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Fine Motor Skills for Children With Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents And Professionals

January 1, 2008

The updated and expanded 2nd edition of “Fine Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome” continues to be a popular, practical guide to understanding fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome and helping them develop these skills from birth through early…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Down Syndrome, SLP

This article can be found on Down Syndrome Online. Down Syndrome Online offers comprehensive information about Down syndrome, including articles, books and scientific papers. Significant progress is being made in understanding some of the main reasons why children with intellectual disabilities, and particularly children…...

January 1, 2008

OT, PT, School Psych, SLP, TBI, Video

Source: Brainline.org] Used with permission from BrainLine.org, a WETA website. http://www.brainline.org. Tools and Resources for Educators Working with Kids with TBI Learn about the tools out there — from traumatic brain injury 101-type information to specifics on how to develop a student’s individualized…...

January 1, 2008

Article, SLP

Secord, W. (2007, May 29). The ASHA Leader. Speech-language pathologists in a leadership capacity can profoundly influence school-based practice. I found this out personally more than 25 years ago when taking a short course at an ASHA Convention. The professor teaching that…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Down Syndrome, SLP

All material Copyright © May 2009 The Down Syndrome Centre Reprinted with the express permission of the The Down Syndrome Centre as originally published on their website. By: Marinet vanVuren Marinet vanVuren is a South African born Speech and Language Therapist. For the past…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Autism, SLP

Ervin, M. (2003, April 29). The ASHA Leader. Imagine what it means for a parent day in and day out, when spoken language is absent, when even pointing, smiling, and nodding are rare. There may be little communication at all other than…...

January 1, 2008

Book, IEP, OT

Learning Re-enabled is designed to help therapists, teachers, and parents understand the learning disabled child. The author, through extensive professional experience and a special devotion to learning disabled children, developed this book to be a resource for professionals and parents as they…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Literacy, SLP

Spracher, M. (2000, April 25). The ASHA Leader. A school-based speech-language pathologist is reading with a second grader to help develop her vocabulary. The story ends. The SLP asks the child to read back key words—but she can’t. What should the SLP…...

January 1, 2008

Down Syndrome, Video

Sarah Palin is a role model to many parents of children with Down Syndrome. As Katie Couric reports, the majority of parents that learn of the disorder early choose to terminate the pregnancy....

January 1, 2008

Article, Literacy, SLP

Westby, C. (2005, September 27). The ASHA Leader. The years 2003-2012 are the United Nations’ Literacy Decade. The theme for the decade is “Literacy as Freedom.” In the 21st century, persons without literacy cannot be truly free. In the world, there are…...