A Review of Attention, Memory, Word Finding, and Executive Function to Support Client Rehabilitation in a Group Therapy Setting

This paper is a review of attention, memory, word finding, and executive function to support individuals with deficits in these areas seen in a rehabilitative speech-language therapy setting. Each chapter contains a definition of the domain and describes the subdomains included. The chapters also include the neurology associated with the domain and common disorders that include deficits in the areas of attention, memory, word finding, and executive functioning. At the end of each chapter, recommended treatment principles are provided to guide therapy with each domain. This paper was created to accompany a therapy manual titled “Providing Connections Through Group Therapy” in order to treat a variety of patients with deficits in attention, memory, word finding, and executive function. The research in this paper assisted in forming accommodations and lesson plans directed toward the adaption of an inclusive therapy program. The research and therapy manual can guide speech-language pathology graduate students and certified clinicians to implement a group therapy program encompassing a variety of different patients

Efficacy Results of a Trial of a Herpes Simplex Vaccine

Two previous studies of a herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) subunit vaccine containing glycoprotein D in HSV-discordant couples revealed 73% and 74% efficacy against genital disease in women who were negative for both HSV type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 antibodies. Efficacy was not observed in men or HSV-1 seropositive women

Adventures in Crowdsourcing: A Digital Odyssey from Lower Manhattan to Google Earth to Build a Museum Without Walls

cultureNOW has been developing a guidebook to the world outside thru smartphone technology to create a museum without walls. The exponentially growing digital collection currently contains about 18,000 sites, 52,000 images, 2550 podcasts, and 53 self-guided tours. 90 cities and arts organizations are partners to share their content. It is a collection that lives only in the cloud and can be accessed from everywhere, created by a group of ‘accidental librarians’ who are learning as they go about how to access and structure the content to reach its audience. It is very much a work in progress. These are some of our Adventures in Crowdsourcing