Heather Jenkins Harris
Speech-Language Pathologist
8477 S SUNCOAST BLVD HOMOSASSA FL, 34446About
Dr. Heather Harris is a speech language pathologist practicing in HOMOSASSA, FL. Dr. Harris specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Harris evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Harris helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Minireview: developmental regulation of thyrotropin receptor gene expression in the fetal and newborn thyroid.
- Does thyroxine improve development in children with Down syndrome?
- Euthyroid autoimmune thyroiditis in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus: to treat or not to treat?
- Persistence of thyrotropin (TSH) receptor antibodies in children and adolescents with Graves' disease treated using antithyroid medication.
- Fetal and postnatal growth: mechanisms, consequences and controversies.
- Patient information page from the hormone foundation. Congenital hypothyroidism.
- Autoimmune thyroid disease: unlocking a complex puzzle.
- Prevalence and functional significance of thyrotropin receptor blocking antibodies in children and adolescents with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis.
- Thyroid hormone in childhood obesity--no "quick fix".
- Low iodine content in the diets of hospitalized preterm infants.
- Severe maternal hypothyroidism corrected prior to the third trimester is associated with normal cognitive outcome in the offspring.
- Autoimmune thyroiditis in childhood.
- Generic and brand-name L-thyroxine are not bioequivalent for children with severe congenital hypothyroidism.
- Hypothyroidism in the newborn period.
- Genetic analysis in young-age-of-onset Graves' disease reveals new susceptibility loci.
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