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Worth Repeating: Children’s Speech Sound Disorders: Questions And Answers

July 23, 2014

25 July 2014, Article, Newsletter, SLP

by Caroline Bowen Caroline Bowen PhD provides speech-language pathology information and resources for consumers, professionals and students. We thank Dr. Bowen for explicitly allowing us to link to her articles.They are all found on her Website Speech is the spoken medium of…...

July 23, 2014

25 July 2014, News, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: A therapist applicant, of ours, Angela Benfield, has asked us for help to find SLP, OT, PTs who would be interested in participating in a survey being conducted for her dissertation. The survey will ask you to answer questions about…...

July 23, 2014

25 July 2014, Executive Function, Music Therapy, Newsletter

[Source: Mind Shift] by George Hicks, WBUR CommonHealth Blog Remember “Mozart Makes You Smarter”? A 1993 study of college students showed them performing better on spatial reasoning tests after listening to a Mozart sonata. That led to claims that listening to Mozart temporarily increases…...

July 22, 2014

25 July 2014, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Thank You to Smart Apps for Special Needs for recommending these great, free “Would You Rather” conversation starter cards on the Measured Mom blog. These cards are perfect for carryover pragmatic language work , reasoning, and conversation practice and are ideal…...

July 22, 2014

25 July 2014, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

by: The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America (CASANA) The Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America (CASANA) has written a fantastic “start guide” for Speech-Language Pathologists looking to learn more about Childhood Apraxia of Speech. We highly recommend it and…...

July 21, 2014

25 July 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] Teachers-in-training have long been taught that fourth grade is when students stop learning to read and start reading to learn. But a new Dartmouth study in the journal Developmental Science tested the theory by analyzing brain waves and found that fourth-graders…...

July 21, 2014

25 July 2014, News of the Week, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: I dare you not to grin from ear to ear! [Source: USA Today] ‘I got it. I got it. I got it! Kayden Kinckle conveys such determination in a viral video posted to YouTube on July 4 of himself learning…...

ADHD and Handwriting

July 17, 2014

18 July 2014, ADHD, Handwriting, News, Newsletter

[Source: Journal of Attention Disorders via Your Therapy Source] Journal of Attention Disorders published research on kinematically characterizing the handwriting of 14 boys with ADHD-combined type and 14 typically developing boys. The boys wrote a series of four cursive letter ‘l’s using a…...

July 16, 2014

18 July 2014, Article, Articulation, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Developmental Phonological Disorders] I am writing to address a specific question that has come up: in order to be effective when treating an “articulation disorder” how many trials should the SLP elicit from the client per treatment session? This is an…...

July 16, 2014

18 July 2014, Article, Autism, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: Thank You to Ann Purcell Best of the School-Based Speech and Language Therapy Group on Facebook for the link to this excerpt. Diagnosis is never an easy answer. What do YOU think of this article. [Source: Salon.com] by Enrico Gnaulati PhD…...