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Rett Syndrome in the News – MIT Study Suggests Molecule Can Reverse Some Symptoms

February 26, 2010

February 2010, News, Newsletter, Rett Syndrome

[Source: MIT News] A molecule that promotes brain development could serve as a possible treatment for Rett syndrome, the most common form of autism in girls, according to researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Whitehead Institute for…...

February 12, 2010

February 2010, News, Newsletter, Stuttering

[Source: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, The Stuttering Foundation] Findings suggest common speech problem, in some cases, may actually be an inherited metabolic disorder Stuttering may be the result of a glitch in the day-to-day process by which cellular…...

February 5, 2010

February 2010, News, Newsletter, SLP, Speech Delay

[Source, New York Times, February 8, 2010] There is nothing simple about speech, and there is nothing simple about speech delay — starting with the challenge of diagnosing it. Every pediatrician knows the frustration of trying to quantify the speech and language…...

Selective Mutism in the News

February 5, 2010

5 February 2010, News, Selective Mutism, SLP

Silenced by herself… the little girl who chooses not to speak By NIKKI MURFITT Last updated at 10:03 PM on 30th January 2010 Sitting side by side on a pedalo, John Stanford and his granddaughter Red Jolley, nine,…...

February 5, 2010

Autism, February 2010, News of the Week, Newsletter, OT

February 4, 2010: This week, the British Medical Journal, the Lancet, retracted a twelve year old study published by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. This study is widely credited for spearheading the theory that childhood vaccinations could be causing some cases of autism. Celebrities…...

January 29, 2010

AAC, Article, January 2010, Newsletter, Q&A, SLP

By: Vicki Clarke, MS CCC-SLP and Elisa Sarosi, BS SLPA What is your experience with AAC? I began working with AAC in 1990 in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill and continued through the present. How would you define augmentative communication? Any form…...

January 29, 2010

Article, Assistive Technology, Cerebral Palsy, January 2010, Newsletter, PT

By: Liz Bell, DPT, ATP As a PT working in the school setting, I sometimes feel like I spend as much or more time getting equipment ordered, delivered, adjusted, adapted, and repaired for my students as I do performing actual hands on…...

January 29, 2010

Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Book, January 2010, SPD, Tip or Resource

[Source: Amazon.com], One of the best ways for children with autism, Asperger’s, and sensory processing disorders to learn is through play. Children improve their motor skills, language skills, and social skills by moving their bodies and interacting with their environment. Yet the…...

January 22, 2010

New Grad Guide

At the ASHA New Orleans Convention, we got great feedback about this little guidebook we put together for new grads. It contains a time-line for job search planning, resume writing tips, interviewing tips, a sample resume, some of our frequently asked…...

January 22, 2010

January 2010, News, Newsletter, Pediatric Stroke

[Source: New York Times, January 18, 2010] My son Jared lay in a bed at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital, limp and pale, his 7-year-old body tethered to a tangle of tubes and monitor wires. A neurologist, Dr. Maurine Packard, stood to his…...