Pediatric Feeding Disorder is best PREVENTED! like our Communication Disorders.\u00a0 Cohen & Dilfer (2022;article posted) provides convincing evidence for PFD to be considered an automatic qualifying diagnosis for EI services. READ on! Great read.<\/p>\n
2022_PERSP-20-00259<\/a><\/p>\n SPRING 2022<\/p>\n Tiffany Field found that imitating the child<\/span> with Autism enhances Social Behavior (known as Copying by Hanen or Mirroring in other intervention frameworks).<\/p>\n Field, T. (2017). Imitation Enhances Social Behavior of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review. Behavioral Development Bulletin, 22(1), 86-93.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Recycle this important article to the CLINICIAN’s Corner.<\/p>\n Echolalia is PART OF language development for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Stiegler, 2015). According to Marge Blanc lays out 6 stages to Natural Language Development (reviewed by Stiegler, 2015) and echolalia aids children with ASD to move into word combinations and spontaneous utterances. We should not extinguish Echolalia. Echolalia is communication!<\/p>\n Stiegler, L. (2015). Examining the Echolalia Literature: Where <\/p>\n FALL 2020<\/p>\n Ethics and Cultural Competence are on everyone’s mind.\u00a0https:\/\/www.asha.org\/practice\/ethics\/cultural-and-linguistic-competence\/<\/a><\/p>\n Culture and language may influence the behaviors of individuals but they do not imply deficits.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have heard folks complain about fulfilling the new ethics requirement from ASHA. We need to keep up with ethical standards\u00a0 – all of us, and educate ourselves on the up-to-date standards in all areas of practice, especially ethics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are 2 exciting evidence-based updates for NICU Practice!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. There are evidence-based guidelines put forth by an international panel of experts for NICU practice<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FALL 2019<\/p>\n This Term’s Clinical Topic:\u00a0 Echolalia<\/p>\n Stiegler (2015) shows us the position of ASHA: Echolalia is a communication tool.\u00a0 Echolalia is a strategy – to participate in communication and to formulate and understand language.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Echolalia serves a variety of pragmatic functions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Extinction of echolalia is not appropriate because it serves communicative functions as children with autism spectrum disorder progress through Natural Language Acquisition (adapted from Marge Blanc in the article are stages children with ASD progress through).<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n Summer 2018<\/p>\n Picky Eating in the Toddler Years ! Totally Normal. We have found in the Literature Refusal increases to 40% of the time!\u00a0 Here is a popular press article by CNN that quotes clinical experts!<\/p>\n Don’t Pressure Your Picky Eater – It Doesn’t Work!<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/30\/health\/picky-eater-toddler-study\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fall 2017<\/p>\n An interesting dialogue regarding when infants have learned their name, as well as Mommy and Daddy.\u00a0 In clinical screenings (and evaluation) SLPs should always call the child’s name from behind by 6-7 months.\u00a0 Immediate Audiology referral for “failing to turn to name call”.\u00a0 I follow up in my screening with a “name + tactile cue”.<\/p>\n “There is a series of papers showing that they have learnt the word form of their own name it by 5 months…. They have started assigning a meaning to “mommy” and “daddy” (Tincoff & Juszcyk, 1999):<\/p>\n Mandel, D. R., Jusczyk, P. W., & Pisoni, D. B. (1995). Infants’ recognition of the sound patterns of their own names.\u00a0Psychological Science<\/i>,\u00a06<\/i>(5), 314-317.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bouchon, C., Floccia, C., Fux, T., Adda\u2010Decker, M., & Nazzi, T. (2015). Call me Alix, not Elix: vowels are more important than consonants in own\u2010name recognition at 5 months.\u00a0Developmental science<\/i>,\u00a018<\/i>(4), 587-598.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Delle Luche, C., Floccia, C., Granjon, L., & Nazzi, T. (2017). Infants’ First Words are not Phonetically Specified: Own Name Recognition in British English\u2010Learning 5\u2010Month\u2010Olds.\u00a0Infancy<\/i>,\u00a022<\/i>(3), 362-388.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Summer 2017<\/p>\n A highlight from my Early Intervention course!<\/p>\n Caregiver-Child Dyad observations<\/a>\u00a0occur each year in the graduate level course in Early Intervention at SHU.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fall 2016<\/p>\n Susan Ebbels’ shape coding program was a terrific find! \u00a0Every year we read her work in the Language Development and Disorders graduate course. \u00a0This semester we found her formalized program and website:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.moorhouseschool.co.uk\/shape-coding<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDo Speech-Language Pathologists Stand?. AJSLP, 24, 750-762.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/dlcl\/files\/2020\/07\/holdbaby.jpg\")
<\/a>SUMMER 2020<\/p>\n\n