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Some Cerebral Palsy Caused by a Genetic Mutation

February 18, 2015

20 February 2015, Cerebral Palsy, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] An international research group led by a team at the University of Adelaide has made what they believe could be the biggest discovery into cerebral palsy in 20 years. Emeritus Professor Alastair MacLennan (University of Adelaide) with Matthew Reinertsen, who…...

February 18, 2015

20 February 2015, Deafness, Hearing Impaired, Hearing Loss, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Los Angeles research team studies brain plasticity, auditory brainstem implant safety in NIH-backed clinical trial A multi-institutional team of hearing and communication experts led by the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) is…...

February 18, 2015

20 February 2015, Newsletter, SLP. Tip or Resource

[Source: No Time for Flash Cards] Rhyming is one of my favorite literacy skills to work on with children because it’s fun and rhyming is a vital part of literacy development. When children rhyme they play sounds and apply their abilities to…...

February 18, 2015

20 February 2015, Newsletter, School Nurse

[Source: NASN.org] After the declaration that measles had been eradicated in the US, the disease is making a comeback. In this segment, we offer prevention tips to be shared with teachers, parents and students. Listen to the Broadcast on NASN.org ...

February 17, 2015

20 February 2015, Newsletter, OT, School Psych, SLP

[Source Medical News Today] Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders — autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and Specific Language Impairment — appear to compensate for dysfunction by relying on a single powerful and nimble system in the brain known as declarative memory. This hypothesis…...

February 17, 2015

[Source: Speech Dudes] When developing a vocabulary set for an augmented and alternative communication (AAC) system – or indeed when deciding on what vocabulary to teach anyone – one of the most fundamental of measures you can use is frequency count; how often…...

February 17, 2015

20 February 2015, Autism, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] A spit test may one day be able to diagnose autism according to researchers at Clarkson University and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Scientists at the universities have published the first study showing that children with…...

February 16, 2015

20 February 2015, Newsletter, OT, SLP

[Source: I Can Teach My Child] Word families can be a beneficial component in your teaching-your-child-to-read toolbox. To put it simply, word families are words that rhyme. Teaching children word families is a phonemic awareness activity that helps children see patterns in…...

February 16, 2015

News of the Week, Newsletter, OT, PT

[Source: Science Daily] Researchers in public health have reported in the first broad study in the United States the frequency of two muscle-weakness disorders that strike mostly boys: Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy. The research team, led by the University…...

February 16, 2015

20 February 2015, Newsletter, OT, School Psych, SLP

by Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP Frequently, I see a variation of the following scenario on many speech and language forums. The SLP is seeing a client with speech and/or language deficits in either school setting or private practice, who is having some kind…...