Communications/Speech/Language Disorders

(Baltimore, MD)- Kennedy Krieger Institute announces a new training initiative and expansion of their psychology internship program, designed to provide future psychologists with unique training that will improve the availability and quality of mental health services for children with hearing loss or deafness.

Many of the children admitted to the inpatient rehabilitation unit at Kennedy Krieger have experienced a trauma or illness that resulted in needing a procedure called a tracheostomy. The procedure involves placing a tube in a patient’s neck to help with breathing, but the downside is that it robs the patient of the ability to speak.

Most 18-year-old girls love to talk. Maggie Piet is no exception. She just uses modern technology to do so.

Ask a young child what the toughest subject is in school, and he is likely to say math or reading. While there have been thousands of studies on reading disabilities and, consequently, methods developed for overcoming them there have been far fewer on math dysfunction. Michèle M. M.

When today's Kennedy Krieger Institute first opened its doors in 1967, its leaders were expected to continue and improve the state-of-the-art treatment services already available to children with cerebral palsy at the Children's Rehabilitation Institute, the original facility that became Kennedy Krieger, and to extend those services to children with a variety of other neurodevelopment

Several Kennedy Krieger faculty members will present lectures at the 26th annual "Spectrum of Developmental Disabilities" continuing education conference. The conference, scheduled for March 29-31, will focus on communication disorders in school-aged children.