperse related services such as speech, occupational and physical therapy throughout the school 2. Auditoriums should have ramped aisles and stages. […]
Robots and Writing
Found out about this great article on writing and robots from @Pediastaff on Twitter. A young boy with dyspraxia has been testing a robotic arm to imnprove his visual motor skills. Read this story from the BBC News