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Scientists Look to Help Children with Autism Find a Voice – Sensory Integration Therapy in the News

March 1, 2010

5 March 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter, OT, Sensory Motor Skills - Sensory Integration, SLP, Video

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March 1, 2010

Autism, March 2010, News of the Week, Newsletter, Video

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March 1, 2010

Animal Assisted Therapy, Cerebral Palsy, March 2010, News, Newsletter

[Source: The Washington Post] Michelle Brown was apprehensive when her parents talked to her about getting a canine assistant to help her in school. But Sylvia, a golden retriever-yellow Lab mix, has changed her life, 13-year-old Michelle said. “She has changed my…...

February 26, 2010

February 2010, Fine Motor Skills, Handwriting, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT

[Source – the New York Times] NOAH LASCANO, 8, had a problem: His teachers couldn’t read his handwriting. His homework became a frustrating exercise in writing once, and then, at the teacher’s request, writing again, just for legibility. His brother, James, 5,…...

February 26, 2010

February 2010, News, Newsletter, Rett Syndrome

[Source: MIT News] A molecule that promotes brain development could serve as a possible treatment for Rett syndrome, the most common form of autism in girls, according to researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Whitehead Institute for…...

February 12, 2010

February 2010, News, Newsletter, Stuttering

[Source: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, The Stuttering Foundation] Findings suggest common speech problem, in some cases, may actually be an inherited metabolic disorder Stuttering may be the result of a glitch in the day-to-day process by which cellular…...

February 5, 2010

February 2010, News, Newsletter, SLP, Speech Delay

[Source, New York Times, February 8, 2010] There is nothing simple about speech, and there is nothing simple about speech delay — starting with the challenge of diagnosing it. Every pediatrician knows the frustration of trying to quantify the speech and language…...

Selective Mutism in the News

February 5, 2010

5 February 2010, News, Selective Mutism, SLP

Silenced by herself… the little girl who chooses not to speak By NIKKI MURFITT Last updated at 10:03 PM on 30th January 2010 Sitting side by side on a pedalo, John Stanford and his granddaughter Red Jolley, nine,…...

February 5, 2010

Autism, February 2010, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT

February 4, 2010: This week, the British Medical Journal, the Lancet, retracted a twelve year old study published by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. This study is widely credited for spearheading the theory that childhood vaccinations could be causing some cases of autism. Celebrities…...

January 29, 2010

AAC, Article, January 2010, Newsletter, Q&A, SLP

By: Vicki Clarke, MS CCC-SLP and Elisa Sarosi, BS SLPA What is your experience with AAC? I began working with AAC in 1990 in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill and continued through the present. How would you define augmentative communication? Any form…...