Speech Language Therapy in the Park

08/04/2024

03/04/2023

Brain interfaces could let paralyzed people speak at almost normal speeds.

07/13/2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hospital-acquired-pneumonia-killing-patients-simple-way-stop-rcna37330?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2chJB1b6F2XwA-NFg5le6woZZV-TF_pjEBVhGXTnwLM7UUhPw29fo30VI&fs=e&s=cl

Brushing a patient’s teeth is basic care that often gets skipped when hospitals are busy. Experts warn the danger of unbrushed teeth is greater than realized.

02/23/2022

Speech-language pathologists in health care settings are increasingly reporting a disturbing trend: facility administrators are designating occupational therapists to provide services—such as dysphagia treatment—that are within SLPs’ scope of practice, and asking SLPs to cross-trai...

07/15/2021

So cool

In a once unimagined accomplishment, electrodes implanted in the man’s brain transmit signals to a computer that displays his words.

06/05/2021

03/05/2021

Feel Good Friday

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/05/22/blackbird-mikmaq-indigenous-language?fbclid=IwAR1oF7x_Q5630vsv-XBWFSPxzFgfdyRbnnOJgYrZCWUD28E6D3jbnLNXaas

Sixteen-year-old high school student Emma Stevens sang a version of The Beatles' "Blackbird" in her native Mi'kmaq.

03/04/2021

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946766?src=WNL_dne_210304_mscpedit&uac=163004MJ&impID=3227089&faf=1

Regular caffeine consumption appears to be tied to decreased gray matter volume, but only temporarily.

02/07/2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-55660877?fbclid=IwAR2b246w9boApV8kGuU5ohp5OgSeLUKbe41rt9_cMKUViKR_axQbXDJI7a8

Spending weeks on a ventilator means many are left unable to talk, eat or drink after coronavirus.