| Children's Study Adds Research Centers |
| The National Children's Study is adding 22 new study centers in 26 additional communities across the United States, thanks to a $69 million appropriation from Congress in fiscal year 2007. |
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| Early Hearing Campaign Honored |
| ASHA received the prestigious Summit Award for its efforts in the area of newborn hearing screening from the American Society of Association Executives. |
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| Molecular Screening for Children With Hearing Loss: Why Do It? |
| Knowing the cause of a child's hearing loss may improve clinicans' abilities to provide gold-standard service. |
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| Newsmakers: Senator Tim Johnson |
| In December, Senator Tim Johnson suffered from a ruptured arteriovenous malformation that nearly killed him. Johnson discusses his return to the Senate, and his eight months of treatment, during which he learned how to improve his aphasia-slowed speech. |
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| Auditory Processing Disorder Evaluation |
| Motivation must be considered in APD evaluation, an area that needs further study. *Audiology* |
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| Treatment for Childhood Apraxia of Speech |
| When you work with a child with apraxia of speech, you gain a greater respect for the complexity of the speech task and why the understanding of motor learning theory is invaluable for treatment. |
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| Phonotrauma in Children |
| Rehabilitation of children with phonotrauma, or vocal abuse, involves much more than simply eliminating traumatic behaviors. It involves changing the culture of the home to help parents help their children change vocal habits. |
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