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Book: Learning Re-Enabled – A Practical Guide to Helping Children with Learning Disabilities

January 1, 2008

Book, IEP, OT

Learning Re-enabled is designed to help therapists, teachers, and parents understand the learning disabled child. The author, through extensive professional experience and a special devotion to learning disabled children, developed this book to be a resource for professionals and parents as they…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Literacy, SLP

Spracher, M. (2000, April 25). The ASHA Leader. A school-based speech-language pathologist is reading with a second grader to help develop her vocabulary. The story ends. The SLP asks the child to read back key words—but she can’t. What should the SLP…...

January 1, 2008

Down Syndrome, Video

Sarah Palin is a role model to many parents of children with Down Syndrome. As Katie Couric reports, the majority of parents that learn of the disorder early choose to terminate the pregnancy....

January 1, 2008

Article, Literacy, SLP

Westby, C. (2005, September 27). The ASHA Leader. The years 2003-2012 are the United Nations’ Literacy Decade. The theme for the decade is “Literacy as Freedom.” In the 21st century, persons without literacy cannot be truly free. In the world, there are…...

January 1, 2008

Book, Selective Mutism

Understanding Katie is a hands-on storybook written especially for children between the ages of 3-12 years of age who suffer from Selective Mutism and/or social phobia. Selectively Mute/socially anxious children ‘cannot speak’ and feel afraid when they are in various social situations,…...

Language-Based Learning Disabilities

January 1, 2008

Article, Language, SLP

[Source] ASHA Article Answers Questions of: What is a language-based learning disability? What are some signs or symptoms of a language-based learning disability? How is a language-based learning disability diagnosed? What treatments are available for people with a language-based learning disability? What other…...

Language Precursors: Sound Production

January 1, 2008

Down Syndrome, Language, SLP

All material Copyright © April 2009 The Down Syndrome Centre Reprinted with the express permission of 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 seven…...

January 1, 2008

Bilingualism, Language, Multiculturalism, SLP

As the number of children from diverse linguistic backgrounds steadily increases, most speech-language pathologists can expect to encounter such children on their caseloads. Yet most do not feel adequately prepared for this task. For people who have grown up and lived in…...

Down Syndrome Websites & Organizations

January 1, 2008

Down Syndrome, Links

The Down Syndrome Centre, Great website and organization based in Ireland with terrific resources. Down Syndrome Education USA -is developing and evaluating education programs, organizing conferences for families and professionals and supporting practical scientific research Down Syndrome Online, offers comprehensive information about Down…...

Children with Multiple Sclerosis

January 1, 2008

Article, Multiple Sclerosis

By: Kelly Rouba (May 17th, 2007). Action online Magazine of the United Spinal Association. This article was originally published in Action Online and is reprinted here with the express Permission of the United Spinal Association. Multiple sclerosis can no longer be thought of as…...