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Treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Description of Integral Stimulation and Motor Learning

January 1, 2008

Article, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, SLP

Gildersleeve-Neumann, C. (2007, November 06). The ASHA Leader. When you work with a child with apraxia of speech, you gain a greater respect for the complexity of the speech task and why the understanding of motor learning theory is invaluable for treatment.…...

January 1, 2008

Book, SPD

by: Chynna Laird What would you do if your child suffered with something so severe it affected every aspect of her life? And what if your cries for help fell on deaf ears at every turn? You’d follow your gut and fight…...

January 1, 2008

Down Syndrome, Literacy, Parental Involvement, SLP

By: Anne van Bysterveldt, Gail Gillon and Susan Foster-Cohen This article can be found on Down Syndrome Online. Down Syndrome Online offers comprehensive information about Down syndrome, including articles, books and scientific papers. Adopting a sociocultural approach to the acquisition of literacy has resulted…...

LiteGait Trainer used in CP Therapy

January 1, 2008

Adaptive Technology, Cerebral Palsy, Gait, Video

Occupational Therapist, Hulet Smith, and his daughter, Sophia, who has Cerebral Palsy, demonstrates the LiteGait Trainer....

January 1, 2008

Book, Fine Motor Skills, OT

The updated and expanded 2nd edition of “Fine Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome” continues to be a popular, practical guide to understanding fine motor skills in children with Down syndrome and helping them develop these skills from birth through early…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Down Syndrome, SLP

This article can be found on Down Syndrome Online. Down Syndrome Online offers comprehensive information about Down syndrome, including articles, books and scientific papers. Significant progress is being made in understanding some of the main reasons why children with intellectual disabilities, and particularly children…...

January 1, 2008

OT, PT, School Psych, SLP, TBI, Video

Source: Brainline.org] Used with permission from BrainLine.org, a WETA website. http://www.brainline.org. Tools and Resources for Educators Working with Kids with TBI Learn about the tools out there — from traumatic brain injury 101-type information to specifics on how to develop a student’s individualized…...

January 1, 2008

Article, SLP

Secord, W. (2007, May 29). The ASHA Leader. Speech-language pathologists in a leadership capacity can profoundly influence school-based practice. I found this out personally more than 25 years ago when taking a short course at an ASHA Convention. The professor teaching that…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Down Syndrome, SLP

All material Copyright © May 2009 The Down Syndrome Centre Reprinted with the express permission of the The Down Syndrome Centre as originally published on their website. By: Marinet vanVuren Marinet vanVuren is a South African born Speech and Language Therapist. For the past…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Autism, SLP

Ervin, M. (2003, April 29). The ASHA Leader. Imagine what it means for a parent day in and day out, when spoken language is absent, when even pointing, smiling, and nodding are rare. There may be little communication at all other than…...