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Resource of the Week: Freesound.org – 'The Freesound Project' – featured December 10, 2010

December 10, 2010

10 December 2010, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets Freesound apart from other libraries. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users…...

December 9, 2010

10 December 2010, Article, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Newsletter, OT, SLP

Legler, L. (2007, December 26). The ASHA Leader. An award-winning classroom-based program was developed to save costs and provide classroom-based services to students with Asperger’s syndrome in California’s secondary schools See the full Article HERE...

December 9, 2010

10 December 2010, Article, Down Syndrome, Newsletter, PT

By: Patricia C. Winders, PT Senior Physical Therapist, Down Syndrome Specialist Sie Center for Down Syndrome The Children’s Hospital, Aurora, CO The appropriate goal of physical therapy for children with Down syndrome is not to accelerate their rate of gross motor development…...

December 9, 2010

10 December 2010, Article, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter

All material Copyright © November 2010 The Down Syndrome Centre Reprinted with the express permission of the Down Syndrome Centre as originally published on their website. By: Stacy Menz I have been looking at imaginative ways to encourage play and gross motor…...

Guest Blog: How to Teach the SH Sound

December 9, 2010

10 December 2010, Article, Articulation, Newsletter, SLP

By: Heidi Hanks Copyright 2010. Reprinted with the express permission of the author as it appeared on her blog Mommy Speech Therapy Teaching the “SH” sound may seem a little daunting at first, but I think you will find that with these…...

December 9, 2010

10 December 2010, Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ScienceDaily.com] Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we’re listening to. But when it comes to following our own speech, a new brain study from the University…...

December 7, 2010

Autism, News, Newsletter, 10 December 2010

[Source: Disability Scoop] Two Oregon teens took home the nation’s top high school science prize for developing technology that could help children with autism identify emotion in human speech. Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez, both high school juniors from Portland, Ore., will…...

December 7, 2010

Best Careers 2011: Occupational Therapist – As one of the 50 best careers of 2011, this should have strong growth over the next decade The rundown: Whether it’s helping a developmentally challenged toddler learn to follow directions or teaching a man with…...

December 7, 2010

Newsletter, OT, PT, SLP

Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute are recruiting healthy, typically developing children and young adults between the ages of 3 to 20 years to participate in a study investigating the relationship between genes and brain development. This study is being conducted by…...

Traumatic Brain Injury in the News

December 7, 2010

10 December 2010, News, Newsletter, TBI

[Source CBS New York] NEW YORK (CBS 2) — A teenage boy suffered a serious brain injury seven years ago in an accident on New Jersey’s Route 79. Now he’s helping other young people going through similar traumas. It’s his way of…...