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Focus on Translational Neuroscience

September 4, 2007

Districts in New York, California are the latest to boost clinicians' salaries.

Translational Neuroscience: An Introduction

Translational neuroscience is the enterprise of observing, manipulating, measuring, and inferring how the brain gets its job done.

Medicare Provisions Would Help Professions

A health care bill that includes several Medicare provisions to expand childrens' health insurance passes the House but faces White House opposition.

Brain-Computer Interface

Research on an augmentative and alternative communication device is transforming electrical brain activity into communication.

Pragmatic Communication Disorders: New Intervention Approaches

An understanding of the basic neuropsychological mechanisms of pragmatic communication will allow the design of more effective intervention approaches for adolescents and adults with neurological disorders.

The Neurobiology of Reading and Dyslexia

Although dyslexia was first described more than a century ago, only within the last two decades have neuroscientists been able to determine the neural system influencing reading and reading disability through brain imaging studies.

Researchers Investigate Neural Basis for Aphasia Recovery

Brain imaging may one day guide us in determining the optimal extent and timing for aphasia treatment as well as which treatment approaches work best for which patients.

Teaming Up for Literacy in the Schools

An SLP begins a journey to literacy teaming in effort to close the literacy gap and intervene in the early elementary grades.

Survey Gathers CSD Data From 22 Countries

An ASHA-sponsored global survey shows that most countries have a written scope of practice and a formal mechanism for certifying/licensing professionals in communication sciences and disorders.

Educating Tomorrow's Speech-Language Pathologist

At the recent SLP Summit, a panel of presenters considered the changing demands of future work settings to create a picture of clinicians who will be ideally prepared to meet those demands.

Assessing Auditory Milestones in Children

Audiologists have both auditory and speech and language milestones to use as benchmarks for monitoring aspects of communication development. *Audiology*

Neuroimaging and Cochlear Implants

Researchers uncover differences between cochlear-implant users with good and minimal benefit and how aural rehabilitation changes the way the brain hears.

Glimpses Into the Speaking Brain

Imaging techniques provide new insight into speech-motor control and knowledge of the cerebral organization of speech production is slowly emerging.