I am a Speech Language Pathologist. I work for the Anchorage School District. I work primarily with preschool children with communication differences and difficulties such as autism spectrum disorder, phonological disorders, language impairments, cognitive delays, and swallowing and feeding difficulties.
Cheri Fraker, CCC/SLP, CLC is an ASHA certified pediatric speech pathologist and certified lactation consultant. She provides therapy services at The Center for Neuromuscular Services and is the clinic feeding specialist for The Center for Selective Eating and Pediatric Feeding Disorders, a multi-disciplinary feeding team clinic at Kids at Koke Mill. Cheri developed the techniques of...
My name is Danielle I was born with sensorineural hearing loss due to unknown cause. I was raised by a hearing family. I was in special ed and speech classes my whole life. I know how to speech very well that you wouldnt even notice I was hearing impaired. I learned ASL five years ago in college because my hearing has dropped. I experienced Sudden Deafness in Sept 2008 in my right ear...
I write a blog about the journey we're on raising our deaf toddler, Ethan. He has bilateral cochlear implants and hears fairly well with them, yet he is also apraxic and noverbal, so we are using sign language to communicate despite the fact that he hears. He was born with cytomegalovirus, which has left it's imprint on his life in many ways. We're busy going to PT, OT, speech, an allergist, a...
I am an anatomic Pathologist with special experience in Oncopathology.Oncopathology deals with diagnostic tests related to Cancer.
I have been trained in Pathology at university of Pune India (M.D.)and at University of Toronto,Canada.(FRCPC)
My Oncopatology blog deals with the importance of pathologists in management of cancer.It also posts recent advances in cancer diagnosis and management.
I'm the mom to 3 year old Austin and 1 year old Kaitlin. Austin was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in October of 2007. Since then, we have been working hard towards his recovery through therapy, biomed treatments, and diet changes. He's had a little bit of speech/occupational therapy since April 2006 but has only had intensive ABA therapy since August of 2008. At the time of...
I am a semi-retired pathologist who was a faculty member at the University of Michigan Medical School for 33 years. I have also run a yearly conference about the clinical lab industry and laboratory information systems for 27 years. My blog, Lab Soft News, has been in existence for more than three years and covers both the lab industry and healthcare in general.
I am a stay at home mother to 7 children. My blog is about my youngest child Ava, who was born profoundly deaf in June, 2008. She received cochlear implants and had them activated when she was 10 months old. Today she has age appropriate speech and language. The blog is about Ava's journey to the hearing world and I regularly report on her progress, challenges and everyday life with a deaf...
