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    Program to Help Families Facing Autism Challenge

    Reaching out to families touched by autism, the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders is offering a pilot program to help parents facing a child's new diagnosis.

    Strategy Training and Response to Therapy (START) focuses on children 18 months to 5 years old who have been recently diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and who have received an autism assessment through Children’s Medical Center of Dallas..

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    A promising new therapy has made its way from Australia to the States. The Callier Center for Communication Disorders at University of Texas at Dallas is one of about 200 medical centers offering Neuromonics, a treatment device for tinnitus developed by an Australian audiologist, Dr. Paul Davis.

    Dallas audiologist Anne Howell, head of Callier's tinnitus clinic, says the treatment works by retraining neural pathways in the brain. As a result, the auditory system is desensitized to the sound.

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Speech pathologists should help diagnose depression in poststroke aphasia patients

Posted by Callier Library on October 19, 2007

from Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines (subscription required)

A review of previous studies shows that poststroke patients with aphasia have been included in depression diagnostic assessments, but researchers suggest depression and language experts should collaborate on a more valid method for diagnosing these patients reliably.

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One Response to “Speech pathologists should help diagnose depression in poststroke aphasia patients”

  1. Anti Depression Medication said

    October 19, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    looks like a positive development

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