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Alexander disease is a devastating brain disease that almost nobody has heard of — unless someone in the family is afflicted with it. Alexander disease strikes young or old, and in children destroys white matter in the front of the brain.
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“Lots of families didn’t know how to talk about it. Does a 3-year-old really understand when one of their parents in is jail?"
As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy nears, Marsha Mailick, PhD, discusses the role the Kennedy family played in establishing the precursor to the Waisman Center and their greater legacy of developmental disabilities research and inclusion. View the video here.
ASHA Press Release Susan Ellis Weismer, a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center Principal Investigator, and Associate Dean in the College of Letters & Science at UW–Madison has been selected to receive ASHA Honors of the Association. This prestigious honor, bestowed by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association places Ellis Weismer among …
More than 450 people gathered at the Monona Terrace on October 17 to celebrate 40 years of the Waisman Center’s groundbreaking research, clinical care and outreach services. Community members, Waisman Center scientists, early education advocates and individuals and families served by the Waisman Center celebrated together as special guest UW–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank lauded the …
Giizhik Klawiter has autism and began drawing at six years old as a therapeutic outlet. For the last five years, Giizhik and his brother Mino have designed holiday greeting cards and sold them in their hometown of Hayward, Wis. with the help of their mother, Pam Miller. The colorful and unique cards provide an opportunity …
A collaborative team of researchers has used next generation sequencing to identify clinically relevant genetic variants associated with a rare pediatric speech disorder. The findings are published in the September 16, 2013 issue of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders http://www.jneurodevdisorders.com/content/5/1/29. Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a rare, severe speech disorder that in some patients …
“Carrying a child puts such a restraint on the space our lungs have to breathe,” said Edelman, whose husband, Matt, and 2-year-old daughter, Madelyn, are also of short stature.
Susannah Brooks, UW Communications As UW–Madison makes plans to create a new framework for diversity and inclusion, each member of the UW–Madison community is being asked to bear shared responsibility for success — moving “Forward Together.” “With the new leadership of Chancellor Rebecca Blank and interim Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick J. Sims, …
