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Speech Therapy for Patients with Myasthenia Gravis

Patrick Coppens, Ph.D

October 8, 2007

What should be the main focus of speech and language therapy for patients with myasthenia gravis?   Read More


Oral Feeding Problems in a Premature Infant

Jeanne Saavedra Mhs, CCC-SLP

October 1, 2007

My granddaughter was born October 5th, 2006. She was not due until Jan 1st, 2007. She was released from the hospital in January, but still will take almost no bottles. She has a gastric tube, but we a...   Read More

 


Medicare Paying for Cochlear Implants?

Tony Arnold Vp Product Mangement Marketing For Advanced Bionics

September 24, 2007

Will Medicare pay for bilateral CIs? For replacing an existing CI with a newer internal device? For a new BTE?   Read More


Team Approach to Assessing APD

Stephanie Tarrant Martin, Ph.D

September 17, 2007

I am a speech language pathologist who is currently not practicing. I strongly suspect that my four year old has an auditory processing problem. He was evaluated. The speech therapist looked at his re...   Read More


Reporting Raw Test Scores

Shelly Velleman, Ph.D

September 10, 2007

Is there any reason to report raw scores on comprehensive evaluation reports? I typically report the standard score and percentile rank, as well as a ratings equivalence (i.e., average, below average,...   Read More


Tips for Working with Velar Fronting

Sandra Uhl, M.A.

September 3, 2007

My question concerns a six year old girl who has velar fronting for /k/ and /g/ and a frontal lisp on /s/ and /z/. I am a student beginning to work on my own cases and am having some trouble with this...   Read More


Voice Therapy Post Surgical Removal of Polyps

Bridget Russell, Ph.D

August 20, 2007

I have a patient who is going to have surgery to remove a polyp from the vocal cords. How soon after the surgery can she receive voice treatment? And do you have any suggestions about exercises? I am...   Read More


The Relationship Between Aphasia Therapy and Cognitive Strengths

Laura Murray, Ph.D,CCC-SLP

August 13, 2007

Do you know of any updated research on aphasia therapy within the realm of neuroanatomy and memory tracing? It's intriguing to me and I'm incredibly interested in this field! Any info provided would b...   Read More


Nasal Speech: Phoneme Specific Errors

Michelle Harmon, Ph.D

August 6, 2007

I have a six year old little girl with very nasal speech. She has seen an ENT and he has said that her oral mechanism looks OK with no areas of concern. The ENT stated that tonsils were normal, he cou...   Read More

 


Anoxic Incident in a 10-month Old

Cheryl B.Gerard, Ph.D

July 30, 2007

I'm working with a 10-month old infant who suffered an anoxic incident due to near drowning. She has little cause and effect awareness, no volitional vocalizations, and delayed latch to nipples. Her s...   Read More

 


Listening Age for Implanted Children

Margaret Fish, MS, CCC-SLP

July 23, 2007

I am looking for research that focuses on implants and listening age. For example if a child was implanted at the age of 3 1/2 and has been in school, and intelligence appears age appropriate, should...   Read More


Interrupted Oral and Silent Reading

Leslie Holzhauser-Peters, M.A.

July 16, 2007

I am working with a student whose oral reading is constantly interrupted by an unusual amount of breaths taken in the middle of words. Thus his comprehension of the subject matter is compromised. Does...   Read More


Facilitating A Home Program for Nutrition and Speech

Lynn Marty Grames, M.A.,CCC-SLP

July 9, 2007

I am an RN and I do some home care for a 3 year old boy. This young child was born at 23 weeks gestation due to abruption of the placenta. He had some rough months in the NICU and then went home on a...   Read More

 


Early Intervention for Tongue Thrust

Juli Webster ., M.S.,CCC-SLP

July 2, 2007

I am a grandmother, R.N., and do most of the childcare for my 19 mo. old grandson. Both his parents are dentists, one being a Pedodontist. The problem is that my grandson has had a tongue protrusion s...   Read More

  


Laryngeal Spasms

George Charpied, M.S.,CCC-SLP

June 25, 2007

I recently conducted a modified barium swallow study on a patient who complained of severe coughing episodes at the beginning of her meals that subsided as she ate. During the MBS, the patient did cou...   Read More

  


Adjusting to a New Cochlear Implant for a Child

Carissa Moeggenberg ., M.A.,CCC

June 18, 2007

Our daughter, age 3, is getting a HiResolution Cochlear Implant this Friday. I'm wondering....when we first amplified Ali with her Phonak hearing aid on the left side, she did not tolerate it very wel...   Read More


Phoneme-Specific Nasal Air Emissions versus Hypernasality

Lesley Mangus ., Ph.D,CCC-SLP

June 11, 2007

I would like to know what the relationship is between phoneme-specific nasal emission and nasal emission due to VP dysfunction.   Read More

 


Tongue Thrust and Orthodontics

Dee Lance, Ph.D

June 4, 2007

At what point do you not treat tongue thrust? I saw a 10 year old who was referred because her orthodontist does not want to put braces on her because of a tongue thrust. Her background includes no hi...   Read More

 


Bite Blocks for Toddlers

Kerrilyn Phillips Slp.D., CCC

May 28, 2007

Do you know where I can obtain a bite block for a young toddler that is biting his tongue? The child is not eating by mouth.   Read More


Guidelines for School Report Writing

Barb Miller, M.S.,CCC-SLP

May 21, 2007

Could you offer a good form for school report writing and some guidelines to follow?   Read More


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