Word: conditioner
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OTs have been treating SPD, also known as sensory integration dysfunction, since 1972, when A. Jean Ayres, a University of Southern California (USC) psychologist and occupational therapist, published the first book on the condition. As defined by Ayres and others, SPD is a mixed bag of syndromes, but all involve...
SPD research so far is provocative but limited. "It's hard to get grants for a disorder that doesn't exist," laments Miller, whose recent book, Sensational Kids, offers a guide to both research and treatment. Many studies are flawed by vague criteria for identifying the condition, samples that include...
Talk is cheap, and economists and laymen alike have a strikingly poor record of predicting recessions. But there are good reasons to be concerned that the economy is weakening. They involve struggling banks, the collapsing housing market, the volatile stock market, oil prices, the weak dollar and lots of nervous...
It is precisely the threat of non-passage of the trade agreement that has led to the improvement on that investigative front, say Colombian union leaders. "Without that pressure from the U.S. the Colombian government would not be acting to clear up these cases and seek convictions," says Jose Luciano...
But their demands are not without reason, even if they lack proletarian appeal. Of course writers deserve a cut of whatever profits are made in streaming video. Of course it’s outrageous that they receive only one third of a cent per dollar of royalties—they?...