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December 13, 2012

14 December 2012, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] About one in ten thousand babies is born with an abnormally small head. The cause for this disorder — which is known as microcephaly — is a defect in the development of the embryonic brain. Children with microcephaly are…...

December 13, 2012

14 December 2012, Autism, Fragile X, News

[Source: Science Daily] Doctors have known for many years that patients with fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, are often also diagnosed with autism. But little has been known about how the two diagnoses are related. Now…...

December 13, 2012

News, Newsletter, 14 December 2012

[Source: Science Daily] Beat induction, the ability to pick up regularity — the beat — from a varying rhythm, is not an ability that rhesus monkeys possess. These are the findings of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the National…...

December 12, 2012

14 December 2012, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Children suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of traumatic events, including child abuse, may benefit from psychological therapies, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. In the first systematic review of PTSD in young people,…...

December 12, 2012

14 December 2012, Article, Newsletter

by Linda Harrison Last night I heard a CBC radio program describing “gamification“, and my mind is buzzing with all the implications and applications of this idea. Gamification is the process of applying gaming principles and design to non-game situations. People have…...

December 12, 2012

14 December 2012, Newsletter, SPD

Source: The SPD Blogger Network] Happy Hanukkah! It’s my kids’ favorite holiday, and we’re getting ourselves ready for eight nights full of celebration. This year, Hanukkah starts at sundown on December 8th, so we’ve just barely had time to change gears from…...

December 12, 2012

14 December 2012, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: Last week, we published our e-book “Essential Social Media Tools for SLPs, in blog hop format. Here is the complete PDF of the book. Please enjoy it with our compliments. The social media world is taking the SLP profession by…...

December 11, 2012

14 December 2012, Behavior, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Both nature and nurture appear to be significant factors in early antisocial behaviors of adopted children, a Wayne State University researcher believes. Christopher Trentacosta, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recently examined…...

December 11, 2012

14 December 2012, AAC, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] The current prototype of the Access4Kids device includes three force-sensitive resistors that measure pressure and convert it into a signal that instructs the tablet. (Credit: Georgia Tech Imagine not being able to touch a touch-screen device. Tablets and smartphones…...

December 11, 2012

14 December 2012, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] A new study published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that autism is associated with reductions in the level of cellular adhesion molecules in the blood, where they play a role in immune function. Cell adhesion molecules are the glue that…...