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Starting a Private Practice

Margaret Fish, MS, CCC-SLP

December 15, 2003

Where can I find info. about beginning a private practice?   Read More


Treating Apraxia in Non-Verbal Children

Franklin Silverman, Ph.D

December 8, 2003

I am currently working with a 6 year old child diagnosed with apraxia. He is essentially non-verbal at this time. I am desperately looking for treatment information. I have looked at many websites and...   Read More


Word Finding Skills

Kathryn Schopfer, MS

December 1, 2003

Are there any documented methods to improve word-finding skills? Is there a way to measure progress with word-finding skills short of standardized assessment?   Read More

 


Hearing Conservation for Neonates

Roanne Karzon, Ph.D

November 17, 2003

A nurse at a local hospital has called our office seeking information about hearing conservation guidelines for neonatal babies being air transported. They use small sound meters in the incubators tha...   Read More


Cochlear Implantation and AV Therapy

Patricia Trautwein, AuD

November 10, 2003

Please tell me about Auditory-Verbal (AV) Therapy for children and adult cochlear implant recipients? How is this similar to, or different from, traditional speech therapy?   Read More


When Stutterers are Fluent

Eileen Savelkoul, Ph.D,CCC-SLP

November 3, 2003

What are the theoretical factors that determine when stutterers are more fluent and less fluent? Has anyone ever measured brain activity, such as EEG, during times of dysfluency to see if the brain ac...   Read More


Pragmatics and School Social Skills

October 27, 2003

I have a very good 7th grade student who is in speech for poor pragmatic skills but does well with all our body language and stay on topic activities to meet his goals but his personality just gives o...   Read More

 


Speech Language Therapy Needs for Cochlear Implant Recipients

October 20, 2003

I have questions about the ''quantity'' of speech and language therapy needed for a four year old who has had a cochlear implant for two years.   Read More

 


Word Retrieval in Persons with Aphasia

Anastasia Raymer, Ph.D,CCC

October 13, 2003

Are there any documented methods to improve word-finding skills? Is there a way to measure progress with word-finding skills short of standardized assessment? Is a goal of ''will exhibit (two) or less...   Read More


Apraxia and Hearing Loss

Thomas Borton ., Ph.D

October 6, 2003

What exactly is apraxia and what can be done to reverse it or stop it from getting worse? The example to use would be a 2 year, 9 month year old boy, who does have a history of ear problems Ears were...   Read More


Speech Cluttering

Franklin Silverman, Ph.D

September 29, 2003

What might be the etiology for a child with an excessive speech rate and poor intelligibility? This 8 year old boy has poor articulation (6th percentile on Goldman-Fristoe2) but not due to excessive p...   Read More


Hypernasality

Bridget Russell, Ph.D,CCC-SLP

September 22, 2003

Where can I find information regarding effective therapy for hypernasality?   Read More


Developmental Apraxia of Speech

Suzanne Hungerford ., Ph.D,CCC

September 15, 2003

At what age is it possible to diagnose apraxia? Is apraxia in children a precursor to other disorders that may appear in the future? Is this different than dyspraxia?   Read More


Dysphagia Success

Kathy Thayer, M.A.

September 8, 2003

Please discuss/review how to measure ''success'' with dysphagia patients post-treatment.   Read More


Specific Language Impairment

John Oller Jr, Ph.D

September 1, 2003

What is Specific Language Impairment? What is the appropriate treatment?   Read More


Turner Syndrome and AAC

Robert Shprintzen, Ph.D

August 25, 2003

I see a student with Turner's Syndrome. She has a AAC device becuase her speech is not functional. Breath support is compromised. Is this a common issue related to Turner's syndrome and if so, what is...   Read More


Provision of Language Based Intervention in Middle School Classrooms

Kathryn DeKemel, Ph.D,CCC-SLP

August 18, 2003

I am trying to implement language based practices into inclusionary middle school classrooms. Can you suggest any resources that might help me? I find that many techniques do not fit well in heterogen...   Read More


Dysphagia Etiology

Kathy Thayer, M.A.

August 11, 2003

Please discuss/review the most common etiologies of swallowing disorders in adults.   Read More


Articulation

Stephanie Tarrant Martin And Speech/Language Pathologist), Ph.D

August 4, 2003

I have a 4 year old child on my caseload. The only phoneme in his language system is /d/ and some vowel sounds. He is totally unintelligible. He can produce other age-appropriate phonemes in isolation...   Read More


SLPs Relationship to Autism

Karen Thomas /, M.S.,CCC-SLP

July 28, 2003

Please address autism, with particular emphasis on the SLPs relationship to autism, and related issues.   Read More


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