Editor’s Note: The article below mentions a product evaluation of the ‘Speech Buddies’ tools by SLP clinician David Hammer. PediaStaff was instrumental in the bringing David and the folks at Speech Buddies together to conduct an independent review of the product. As…...
[Source NPR.org] In many ways, Mark Heim is a typical senior at Colorado State University. He has the kind of smart humor you’d expect from someone who excels in computer science, engineering and math; his T-shirt reads, “Department of Redundancy Department.” But…...
[Source: Science Daily.com] Individuals with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, often develop epilepsy, but so far the underlying causes are unknown. Researchers have now discovered a potential mechanism that may contribute to the link between epilepsy…...
By: Scott Prath, M.A., CCC-SLP, Bilinguistics Reprinted with the express permission of the author as it appeared on the Bilinguistics Blog I read the book A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink while searching for new ways to approach issues at…...
Special Thanks to Tonya at Therapy Fun Zone for the heads up on this terrific activity she found on TPCraft.com Supplies needed are: 10-12 paper towel rolls, hot glue gun, magnets, scissors, a marble – and a metal door or refrigerator. Looks…...
[Source: The Daily Mail (UK)] He once wanted to know why he couldn’t ask Santa Claus to give him arms and legs. Now Nicholas Maxim has proved that he doesn’t need either, by winning a national award for handwriting – despite not…...
By: Sullivan, on the blog ‘Left Brain, Right Brain‘ I’ve read a lot about the benefits of the iPad over the past year. And, yes, it is a very good thing to add to the arsenal of tools to help disabled people.…...
Steven C. White (2011, April 5). The ASHA Leader. ASHA Responds to Error in Letter from Health and Human Services ASHA is helping state associations respond to an erroneous characterization by Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. secretary of health and human services, who informed…...
By: Erik X. Raj, CCC-SLP Copyright 2011. Reprinted with the express permission of the author as it appeared on his blog Artic Brain When is the last time you showed one of your students a YouTube clip in speech therapy? Probably never,…...
[Source: ABC News] Shannon Penrod, 48, of Saugus, Calif., could feel a change coming over her son Jem Miller. By the time he was two, parts of his speech gradually began to disappear. In just a few months, what started as, “Mama…...
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