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SLP to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to Benefit Autism

June 2, 2010

4 June 2010, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

his story ran in the most recent ASHA Leader. We reprint it for you here to inspire you. [Source: ASHA Leader] by Kellie Rowden-Racette Name: Jackie Knechtel, MA, CCC-SLP Job title: Pediatric speech-language pathologist in New York. Her practice, Self Expressions, serves…...

May 28, 2010

28 May 2010, Article, Autism, Newsletter, OT, Parental Involvement, PT, Q&A, SLP

By: Mae Wilkinson, Editor: Autism is Not the Boss Q: Why aren’t more parents engaged in supporting therapy goals at home? A: I think most parents would like to be more engaged in supporting their children’s therapy goals at home, but they…...

Prime Time Television Tackles Autism

May 27, 2010

28 May 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: CNN] (CNN) — In a scene from NBC’s “Parenthood,” two parents are attempting to get their 8-year-old son ready for school. The child insists on wearing a pirate costume to class, again. His father asks him to take it off so…...

Scanning Babies for Autism

May 26, 2010

28 May 2010, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: The Wall Street Journal] By taking scans of sleeping children, researchers are discovering what occurs in the brains of babies and young children with autism. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to peer at images of the children’s brains, researchers…...

May 26, 2010

28 May 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Ottawa Citizen] Higher testosterone levels in unborn babies can lead to permanent changes in the brain that contribute to the development of autistic traits, new research suggests. According to British psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, autism is the result of an “extreme male…...

May 24, 2010

28 May 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: CNN] — Emerson Donnell III had heard that 80 percent of marriages that include a child with autism end in divorce. And he felt certain it would happen to him. About two years after the birth of his son, he found…...

Speech Therapy Idea: Penny Toss

May 24, 2010

28 May 2010, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Special Thanks to Becky Wanka at Speech Therapy Ideas for this Week’s Therapy Idea! Please support our contributors and visit the Speech Therapy Idea’s website or subscribe to Becky’s Blog! Penny Toss Need a fun way to get your clients to produce…...

May 24, 2010

28 May 2010, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource, Video

Special Thanks to Margaret Rice of Your Therapy Source for this week’s Therapy Idea! Please support our contributors and visit her website today! dup 020519...

May 21, 2010

21 May 2010, Article, Early Intervention, Hearing Loss, Newsletter, SLP

Robbins, A. (2009, March 24). The ASHA Leader. Although school-based speech-language pathologists are essential to the educational success of children with cochlear implants (CIs), results from the Watson and Martin (1999) and Iverson (2005) surveys show that school-based SLPs generally perceive their…...

May 21, 2010

21 May 2010, Article, Hearing Loss, Newsletter, SLP

By: Dr. Judith Gravel Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA NB: This article is written for the parents of children who have Hearing Loss and related problems. We publish it here because we know that therapists like to give their client’s caregivers…...