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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.

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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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.

A man who’s never used a computer spends a long time with 3 popular web browsers. How does this affect how we look at things like AAC?

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I forget who first turned me on to The Last Psych, but I’ve been reading him for a couple of months now, and can hardly get enough. This particular story distills one of the big problems I have with “the academy” (though certainly not all of them) quite succinctly; it merely happens to be about the fact that there’s nothing tying vaccinations to Autism.

Anybody else find it odd that despite linking to ASHA’s norms, the only people the author quotes are other M.D.s?

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a New York Times article

This woman’s experience with her physicians in being diagnosed with early-onset helps bring home the point that we all need to be our own advocates whenever possible. It’s also a heads-up for all medical professionals: that a dx isn’t probable doesn’t mean you won’t ever see it.

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A reminder from Roger Ebert that while a patient is in the hospital, NPO is all about what they can’t eat or drink. Once they get out, it’s about who they’re not eating and drinking with.

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