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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..

    Read the rest of the story at the UTD News Center

    A Cure For Tinnitus at UTD?

    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.

    Read the rest of the story at The Dallas Observer

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South Africa: Learning Disorder ‘Miracle Cure’ in Spotlight

Posted by Callier Library on February 26, 2008

from allAfrica.com

MIRACLE cure or expensive sham, the jury is out on the Dore Program — which promises “astounding” and “long-term” results for learning difficulties from dyslexia and dyspraxia to autism — that has reached SA.

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