Have you read the staggering statistics regarding the number of traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacting boys and girls of all ages? According to a press release distributed by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, each year U.S. hospital emergency departments treat over 170,000 sports- and recreation-related TBIs, including concussions, in children and teens—and more cases go unrecognized or…
Applying Technology to Support Social and Executive Functioning
We want to share an upcoming Continuing Education opportunity for speech language pathologists held at Emerson College in Boston on April 5, 2014. Here’s an overview of the workshop. This workshop will demonstrate a variety of visual and interactive applications that can be used with students with difficulties in social cognition and executive functioning, particularly…
Concussions from School Sports
Concussion statistics are alarming. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year at least 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries occur either as an isolated injury or along with other injuries. Therapy for students post concussion often involve training to increase speed of information processing, improving working memory, sustaining attention and increasing reaction…
Speech Therapy Helps Congresswoman Gabby Giffords Recover From Brain Injury
This week ABC News showed the world how Speech Language Pathologists work with individuals to improve their speech, and regain the ability to communicate and express oneself after brain injuries. In this video clip, we see how Congresswoman Gabby Giffords struggles, and then succeeds to find words to communicate with the help of speech therapy and…