How to Sneak in Physical Therapy on Vacation
How to Sneak in Physical Therapy on Vacation Spring break approaches. Summer approaches. Trips are planned. What you canโt always plan, however, is getting the physical activity your child might...
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Organizing Your Childโs Brain Through Crawling and Creeping
Crawling and Creeping When I first met Benjamin Thompson, he was struggling with echolalia (unsolicited repetition of vocalizations), extreme hyperactivity, self-biting, and poor eating and sleep habits. He had been...
7 Speech Activities for Valentineโs Day Using Conversation Hearts
Speech Activities for Valentineโs Day After almost three months in the NICU, my son came home with a tracheotomy and g-tube. I am no stranger to speech and feeding therapy....
Pharmacogenetics: Genetic Testing for Personalized Medical Treatment
Pharmacogenetics The more we learn about genetics, the better able we are to impact a myriad of health conditions through personalized medical treatment. The unique tailoring of customized therapies to...
Notes from the Editor โAlternative Therapiesโ
Welcome to our LARGEST issue to date! In this issue, we are proud to present
Your Aura and Its Connection to Alternative Medicine
In 2006, I resigned my faculty position at the medical school where I had worked for twelve years. I felt strongly that there had to be a better way, a...
Happy is Healthy
Happy is Healthy Healthy is something we all strive for, whether for ourselves or for our kids. As adults it can be activities including going to the gym, cutting back...
Helmets have Little Effect on Correcting Deformed Infant Skulls
Noel about 9 months old. Image courtesy xlinked.blogspot.com The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal The head of a healthy newborn has soft spots and sutures that allow the skull to grow and...
Private Duty Nursing: What Is It? Why You Need It? And How to Get It
Private Duty Nursing I am a mom of a special needs child that is medically complex. For the ๏ฌrst 2 years of his life, my husband and I did everything...
Treasured Tradition: Expressing Gratitude and Encouraging Speech Around the Table
In an effort to help encourage speech, language, communications and conversations with my daughter, we started a little tradition
