“I’m an apraxia person” The heartwarming story by a young man from Singapore of his long difficult journey to his discovery that he grew up with and is dealing with apraxia. I received the following private message on Facebook from Lim who has provided a photo and permission to share. If there is any professional…
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A Lost Language Can Be Good
There are 6,909 distinct languages. While that may sound like a lot, I believe there are far more. Thousands of Languages We communicate through language, and most of us speak at least one. If you are reading this you probably speak, or least know how to read, English. According to an article in the Linguistic Society of…
Study Finds 3 Year Olds Seek Social Norms Even Inferring Them Where Adults See None
Irrespective of what the children saw: they judged singular, spontaneous, and apparently purposeless behavior as generalizable and absolutely right – provided that it was not unintentional according to their observation. They even expected another person to do exactly the same and protested when this person did something different with the objects, thus violating the “social…
The Time My Nonverbal Son Got Lost
The next moments are a blur. It was a vast place crowded with people, and the sun was starting to set. Being most of it was a field where we just picked grapes I knew it would soon be pitch black. I felt all the blood rush out of my face, I literally thought…
Healthy Diet Boosts Children’s Reading Skills
“Another significant observation is that the associations of diet quality with reading skills were also independent of many confounding factors, such as socio-economic status, physical activity, body adiposity, and physical fitness” ~Eero Haapala, PhD What can be better than an educational study out of Finland? One that finds a healthy diet boosts children’s reading skills!…
The First Scientific Conference on Therapy for Verbal Apraxia/Dyspraxia
The First Scientific Conference on Therapy for Verbal Apraxia/Dyspraxia, held on July 23-24, 2001 at the Headquarters Plaza Hotel, Morristown, New Jersey under the auspices of the Cherab Foundation, focused on “Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) and Verbal Apraxia: A New Potential Therapeutic Intervention.” Post Conference Statement The panel discussed various clinical research alternatives including the…
Crowd Funnit
To a child, birthdays are more than just a cake Children all over the world, including your neighborhood, go year after year without anyone showing up to their birthday parties because they are either alienated, bullied or both. Founded by members of the Cherab Foundation along with like-minded souls who simply care, crowdFunnit fosters acceptance…
Late Talkers Silent Voices
40 Million Americans have a communication disorder – 1 in 12 are school-age children. Millions of kids struggle with expressive, receptive, fluency or voice issues – they struggle to be heard and to be understood. If that weren’t enough, they also deal with the assumption that their difference in communication reflects a difference in their…
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Pursuit of Research is the personal blog of Lisa Geng, the President and Founder of the Cherab Foundation. The Cherab Foundation is a world-wide nonprofit organization working to improve the communication skills and education of all children with speech and language delays and disorders. Our area of emphasis is verbal and oral apraxia, severe neurologically-based speech…