Maternal Mortality – Is skilled care at delivery the answer?

By: Erin Lieber Each year, childbirth and near term complications take the lives of roughly 529,000 women, with the most deaths taking place in sub-Saharan Africa (Blum et al. 2006). Most developing countries have adopted a multi-pronged approach in an effort to reduce maternal mortality. The strategy stems from the “Safe Motherhood” (SM) campaign and concentrates [...]

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Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder: Myth or Reality?

By Kimberly Mayo-Achan MA, CCC-SLP Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder is the most commonly studied and diagnosed disorder in children. In the United States alone, it is estimated that approximately 6 million children are currently diagnosed with ADHD, as opposed to 1985, where that number was just at 500,000. Because of the large and [...]

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Is Your Child Getting Enough Vitamin D?

By Kimberly Mayo-Achan MA, CCC-SLP Do you give your child a multivitamin every day? Do you make sure they eat their fruits and vegetables to get their daily recommended dose of nutrients? Of course you do, so there is no way your child could be deficient in Vitamin D, right? Think again. According to a new [...]

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Does Baby Einstein make my baby an ‘Einstein’?

by Kimberly Mayo-Achan MA, CCC-SLP Everybody wants their baby to be the smartest, brightest, most gifted child on the block, so naturally, as parents, we tend to buy products that represent themselves in such a way that makes consumers believe just this. There are many products on the market, but products with names such as Baby [...]

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When will my baby talk?

By Kimberly Mayo-Achan MA, CCC-SLP Having a baby is one of the most exciting events that can happen in your lifetime. Once your child is born, you wait eagerly for them to reach each developmental milestone, with the hopes that on the very day they are supposed to master a skill, they do so perfectly. [...]

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National Standards Report on Autism

by Kimberly Mayo-Achan MA, CCC-SLP Since the number of children being diagnosed with autism has steadily increased over the last few years, the need for effective treatment of this disorder has become extremely prevalent. In the fall of 2009, the National Standards Report, which is one of the most comprehensive analysis of treatments for children and adolescents [...]

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