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Literacy Pack: Hiking Day

April 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
A young girl and her family go hiking up a nearby mountain for the very first time. As they climb up and up the path, they see everything from a friendly toad to a prickly porcupine, tall leafy trees to tiny red berries. Anne Rockwell and her daughter, artist Lizzy Rockwell, celebrate a day the little girl will never forget, especially when she reaches the mountain’s summit. With simple, lyrical text and bright illustrations that jump off the page, Hiking Day brings the joys of spending an afternoon outdoors to life.
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Is Acute Solid Food Aversion a Proxy for COVID-19–Related Olfactory and Gustatory Dysfunction? (2021)

April 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
As the pandemic persists, we continue to learn about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Early on, we learned that olfactory and gustatory dysfunction (OGD), was a prevalent symptom of infection. This article investigates OGD in children, and acute solid food aversion following COVID-19 infection.Recent research reports that OGD is prevalent in ~38% of COVID-19 infections. […]
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Complex Cases in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

March 6, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This course will review multiple complex cases in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) setting, specifically the speech language pathologist’s role and special considerations of this particular treatment setting. Attention to critical thinking skills and working on a team in a high-stress environment will be explored.
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Literacy Pack: One Duck Stuck

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Can two fish, tails going swish, help? Will three moose, munching on spruce, be able to pull the unlucky duck out of the muck? Perfectly sized for small hands, this counting rhyme is a feast of sounds and numbers that will have young listeners scrambling to join the slippy, sloppy fun!
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Cultural Relevance and Informal Reading Inventory Performance: African-American Primary and Middle School Students (2018)

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This study was prompted by educators noticing a discrepancy between their students’ performance on standardized assessment tools and their performance on lessons in the classroom. Students appeared to perform better on the texts provided in the classroom, especially when they appeared culturally relevant to the students’ lives. To explore this further, researchers reviewed current research […]
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Feeding Infants with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD)

February 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course will include information on the incidence of developmental co-morbidities in infants with CHD, factors related to CHD that impact pre-operative and post-operative feeding ability, the components of a feeding evaluation and strategies that assist infants with feeding difficulty, IDDSI and the impact of thickening on feeding and flow rate, and considerations for safe […]
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