CHAT - Life Changing Speech Therapy has been chosen as one of eight Chicago region nonprofits to receive "Project Innovation" grants from the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation and NBCUniversal Local.
i remember thinking of myself, i m the default for the domestic tasks for my family. i sat down with her and the director of the film, jennifer seabold newsom, for a conversation about the imbalance and how we change it. so, going into watching a documentary that the two of you have put together, i knew i was going to cry. so the question was just, one of my going to cry in this documentary? and it s in the first 30 seconds when you just use the audio of the kickoff any of the morning routine. for a mom, for a working mom, there is so much in that noise. there is both of the running list in my own mind, all the things i need to do to get everybody else out the door, all the executive functioning that you talk about. and the sense that all of this work is just invisible. for you, what was the moment when that became clear? alicia, you know, this was ten years ago where my husband, seth, he sent me a text saying,
impact that gun violence is having on americans. it is really important for us to look at the whole picture. so, gun violence is not only about the tragic deaths, but it is about the trauma that occurs afterwards. we know the kids witness these kinds of events, have a dramatic response. they have more stress and difficulty with sleep. it happens acutely, and sometimes a month later, it could turn to post-traumatic stress disorder, which can turn into a very significant psychiatric disorder, which will affect executive functioning and social life, the ability to sleep, he and participate in the world. we also have some real facts. we know that if you are about five blocks away from where gun violence episodes occur, it will have an effect on you. we also know that gun violence affects kids of color and kids a poverty significantly more than the rest of the population. these are basic facts that we
Western Illinois University students participated in the 2022 WIU-Quad Cities and Online Student Research Conference April 25-29. A few students participated in live session recordings April 22 on campus.