Project Building Bridges: A Framework for Preparing Highly Qualified Speech-Language Pathologists to Serve Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students With Augmentative and Alternative Communication Needs.

Purpose: Project Building Bridges was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs to address the shortage of speech-language pathologists qualified to serve students with complex communication needs who benefit from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and are culturally and linguistically diverse.

Encephalopathy in a newborn due to prenatal lead exposure.

We present a case of neonatal seizures and encephalopathy with peripheral neuropathy. Long bone radiographs demonstrated sclerotic changes. Elevated serum lead concentrations were later found in both the child and mother, resulting in the diagnosis of neonatal encephalopathy secondary to prenatal lead exposure.