Okay - wow! This past week I finished reading Lisa Genova's newest book, Inside the O'Brien's...
SLP Book Club, book review | in books Melt-down. Tantrum. Challenging behavior. Whatever you call it, at its core is the lack of skills needed to navigate emotional upset and/or disregulation. Self-Regulation is one of those all important executive function skills. It is "the ability to manage emotional upset and behavior", and a skill set that is particularly difficult to learn for children with language/communication disorders.
Our March/April SLP Online Book Club selection was Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism by Arthur Fleischmann, with contributions by Carly Fleischmann. "In a world of silence, communication is everywhere. You just have to know how to look." -- Carly Fleischmann
Autism, SLP Book Club | in books I joined a book club. An online book club for speech-language pathologists. We read our first book this month: Where Is The Mango Princess?
SLP Book Club, TBI, brain injury | in books This book beautifully illustrates what can happen when we presume competence. When we look past the exterior and truly see the human being within. When we stop treating individuals with disabilities as “other”, “different”, “less than”...
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