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Untangling Autism – What Scientists from Brandeis University are Doing

November 29, 2010

3 December 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Brandeis Magazine] In 1994, Liane Kupferberg Carter ’76 and her husband found themselves watching as a team of unsmiling experts at a New York teaching hospital poked, prodded and measured their toddler son, Mickey. Carter, a professional writer, recalled in her…...

More Bullying Resources in the News

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Bullying, News, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: CNN.com] Editor’s Note: We realize that we already featured a list of Bullying Resources in a recent issue. However, CNN has recently completed a big campaign in conjunction with “Stop Bullying Now,” so we thought we would also bring you their…...

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Article, Autism, Newsletter, SLP

Editor’s Note: Shareka just posted an update to this case study. You can find the link to the second blog post about “Josh” below By: Shareka Bentham, SLT copyright 2010. Shareka Bentham, SLT This blog post has been reprinted with express permission…...

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer and Washington Post] At 8 p.m. Saturday, Southwest Airlines Flight 2149 was poised to push back from the gate. Flight attendants gave fasten-seat-belt instructions, and First Officer Peter Hayes announced, “There’s 25 minutes of flight time until we…...

Guest Blog: A Myriad of Materials

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Article, Newsletter, SLP

By: Heather Greenwood copyright 2010, ITeach2Talk. Reprinted with the permission of the author as appeared on her blog site As any speech-language pathologist and SLP student knows, materials that we use for therapy can be quite costly. During my online adventures traveling…...

November 22, 2010

. 6 May 2022, Article, Newsletter, School Psych

By: Shahal Rozenblatt, Ph.D., Clinical Neuropsychologist People are highly complex organisms whose problems are of equal complexity. In order to effectively treat the problems with which people present, we need to have a way of understanding the nature of this complexity, breaking…...

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Article, Bilingualism, Newsletter, SLP

By: Scott Prath, M.A., CCC-SLP, Bilinguistics Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Bilinguistics Kara Anderson, M. A., CCC-SLP, Bilinguistics Many clinicians express frustration that there are not more materials designed for working with a Spanish-speaking population. A book is a great tool. Storybooks are…...

Make a Virtual Turkey

November 22, 2010

Newsletter, SLP, Tip or Resource

Thanks to our friend Sean at SpeechTechie for this fun Thanksgiving activity! The Make a Stuffed Turkey game at Primary Games is a fun way to work on sequencing and helping kids understand all that goes into a Turkey Dinner. The click-and-drag…...

November 22, 2010

29 November 2010, Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ScienceDaily.com] A complex network of brain connections necessary for language comprehension has been mapped in new detail, according to recent research. These newly charted pathways will help scientists understand how language is processed in the brain, and how brain injuries disrupt…...

November 22, 2010

26 November 2010, Article, Cochlear Implants, Hearing Loss, Newsletter, SLP

Chute, P. & Nevins, M. (2009, September 22). The ASHA Leader. Professionals should understand the relationship between a child’s language and chronological age when serving students with hearing loss in the mainstream. See the full Article HERE...