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January 28, 2013

1 February 2013, Music Therapy, Newsletter, OT

By: Anne Zachry, PhD, OTR/L As an OT, I’m always looking for different ideas and techniques to add to my therapy “toolbox,” and I recently discovered an amazing music therapy website that provides a ton of wonderful tips, suggestions, and videos! Ryan…...

January 24, 2013

25 January 2013, ABA, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] Despite a requirement that insurers start covering behavioral health treatment for individuals and small groups, a new analysis suggests less than half of states plan to include autism therapy. Many autism advocates were hopeful when the Affordable Care Act…...

January 24, 2013

25 January 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Speech Pathology Group: Children’s Services International] Over the years, Speech Pathology Group: Children’s Services International (SPG: CSI) and the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina have combined their efforts to establish and implement a ground-breaking program – The Bosnia Autism Project. Our mission has…...

January 24, 2013

25 January 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] New research at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that children begin to show signs of higher-level thinking skills as young as age 4 ½. Researchers have previously attributed higher-order thinking…...

January 24, 2013

25 January 2013, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] While autism clearly runs in some families, few inherited genetic causes have been found. A major reason is that these causes are so varied that it’s hard to find enough people with a given mutation to establish a clear…...

January 23, 2013

25 January 2013, Hearing Loss, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] L.A.-based House Research Institute and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given final approval to begin a clinical trial of an Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) procedure for children. The…...

January 23, 2013

25 January 2014, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] A 1 year old baby participates in a language test at UW’s Institute for Learning and Brain Science. (Image Credit: UW) Using a brain-imaging technique that examines the entire infant brain, researchers have found that the anatomy of…...

January 22, 2013

25 January 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital are challenging the way pediatric neurologists think about brain injury in the pre-term infant. In a study published online in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the OHSU Doernbecher researchers…...

Emotional Intelligence Mapped in Brain

January 22, 2013

25 January 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A new study of 152 Vietnam veterans with combat-related brain injuries offers the first detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence — the ability to process emotional information and navigate the social world. The study…...

January 22, 2013

Newsletter, 25 January 2013, SLP, Speech Sounds, Tip or Resource

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