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'Simplified' Brain Lets the iCub Robot Learn Language

February 20, 2013

22 February 2013, Language, News of the Week, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily] The iCub humanoid robot on which the team directed by Peter Ford Dominey, CNRS Director of Research at Inserm Unit 846* has been working for many years will now be able to understand what is being said to it…...

App of the Week: Sentence Maker

February 19, 2013

22 February 2013, App, Newsletter

[Source: Teachers With Apps] Sentence Maker, by Grasshopper Apps, is just terrific! Somehow, Sentence Maker fell through the cracks and we didn’t review it when we first started using it. This simple, yet sensational, app is powerful. We’ve had students working with …...

February 19, 2013

22 February 2013, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Newsletter

Thank You to Stacy Menz of Starfish Therapies for this great idea! Okay, so the title may be confusing but this is what our therapist and her kiddo called it. I loved the idea. They took these awesome carpet squares that we…...

February 18, 2013

22 February 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for before-and-after analysis, a team of researchers including a UC Santa Barbara graduate student discovered positive changes in brain activity in children with autism who received a particular type of behavioral therapy. Work…...

February 18, 2013

22 February 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] If you started piano lessons in grade one, or played the recorder in kindergarten, thank your parents and teachers. Those lessons you dreaded – or loved – helped develop your brain. The younger you started music lessons, the…...

February 18, 2013

[Source: Medical News Today] Even very young children understand that adults don’t always know best. When it comes to helping, 3-year-olds may ignore an adult’s specific request for an unhelpful item and go out of their way to bring something more useful,…...

February 18, 2013

22 February 2013, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] The genes activated for human speech are similar to the ones used by singing songbirds, new experiments suggest. These results, which are not yet published, show that gene products produced for speech in the cortical and basal ganglia regions…...

February 15, 2013

15 February 2013, Bilingualism, Language, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Science Daily.com] Babies as young as seven months can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures, according to new research from the University of British Columbia and Université Paris Descartes. Published February 14 in the…...

Worth Repeating: The ABC's of Speech

February 14, 2013

15 February 2013, Article, Language, Newsletter, SLP

Here is a great blog post I found on a new blog, The Speech Newsletter. Perhaps we can interest these ladies in being guest bloggers for us! by Robyn Romano & Brook Todd We have compiled and highlighted a list of suggestions…...

February 14, 2013

15 January2013, Article, Newsletter, Video

Editor’s Note: Special Thanks to Abby Brayton, MS. OTR/L of the Notes from a Pediatric OT blog for sharing this terrific video that all teachers and therapist clinician should watch!! Excellent! From Abby: Today I’m sharing Amy Cuddy’s talk, “Your body language shapes…...