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Worth Repeating: Speech and Language Development for Children with Down Syndrome (5-11 years)

January 1, 2008

by: Sue Buckley and Gillian Bird This article can be found on Down Syndrome Online. Down Syndrome Online offers comprehensive information about Down syndrome, including articles, books and scientific papers. Read the full text of “Speech and Language Development for Children with Down Syndrome…...

January 1, 2008

Article, PLI, Primary Language Impairment, SLP

James Law, Ph.D., FRCSLT, Professor of Language and Communication Science, Director of the Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research, Queen Margaret University Published online 02-13-09 in the Canadian Language & Literacy Research Network in their Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development This Encyclopedia entry…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Down Syndrome, SLP, Stuttering

By: Peter Howell This article can be found on Down Syndrome Online. Down Syndrome Online offers comprehensive information about Down syndrome, including articles, books and scientific papers. Two areas where speech fluency problems arise, the motor system and the speech-language interface, are described and…...

January 1, 2008

Handwriting, OT, Pencil Grasp, Video

This video accompanies the May 2009 newsletter on Pencil Grasp Patterns....

January 1, 2008

Article, SLP

By: Apel, K. (2002, January 22). The ASHA Leader. When I first entered this profession and decided to focus on child language, I learned as much as I could about language development in the first five years of life. After all, that was…...

January 1, 2008

Book, SLP, Stuttering

John Harrison is a recovered person who stutters who lived with the problem for roughly 30 years. He s also a 30-year member of the NSA and one of the first people to join the organization. In the mid-80s, John came up…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Fluency, Literacy, Reading, SLP

Reutzel, D. (2009, April 14). The ASHA Leader. For many years, the emphasis in reading shifted away from proficient oral reading in the early 1900s and toward silent reading for private and personal purposes in the 1930s. Consequently, the goal of developing…...

January 1, 2008

Article, Multiculturalism, SLP

Roseberry-McKibbin, C. (2001, November 06). The ASHA Leader. How do we define “culture”? Much too narrowly. We have traditionally used the term to focus primarily on people’s ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Such limitation, however, causes us to neglect attention to one of…...

Book: Raising a Sensory Smart Child

January 1, 2008

Autism, Book, SPD

For children with sensory integration issues-those who have difficulty processing everyday sensations and exhibit unusual behaviors such as avoiding or seeking out touch, movement, sounds, and sights-this groundbreaking book is an invaluable resource. Long thought to affect only autistic children, or mistaken…...

Reading an NBCOT® Exam Question

January 1, 2008

Article, NBCOT, OT

All material Copyright © 2009 OT-Advantage.com By: Alison Bodor, M.S. OTR/L The NBCOT® Certification Exam for the OTR® candidate is a combination of multiple choice, scenario, and clinical simulation exam questions. The scenario question is given in the form of a multiple choice question. Therefore, the…...