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Worth Repeating: Optimizing Outcomes Following ABI

August 18, 2011

19 August 2011, Article, Newsletter, OT, School Psych, SLP, TBI

By: Laurie Ehlhardt, PhD, Patricia Sublette, PhD, and Ann Glang, PhD, Brain Injury Professional Instruction is one of the most important yet often over-looked aspects of working with children and adults with cognitive impairments due to ABI. Providing learners with clear instruction…...

August 18, 2011

19 August 2011, Animal Assisted Therapy, News, Newsletter

[Source: ABC News] Bailey Benson turned 10 today, but she’s already reading like a high school student thanks to her terrier tutor, Guthrie. It’s been a year and a half since Benson and her parents visited an animal shelter in Phoenix and…...

August 17, 2011

19 August 2011, ADHD, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] A multinational collaboration between researchers from Spain, Mexico and Argentina revealed, that mice could provide an insight into how specific receptor subtypes in the brain could be responsible in increasing a person’s risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),…...

August 17, 2011

19 August 2011, Articulation, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

Wow! Special Thanks to Heidi Hanks, M.S. CCC-SLP of Mommy Speech Therapy for letting us share with you her wonderful (and very large) set of Articulation Worksheets and Data Collection Forms. She has sheets for over 20 sounds for initial, medial and…...

August 17, 2011

19 August 2011, Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ScienceDaily.com] The brain has two big tasks related to speech: making it and understanding it. Psychologists and others who study the brain have debated whether these are really two separate tasks or whether they both use the same regions of the…...

August 17, 2011

19 August 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Young people with autism may find it difficult to multitask because they stick rigidly to tasks in the order they are given to them, according to research led by an academic at the University of Strathclyde. The study…...

August 16, 2011

19 August 2011, Article, Newsletter, Progeria

[Source: National Institutes of Health] What is Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome? Editor’s Note: This article links to numerous pages of information about the Genetic component of this disorder. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by the dramatic, rapid appearance of aging…...

August 16, 2011

19 August 2011, Article, Newsletter, SPD

By: Cat Lichtenbelt Copyright 2011. Reprinted with the express permission of Sensory Flow as it appeared on their website August 11, 2011 Editor’s Note: This article was written for parents, but we are including it on our blog because we thought it…...

August 15, 2011

19 August 2011, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Yahoo News/Live Science] A baby born into a family with an older sibling who has autism has a 19 percent chance of also developing the disorder, a new international study has found. Researchers previously estimated this sibling risk to be 5…...

August 11, 2011

12 August 2011, ADHD, News, Physical Education, Physical Fitness

Thanks PediatricOT for the heads up on this article! [Source: New York Times] If you want a young person to focus intently in school and perform well on tests, should you first send him or her to gym class? That question, which…...