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April 27, 2011

Article, Language, Newsletter, Speech Sound Disorders, Stuttering, Vocabulary

By: Kelly Ring-Whiklo, M.Sc., S-LP ( C ) Reprinted with the express permission of the author as it originally appeared on her blog We had beautiful weather over the Easter weekend. It inspired me to get outside and start preparing my garden…...

April 26, 2011

29 April 2011, Cerebral Palsy, News, Newsletter

[Source: Disability Scoop] A Texas woman is outraged after she says her 8-year-old grandson was denied the opportunity to participate in a religious milestone all because he has a developmental disability. Irma Castro spent months preparing her grandson, Kevin, for his first…...

April 26, 2011

29 April 2011, Autism, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: New York Times ‘Arts Beat’ Blog] April is Autism Awareness Month, and given the increase in the number of children with autism spectrum disorders (the rate is in constant dispute, but some estimate that A.S.D. affects as many as 1 in…...

April 25, 2011

29 April 2011, Article, Newsletter, Selective Mutism

By: Joleen Fernald, MS CCC-SLP, Doctoral Student Selective Mutism has been described as a social communication anxiety disorder (The Selective Mutism Group, n.d.). Though its prevalence is considered rare in the DSM-IV (APA, 2004), research by Bergman et al (2002) showed that…...

April 25, 2011

29 April 2011, Article, Newsletter, Physical Fitness, PT

By: Michele Silence, MA, KidFit Balance is a skill necessary for lifelong health. A good sense of balance requires that muscles are able to control posture and keep the body upright. Being on balance is the process of controlling the body’s center…...

April 25, 2011

29 April 2011, Article, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Language, Literacy, Newsletter, Questions, SLP

By: Sandra McKinnis, M.A., CCCSLP Research conducted over the past 38 years has established that reading is not just the visual memory task it was once thought to be. As early as 1972, Kavanaugh and Mattingly in “Language by Ear and by…...

April 22, 2011

Program: PBS NewsHour Episode: Autism’s Causes: Demand for Educational Resources for Children Outstrips Supply For public school systems, the demand for special educational and treatment resources for children with autism often outpaces what is available. In the fourth report in his Autism…...

April 22, 2011

22 April 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: The New York Times] As people streamed into Graceview Baptist Church in Tomball, Tex., early one Saturday morning in January, two armed guards stood prominently just inside the doorway of the sanctuary. Their eyes scanned the room and returned with some…...

April 21, 2011

22 April 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

Photo Credit: phillifan99 [Source: Newswise.com] Today (April 20, 2011) , the Interactive Autism Network (IAN), www.ianproject.org, the nation’s largest online autism research project, reveals the preliminary results of the first major survey on wandering and elopement among individuals with autism spectrum disorders…...

April 21, 2011

Program: PBS NewsHour Episode: Autism’s Causes: How Close Are We to Solving the Puzzle? The rise in the number of reported autism cases has caused a surge in research to find the causes. For the latest thinking, Robert MacNeil speaks with four…...