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'The King's Speech' Likely to Break Stuttering Stereotypes – More Stuttering in the News: ABC

November 30, 2010

3 December 2010, News, Newsletter, Stuttering

[Source: ABC News 20/20] At 32, Steven Kaufman finally has come to terms with the stuttering that was so often in the way when he was growing up, although he sometimes still feels that he’s spinning his wheels in a snow bank…...

Stuttering in the News – USA Today

November 30, 2010

3 December 2010, News, Newsletter, Stuttering

M-m-m-my n-n-n-n-name i-i-i-is … One little consonant or vowel. When you stutter, that’s all that stands between you and total humiliation. Or for some, nothing comes out at all, called “a block.” Derek Wood is no stranger to that scenario. “Still, to…...

November 29, 2010

Here is a fine motor project that encourages fine motor skill practice and muscle strengthening of the fingers. Thank you to Your TherapySource.com for this great activity. For more activities, visit Your TherapySource.com for more therapy activity ideas....

November 29, 2010

3 December 2010, News, Physical Fitness, PT

[Source: Medical News Today] Contrary to popular belief, weight training can be safe and good for children, and does not make them short, dumpy and susceptible to weak joints and injuries for the rest of their lives. An article published in the…...

November 29, 2010

3 December 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Brandeis Magazine] In 1994, Liane Kupferberg Carter ’76 and her husband found themselves watching as a team of unsmiling experts at a New York teaching hospital poked, prodded and measured their toddler son, Mickey. Carter, a professional writer, recalled in her…...

More Bullying Resources in the News

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Bullying, News, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: CNN.com] Editor’s Note: We realize that we already featured a list of Bullying Resources in a recent issue. However, CNN has recently completed a big campaign in conjunction with “Stop Bullying Now,” so we thought we would also bring you their…...

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Article, Autism, Newsletter, SLP

Editor’s Note: Shareka just posted an update to this case study. You can find the link to the second blog post about “Josh” below By: Shareka Bentham, SLT copyright 2010. Shareka Bentham, SLT This blog post has been reprinted with express permission…...

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer and Washington Post] At 8 p.m. Saturday, Southwest Airlines Flight 2149 was poised to push back from the gate. Flight attendants gave fasten-seat-belt instructions, and First Officer Peter Hayes announced, “There’s 25 minutes of flight time until we…...

Guest Blog: A Myriad of Materials

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Article, Newsletter, SLP

By: Heather Greenwood copyright 2010, ITeach2Talk. Reprinted with the permission of the author as appeared on her blog site As any speech-language pathologist and SLP student knows, materials that we use for therapy can be quite costly. During my online adventures traveling…...

November 22, 2010

. 6 May 2022, Article, Newsletter, School Psych

By: Shahal Rozenblatt, Ph.D., Clinical Neuropsychologist People are highly complex organisms whose problems are of equal complexity. In order to effectively treat the problems with which people present, we need to have a way of understanding the nature of this complexity, breaking…...