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Focus on Bilingualism: When Culture and Therapy Clash

April 23, 2013

Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

By: Lucy Windevoxhel, M.S., CCC-SLP When I began my first job as a speech-language pathologist one of my monolingual, monocultural colleagues asked me why Hispanics gave their children milk in a bottle well into their preschool years. I was certainly offended by…...

April 23, 2013

26 April 2013, Newsletter, SLP

Here is a beautifully done bingo game from our friend, Ruth Morgan of Chapel Hill Snippets! Please enjoy “Springtime Preposition Bingo” You can download it in Boardmaker and in PDF format from Chapel Hill Snippets! ...

April 22, 2013

26 April 2013, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] People with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often have trouble communicating and interacting with others because they process language, facial expressions and social cues differently. Previously, researchers found that propranolol, a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure,…...

April 22, 2013

[Source: Science Daily] A new study presented today at the 48th Annual American Neurotology Society spring meeting is challenging a long held belief among speech therapists and audiologists that bad behavior in young children with hearing implants is an indicator of device…...

April 18, 2013

19 April 2013, Newsletter, Social Skills

by Tasia Markoff, lifehiswayblog.wordpress.com Reprinted with permission of the Author as it appeared on the Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism Last week Nick’s science teacher mentioned in an email that he was concerned that Nick is isolating himself socially. The other kids…...

April 18, 2013

19 April 2013, Newsletter, Receptive Language, SLP

With over 700 repins combined (and counting), please check out ‘Ms. Lane’s SLP Materials’ newest Receptive Language worksheets! They are all free! Receptive Language: Understanding “Not Receptive Language: Understanding “Is” and “Is Not” Receptive Language “Negation Concepts” Receptive Language “Is or Not…...

April 18, 2013

19 April 2013, Newsletter

Editor’s Note: Here is something fun to brighten up your day that will also take you back to your comparative cognition studies! Ronan is a now four-year-old sea lion who knows how — disputing long-held notions that only animals who can mimic…...

April 17, 2013

19 April 2013, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Newsletter

All material Copyright © Apraxia-Kids.org Reprinted with the express permission of Apraxia-Kids as originally published on their website. By: Nancy Kaufman, M.A., CCC-SLP Children with childhood apraxia of speech cannot easily execute and/or coordinate oral-motor movements to combine the consonants and vowels…...

April 17, 2013

19 April 2013, Article, Newsletter, OT, SLP

Thanks to Reading Rockets for highlighting this story on their website [Source: Atlantic Monthly] by Hanna Rosen On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps for phones and tablets gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey,…...

April 17, 2013

19 April 2013, News, Newsletter, RTI

[Source: Education Week; On Special Education] More than half of the states allow, or require, response to intervention to be used as a method to evaluate if students have specific learning disabilities. But many states and districts do not have a way…...