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Communication problems (eg, dysphonia, dysfluency and language and articulation disorders), swallowing disorders (dysphagia and globus), cough and upper airway symptoms, resulting from functional neurological disorder (FND), are commonly encountered by speech and language professionals. However, there are few descriptions in the literature of the most effective practical management approaches. This consensus document aims to provide recommendations for assessment and intervention that are relevant to both adults and young people. An international panel of speech and language professionals with expertise in FND were approached to take part. Participants responded individually by email to a set of key questions regarding best practice for assessment and interventions. Next, a video conference was held in which participants discussed and debated the answers to these key questions, aiming to achieve consensus on each issue. Drafts of the collated consensus recommendations were circulated until consensus was achieved. FND should be diagnosed on the basis of positive clinical features. Speech and language therapy for FND should address illness beliefs, self-directed attention and abnormal movement patterns through a process of education, symptomatic treatment and cognitive behavioural therapy within a supportive therapeutic environment. We provide specific examples of these strategies for different symptoms. Speech and language professionals have a key role in the management of people with communication and related symptoms of FND. It is intended that these expert recommendations serve as both a practical toolkit and a starting point for further research into evidence-based treatments.

In Convent Wisdom, Garriga and Urbita weave together the stories of nuns (mainly of the 16·-century Spanish variety), and modern-day quandaries like the dynamics of female friendship, work-life balance, and body image issues, with their own story as Ph.D. students/best friends/hosts of Las hijas de Felipe, a popular Spanishlanguage podcast on this topic. Yet they also show that life, whether lived in a convent or in grad-school housing, requires sisters (or brothers or siblings) who will walk through it with you. [...]if the nuns don't have the answer, Garriga and Urbita do; their example proves that perhaps friends and community can help just as much.

Just Making A Guide for Compassionate Creatives By Mitali Perkins Broadleaf Books, 178 pages Published May 6, 2025 Occasionally, novelist Mitali Perkins wondered if she could continue to make art. Each chapter draws upon different art forms as a base for discussion, and Perkins pays special attention to art that is often devalued by traditional power structures, such as quilting and cooking. With discussion questions for each chapter, this book would be an excellent study for a Sunday school class, discussion group, or even a group of artists within the church.

Levine looks closely at what Jesus, as described in the Gospels, does and says about issues that we still wonder about today: economics, race and ethnicity, family values and health care, for example. Per Levines title, this book is intended for anyone and everyone to find value in Jesus, including those, like herself, who do not see Jesus as a theological figure. [...]a previous title of her book was Jesus for Atheists.) She writes:

[...]of the uprising [following the death of Freddie Gray], many corner stores in the most impoverished neighborhoods in Baltimore were put out of commission. From the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1780s up until now, the black church has survived world wars, it has survived oppression, it has survived any number of economic downturns.

Bio: Rev. J. Barrett Lee is pastor of North Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., whose mission is to \"practice our ministry alongside people who live with mental illness.\" People think, \"What if some mentally ill person gets a gun and is going to shoot up a church or a school?\" But the reality is that people who live with mental illness are actually 10 times more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of violence.

McBath, the mother whose son was murdered for being black and present, identifies as pro-choice, while Schenck gained national attention for protesting women's health clinics in the early 1990s in Buffalo, N.Y. This already has the makings of a compelling story, but the film hits its stride not in character development but in the theological questions it poses. At times, the film's obvious purpose of reaching predominantly white evangelical Christian communities leaves little space for McBath and her work as an anti-gun advocate with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

I would give them books to read and pens to write with and most of all I would stop all poverty and it would be a happier world to live in.

Norma Rogers, a longtime resident of Cordova, shared stories of the early settlers and of more recent history in her talk at Cordova Branch Library this week. Norma's family moved to Cordova from Kentucky in the 1930s. Her husband, Wesley Rogers, can trace his family roots to the original Cordova settlers.