Mrs. Dorothy A Aitken SLP- CCC
Speech-Language Pathologist
17 BAYCREST DRIVE SOUTH BURLINGTON VT, 05403About
Dr. Dorothy Aitken is a speech language pathologist practicing in SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. Dr. Aitken specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Aitken 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. Aitken 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- Urinary free beta hCG, beta core fragment and total oestriol as markers of Down syndrome in the second trimester of pregnancy.
- Gene mapping by exclusion: the current status.
- Second trimester levels of pregnancy associated plasma protein-A in cases of trisomy 18.
- Deriving risks of Down's syndrome from nuchal translucency measurements.
- Placental synthesis of oestriol in Down's syndrome pregnancies.
- Is maternal serum total hCG a marker of trisomy 21 in the first trimester of pregnancy?
- Regional assignment of nucleoside phosphorylase by exclusion to 14q13.
- Regional assignment of nucleoside phosphorylase by exclusion to 14q13.
- Placental and maternal serum inhibin-A and activin-A levels in Down's syndrome pregnancies.
- Diffuse hyperplasia of intratarsal ectopic lacrimal gland tissue.
- Temporal changes in maternal serum biochemical markers of trisomy 21 across the first and second trimester of pregnancy.
- Residual debris as a potential cause of postphacoemulsification endophthalmitis.
- The effect of temporal variation in biochemical markers of trisomy 21 across the
- Free beta-hCG as first-trimester marker for fetal trisomy.
- Variation in the levels of pregnancy-specific beta-1-glycoprotein in maternal serum from chromosomally abnormal pregnancies.
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