There has been a huge spike in children presenting as transgender, with many commentators attributing this to a social contagion effect.
A US speech therapist has claimed that her clinic has seen a “364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers” due to mass mask-wearing. Jaclyn Theek, who runs a speech therapy clinic in Florida, told WPBF News (affiliated with ABC News) that before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, only 5% of her clinic’s […]
The decision to remove Speech and Language therapists from The Holy Family Deaf school in Cabra was made without consultaion with parents or the school – and will be “devastating” for deaf children, parents say, as it removes a vital and effective service from already disadvantaged children. Dáire Ryan a parent of a child attending […]
In 2016, a team led by UCLA’s Martin Monti reported that a 25-year-old man recovering from a coma had made remarkable progress following a treatment to jump-start his brain using ultrasound. Now, Monti and colleagues report in the journal Brain Stimulation that two more patients with severe brain injuries — both had been in what scientists call a […]