News Archives for October, 2006

Program at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, IL, to train SIU graduate students in the Communication Disorders and Sciences Program evolves into an official center offering evidence-ba

First ever therapeutic school and center for autism research broke ground October 30, 2006 in Chicago, IL.

Visual schedules allow the children to work independently by matching the pictures on their class assignments to the pictures organized on their work schedule.

For children with autism, music therapy may include clapping and dancing and may be used by itself or in combination with other therapies.

While there are approximately 50 therapies available, only a few have been scientifically validated.

Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) breaks tasks down into small pieces, so that children with autism can accomplish things that other children find intuitive.

Therapeutic riding can give children a reason to communicate and the opportunity to establish a relationship.

Animated Speech Corporation (ASC) launched a suite of tools based on an animated tutor - Timo - who provides children with an environment to help build vocabulary, comprehension, language, story seque

Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) has created an innovative program to repair vision.

Based on the child's individual needs, the classrooms are equipped with a number if aids including visual schedules.