Deaf children who get cochlear implants earliest get the biggest language boost, large study finds
...he ages of two and four years, during the critical language development period, and those who received them la...cochlear implant, having missed crucial speech and language development milestones." This "plasticity", or ability to keep learning new things, adds still more ......They're springtime rituals with names that speak a language of their own: walk-a-thons, bike-to-work week, Dump-Your-Plump month, walk-at-lunch week. These week-long and month-long programs reflect an employers commitment to work-place wellness programs, albeit an annual commitment, and it's a commitment tha...Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
...y child care score higher on tests of thinking and language skills than others who stay home or who receive lo... appeared to boost intellectual growth, memory and language skills. Differences were small but statistically significant. Those in lower quality care, for examp......show that Reminyl improves memory, orientation and language skills of patients with vascular dementia or a combination of Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular disease ("mixed" dementia) for at least 12 months. The results also showed that Reminyl improved or maintained the ability of these individuals to ...Uninsured patients don't manage chronic illness well, UCSF study finds
...roviding written guidelines in the patient's first language may facilitate this process. Third, providers should develop a treatment plan with uninsured patients. Even with patients who may never be seen again, patients carry this information with them to the next medical encounter. The findings are based o...Public schools may face shortage of speech-language pathologists
... to the growing number of students with speech and language disorders in the schools," Fraher said. "In the pa... problems can be difficult enough without adding a language barrier. "Children in our schools are becoming increasingly diverse, but we're not seeing a correspo...Poor reading skills have both physical, environmental causes
... asymmetry and low income demonstrated the weakest language mastery. "I think it's important to note that the... might interfere with left hemisphere dominance of language processing," suggests Linda Lombardino, Ph.D., another co-author at the Institute. The researchers ...Meningitis in infancy linked to developmental problems
...aregivers and schoolteachers are aware of possible language deficits and problems understanding language based material. "Simple educational interventions may help compensate for these deficits, improving ...Psychologists identify best aggression-prevention programs in schools
...ommunity. Location of school, cultural background, language barriers and ethnic issues all must be considered to ensure the most culturally appropriate program. -- Emphasize positive social behavior The overall goal of aggression prevention programs is to replace aggressive and violent behavior with pro-soc...Researchers recommend community advisory boards to prevent lapses in informed consent
... who share a common identity, history, symbols and language and culture, he said. For example, gay activists and gay HIV-affected individuals could serve on a CAB for an AIDS clinical trials group interested in recruiting participants from the gay community, Strauss said. Representatives from the African-Amer...Study: many poor children live in pain because barriers to dental care too great
...parents to just give up. The study also found that language is a particular frustration for Latinos, and some minorities perceive prejudices against them that make them want to stay away. Why do they work like this? a potential patient asked. If they dont work with Medicaid, or if they dont want Latinos, they...Honing the tools to identify clues to surviving cancer
...challenging task thatinvolves developing a natural language process, eliminating duplications,instituting standardization, and 'scrubbing' the data to eliminate personand place identifiers, according to Clement McDonald, M.D., the study'sprincipal investigator and a internationally known medical informaticspi......n interactive computer program that can bridge the language barrier. The touch-screen computer program will be able to translate basic health questions and answers from English to Spanish and vice versa. An audio track will be designed to help illiterate patients, who ...'Bird brains' take heart-our feathered friends are no slouch at cognition
...word combinations that roughly correspond to human language (such as "green birdie," or "do you want grape?"). But she does think it's an example of "rule-governed behavior," the understanding that complex tasks must be done according to a certain order. Birds don't have a Broca's area, but it does seem that...UNC, Wake Forest scholars work to reduce crimes against Hispanics in North Carolina
...re being victimized because of their ethnicity and language barriers, and that shouldnt happen. Dr. Thomas A...., and distributed educational materials to Spanish language newspapers and radio stations across the state and other outlets. An important topic addressed in t...Cycled light promotes growth in pre-term infants
...e developed sleep patterns earlier and have better language and cognitive development? We need to know the answers to these questions."...Good child care not harmful, has benefits, but poor care worrisome, U.S. study reveals
...higher scores on assessments of early learning and language development, Pianta said. However, they also were rated by mothers and teachers as not behaving quite as well as they should have. The importance of that finding, if any, remains unclear and controversial even among the researchers. Not surprisingly,...Eliminating health disparities requires community involvement
...eening were due to high un-insurance rates, severe language barriers to accessing even publicly funded care facilities, strong cultural taboos against men and women jointly discussing female examinations, long waits at doctors offices and reliance on traditional remedies. Other screening barriers included lac...Teaching computers to replace lost sounds
...ow, by starting with the typical sounds of a known language -- and the most popular transitions between them -- he can begin to reconstruct missing sequences by looking at the most probable options. Applications for this technology abound. For example, when a pilot communicates with the control tower, a word...At 2 years, cocaine babies suffer cognitive development effects
...signed infants a standard score reflecting memory, language and problem-solving abilities, as well as measurements of gross and fine motor control and coordination. Researchers found that for all trimesters, cocaine-using women used alcohol, marijuana and tobacco more frequently and in higher amounts than non...