As I live in Florida, this informative blog from SLP Pamela Rowe who has a private practice in the Orlando area caught my attention recently.   Seems there has been a couple of email scams circulating that are targeting private practice.  One of the scenarios involves a proposed family who lives abroad but is interested in ...

As my year as your peds blogger comes to a close, I thought I would give you a rundown of the top 5 most popular posts.   5.  Weighing in at the fifth spot was the final update on the DSM-5 due out next May: SPD Excluded from DSM-5. 4. The AJOT published study on Speed and Legibility with Pencil Grasp had some surprising ...

     Starting tomorrow I am taking over the full case load for fieldwork.  I am more excited than nervous.  I’ve been seeing these kids for 6 weeks now and I am very comfortable working with them.  I’m excited to be on my own and implement some of my own ideas into treatment.  I’ve spent the day working up ...

     This week I finally started feeling like a therapist.  I have been taking the lead in most of the sessions and have even been left alone to run a few sessions on my own.  I have come up with the majority of the interventions and am currently writing all of the notes.  It’s pretty exciting!  I’ve been ...

     It is amazing to me how much of my experience teaching preschool is helping me with my pediatric placement. Not only has it helped me in relating to the children, but it’s helping me come up with activities as well. This weekend I decided to take it upon myself to come up with some new activities to do with the kids. At ...

Tomorrow I start my 3rd transition in this fieldwork as the school year starts. The first part of this fieldwork was summer school and for the past two weeks I have been working on the residential units, as you may remember I am working at a private school for children with psychiatric disorders with a residential component for children ...

Tere Bowen Irish wrote a powerful guest editorial for Advance last week on the importance of tummy time that is well worth reading (or re-reading!).   Entitled Back to Sleep Tummy to Play  (Advance  8/1/12) she recaps some of the sobering statistics of the amount of time babies from birth to 2 now spend in a car seat (500 hours ...

For the next few weeks many of us will be glued to our televisions (and laptops and tablets!) to view the Summer Olympic Games held in London.  In the spirit of the games this innovative idea was too cute to pass up. Check out this SPORTOS clip and I think you will agree. These blocks look like just the thing to work on fine motor/visual ...

Recently I heard from two of my OT friends who each have their own private pediatric practices in two different parts of the country.  Both have owned and managed their clinics successfully for many years. One is pondering a possible career change with a shift away from the everyday demands of keeping up with a clinical practice, while the ...

I am often asked if I know of any good grant opportunities specific to kids with special needs. My wish would be to have a full time grant researcher/writer at my fingertips as both searching for then applying for funds can be a daunting task.  For now, this concept will have to stay as just that...a wish, but I did come across a couple of ...