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Study: Speaking and Understanding Speech Share the Same Parts of the Brain

August 17, 2011

19 August 2011, Language, News, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: ScienceDaily.com] The brain has two big tasks related to speech: making it and understanding it. Psychologists and others who study the brain have debated whether these are really two separate tasks or whether they both use the same regions of the…...

August 17, 2011

19 August 2011, Autism, News, Newsletter

[Source: Medical News Today] Young people with autism may find it difficult to multitask because they stick rigidly to tasks in the order they are given to them, according to research led by an academic at the University of Strathclyde. The study…...

August 16, 2011

19 August 2011, Article, Newsletter, Progeria

[Source: National Institutes of Health] What is Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome? Editor’s Note: This article links to numerous pages of information about the Genetic component of this disorder. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by the dramatic, rapid appearance of aging…...

August 16, 2011

19 August 2011, Article, Newsletter, SPD

By: Cat Lichtenbelt Copyright 2011. Reprinted with the express permission of Sensory Flow as it appeared on their website August 11, 2011 Editor’s Note: This article was written for parents, but we are including it on our blog because we thought it…...

August 15, 2011

19 August 2011, Autism, News of the Week, Newsletter

[Source: Yahoo News/Live Science] A baby born into a family with an older sibling who has autism has a 19 percent chance of also developing the disorder, a new international study has found. Researchers previously estimated this sibling risk to be 5…...

August 11, 2011

12 August 2011, ADHD, News, Physical Education, Physical Fitness

Thanks PediatricOT for the heads up on this article! [Source: New York Times] If you want a young person to focus intently in school and perform well on tests, should you first send him or her to gym class? That question, which…...

August 11, 2011

12 August 2012, Article, Neurofibromatosis, Newsletter

[Source, Medical News Today] Neurofibromatosis, also known as NF, is a genetically inherited disorder of the nervous system (brain and spinal cord) which mainly affects the development of nerve (neural) cell tissues, causing tumors (neurofibromas) to develop on nerves, and may cause…...

August 10, 2011

12 August 2011, Fine Motor Skills, Newsletter, OT, PT, Tip or Resource

Silly Bandz are ‘so last summer,’ What to do with all of them? Margaret Rice at Your Therapy Source has three great ideas of how to turn the once popular bands into fun therapy!...

August 9, 2011

12 August 2011, News of the Week, Newsletter, Stuttering

[Source CNN, Photo Credit: The Weinstien Company] Plans are underway to bring “The King’s Speech” to Broadway. Producer Michael Alden said the current goal is to launch the stage rendering in U.K. regional theater in the winter of 2012, then move to…...

Adaptive Switches for the Kindle 3

August 9, 2011

12 August 2011, Adaptive Technology, Assistive Technology, News, Newsletter, Switches

[Source: Blog Kindle.com and Origin Instruments] Editor’s Note: Normally we wouldn’t put a product press release in the news section of this publication, but we were sufficiently excited to want everyone to see this! The explosion of the e-book / reading…...