[Source: Time Magazine] Perhaps the most important thing you need to know about Melanie Perkins McLaughlin is that she’s not pro-life or pro-choice or pro anything — other than pro-information. When a distraught pregnant woman phones a Massachusetts hotline for Down syndrome,…...
[Source: EWeek.com] Image Credit: Autitouch Microsoft has found a spot for its Surface multitouch tabletop computer in health care, as occupational therapists have developed applications for pediatric patients with autism and cerebral palsy. Surface is also used in other industries such as…...
Thanks to our friends at Your Therapy Source for the heads-up on this story. Its a great video to show to start a discussion at school districts debating between handwriting, cursive and keyboarding. ...
Editor’s Note: PediaStaff asked Jenna at Speech Room News to come up with a speech-language activity for the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah, and here it is! Thanks, Jenna this is great! It’s that time of year! Hope you’re looking forward to the…...
[Source: Jet Blue Blog (Blue Tales] More than 400 people turned out for Jet Blue’s second Wings for Autism event at their Boston station this past Saturday. For many families, this was the first time they stepped inside an airport, let alone…...
By: Tamara Truax and JoAnn Tuttle For decades the traditional once-weekly 30 minute group therapy model has been the most common way of treating sound errors in a school-based setting. However, if you ask therapists working on articulation what they think of…...
[Source: ASHA] This document includes information that can be used to advocate for reduced or streamlined paperwork for school-based speech-language pathologists. The document provides: an explanation of the federal requirements for paperwork under IDEA; suggestions for how to advocate for changes in…...
by: Lydia Brown At the Adult Services Subcommittee’s final meeting in late July, much to do was made about semantic disagreements — “ASD individual” versus “individual with ASD,” and of course, the dreaded “person with autism” or “person who has autism” versus…...
[Source: The Blaze] Taya Kennedy isn’t your average baby model. The 14-month-old has a beautiful smile and a twinkle in her eye, which is why it‘s no surprise that she’s been a major success in the kid-modeling world. But it is the fact that…...
[Source: ABC News] Specially tinted lenses originally developed for color blindness are helping some U.S. dyslexics read faster and see words more clearly, confirming the claims of the lenses’ British inventor and the company that started selling them here in September. As…...
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