| I first developed the concept of becoming
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| | featured on the cover of USA today. My
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| symptom-free of disability when I was
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| | articles are recommended by The American
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| working on my Career Development Award
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| | Speech & Hearing Association as
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| from The National Institutes of Health.
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| | examples of Best Practices.
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| As a brain scientist working for the most
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| | Changing the Brain
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| rigorous medical research facility in the
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| | All of these populations have symptoms in
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| world, I discovered that many disorders
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| | attention, memory, listening, reading,
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| thought to be due to permanent brain
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| | writing or speaking. At the time of our
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| malfunction could actually be improved to
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| | research in stuttering for example, this
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| a symptom-free status.
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| | disorder was thought to be a chronic life
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| Brain Based Communication Disorders
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| | long disability. Therapy was organized
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| At this time, many years before my own
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| | around support groups to manage living
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| autistic son, Whitney was born, I was
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| | with the problem or therapy to
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| studying 4 populations:
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| | desensitize you so you did not feel as
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| 1.Preschool Children With Language
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| | bad when you stuttered. I headed a
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| Disorders
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| | research team working on helping
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| My staff and I evaluated 600 Head Start
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| | stutterers become symptom free which
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| children per year for 12 years and
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| | resulted in changing how therapists view
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| provided a multiple therapy approach to
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| | stuttering world wide. As a result, I
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| help children become ready for school.
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| | began to see other populations of the
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| Our average Headstart child was 2 years
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| | communication-impaired differently and
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| behind and was within normal range after
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| | started setting goals for symptom free
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| 20 sessions.
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| | with all of my patient groups. From this
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| 2.School Age Speech-Language impaired
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| | research we learned how to make step by
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| Children
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| | step plans to change the brain to reduce
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| We evaluated thousands of children as an
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| | or eliminate symptoms.
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| outreach program to private schools and
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| | Turning Disability to Ability
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| offered hospital based outpatient
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| | We found that the fastest way to reach a
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| treatment for children who were having
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| | symptom free goal is to evaluate and
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| trouble at school due to language
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| | train positive behaviors. With stutterers
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| processing disorders.
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| | for example, instead of working on
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| 3.Stutterers
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| | getting the stuttering to stop, we worked
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| I treated thousands of stutterers
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| | on teaching the behaviors that would
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| world-wide and wrote Stutter-Free Speech
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| | compete with stuttering and replace the
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| (Charles Merrill Publishers), which lead
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| | behavior. Now we do that with the
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| to awards from The White House and an
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| | symptoms of autism. We teach the
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| Oprah interview.
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| | attention, memory and communication
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| 4.Brain Damaged Hospital Patients
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| | skills that compete with autism to
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| I provided rehabilitation team services
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| | replace the symptoms. As a result, we are
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| to in-patients and out-patients with
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| | able to turn severe disability into life
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| brain injuries and strokes. My work was
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| | long ability.
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| honored by many federal agencies, and
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