September 2011
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Link: Surviving Stroke / ideastream →
WVIZ - PBS and WCPN Public Radio out of Cleveland are in the midst of an ongoing series called surviving stroke. This evening WCPN played the audio of an M.D. describing surgery to clamp off an anueurism. Here is the video of that surgery. It’s always crazy to me, to think of a brain beating.
{surviving stroke} {inside an aneurism operation}
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Link: Steve Evans Blog →
A number of the #slpeeps across the pond have been posting this (apparently there’s a conference going on over there). Mr. Evans makes extensive use of AAC devices, and blogs about their use, among other things.
{link} {via @darthbrush}
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Empathy and patient motivation
The current ASHA Leader closes with a column by Laura Deer ostensibly about motivation for a student with a tough /r/ to crack. While the format inherently results in a certain level of triteness or simplicity, the theme is universal for our field, and can sometimes be easy to lose sight of, especially for those of us who are still rather green as clinicians.
I have a patient that is really...
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Link: Guys with Aspeger’s doing software quality... →
I know a family friend on the spectrum who is a draftsman. I think this sort of strengths-aware habilitation is going to be increasingly valuable and increasingly common as social programs continue to see more of a squeeze.
{link} {via Peter Cohen at The Loop}
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Link: Cheaper, shorter (usually), and apparently... →
The ABA Journal is not where one might usually expect to find a refernce to the fact that there are lots of SLP jobs out there. Take that, lawyers!
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#slpeeps →
If you read my blog, odds are you already follow most of the big speech names on Twitter and already know about this. If, somehow, you’ve missed it, however, #slpeeps gets appended to all sorts of interesting links, comments and questions from all walks of clinicians, researchers, and organizations. Track that hashtag. Track it now.
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Link: Quality Homework - A Smart Idea -... →
This is something that those of us who work with kids who have trouble learning already know quite a bit about. Average kids who aspire to be better than average know it too (they teach themselves these methods that work). I suppose the challenge to implementing effective strategies in the classroom and beyond lies in finding ways to apply them en masse rather than only via special interventions.
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Link: Scott Adams Blog: Systems →
I’m wondering if this form of thinking can/should be applied to our clinical practice. I certainly have my doubts that things like IEPs or insurance claims would readily welcome the sort of a change that a move from goals to systems might entail, but I can see the value in this line of thinking.