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February 25, 2011

25 February 2011, Article, Newsletter, SPD

By: Loren Shlaes, OTR Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique This article is reprinted here with the express permission of the author as it appeared on her blog NB: This is part ONE of a two part article. Part two may be…...

February 24, 2011

25 February 2011, Article, Batten Disease, Newsletter, Rare Diseases and Disorders

By: The Batten Disease Support and Research Association (BDSRA) NB: This 167 page handbook was written primarily for parents of children with Batten Disease. We provide it to you because it is a wonderful summary of the types of issues that a…...

February 24, 2011

25 February 2011, Newsletter, OT, Tip or Resource

Editor’s Note: Thank you to our friends at Your Therapy Source for telling us about this page! Although this post was written for parents, I am sure you agree that these recipes make great therapy materials. [Source: Ohdeedoh.com] The first time I…...

February 23, 2011

25 February 2011, Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter

By: Alejandro Brice, PhD, CCC-SLP, Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, and Roanne Brice, PhD., CCC-SLP Our personal names are an inherent part of who we are, i.e., culture and personality. I was born with the name “Alejandro.”. My parents shortened this to “Ale”…...

February 23, 2011

25 February 2011, Language, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: PhysOrg.com] Infants raised in households where Spanish and Catalan are spoken can discriminate between English and French just by watching people speak, even though they have never been exposed to these new languages before, according to University of British Columbia psychologist…...

February 23, 2011

25 February 2011, Article, Language, Newsletter, SLP

By: Kelli Ellenbaum, MS CCC-SLP The importance of gesture development in infants and children has been long underestimated. In the field of speech language pathology and communication, there are few formal assessments that provide therapists and developmental specialists with developmental age comparisons.…...

February 23, 2011

25 Feburary 2011, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Here is a very exciting resource to share. Back in January, we featured a chapter of a book by Dorothy Miranda Esckelson and Adulfa Aguirre Morales, called ‘Spanish Phrasing for SLPs.’ The authors had given Judith Kuster of MSU, permission to post…...

February 22, 2011

25 February 2011, Article, Newsletter

By: Heidi Kay for ASHAsphere Copyright 2011. Reprinted with the express permission of the ASHA as it appeared on their blog ASHAsphere Editor’s Note: I was asked to write this article for the ASHA blog. We thought it would be a nice…...

February 21, 2011

25 February 2011, News of the Week, Newsletter, Stuttering

[Sources: Telegraph UK, CNN] Like in the movie which stars Colin Firth as King George VI, it has been assumed that a stammer is caused by anxiety and psychological problems caused in early life. New Research Suggest that mutated genes which are…...

February 18, 2011

18 February 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily.com] George Washington University researcher, Dr. Valerie Hu, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her team at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, have found that male and female sex hormones regulate expression of an important gene in…...