UCLA medical student develops, markets communication board for intubated patients
... tubes that went through their vocal cords, making speech impossible. So he developed an easy-to-use augme...efit most from the board: rehabilitation medicine, speech pathology and critical care....Cancer patients in Europe unite with doctors
...n Parliament from Germany will also give a keynote speech at the Patient Seminar on the European perspective of quality cancer care. "There are few fields in clinical medicine that are expanding as rapidly as oncology, and better cooperation is vital ? not only for patients, but for physicians, too",...Certain types of schizophrenia may be linked to summer birth
...racterized by "negative" symptoms, such as blunted speech and expression, lack of emotional response, and ap...erience pleasure, lack of interest in socializing, speech deficits, blunted emotional response, poor eye contact, and more severe course of illness. Nondefic...Left and right ears not created equal as newborns process sound, finds UCLA/UA research
...loss in one or both ears, and help doctors enhance speech and language development in hearing-impaired newbo...fferently. The left side dominates in deciphering speech and other rapidly changing signals, while the right side leads in processing tones and music. Becau...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
...abulary, just as toddlers do as they listen to the speech around them before reading instruction even begins. Once the model could figure out meaning from sounds, the researchers showed it word spellings. Then, they asked it to read a variety of words and figure out what they meant. The model could use soun...Read my lips: UCL launches centre for human communication
...age disorders, ranging from stuttering and loss of speech to syndromes such as savant, Down's and William's ...s used by deaf people, where the face 'listens' to speech coming down the line and repeats it. This enables a non-deaf person to use their normal telephone to...Speech recognition experts at OGI School of Science & Engineering receive nearly $700,000 in grants
...an hearing within a "talking" computer so computer speech will sound more natural. Van Santen, a mathematica...o, Ore.-based OHSU school to focus on ways to make speech technology useful for education and health. Computer systems, obviously, do not hear the way humans ...News briefs from the journal CHEST, May 2004
...ocused care. The report features the inauguration speech of Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, President of the ACCP, and the new ACCP Patient-Focused Care Pledge, which emphasizes the health-care provider's role as a patient advocate and underscores the provider's responsibility to provide patient-focused care w...Merging hearing technologies sounds good to researcher
...aring aids and cochlear implants - to help improve speech understanding and sound quality for cochlear impla...ochlear implants, background noise can be reduced, speech understanding enhanced and sound quality improved for cochlear implant users. Chung collaborated wit...Emory researcher examines effects of antiepileptic drugs on pregnant women and their offspring
... realizing some of these children are experiencing speech delays, delays in walking and difficulties with fine motor skills. This study should help us notice the subtle differences in a child's ability to learn, and it should help us understand how to best care for pregnant women and their children." The NE...Apraxia of speech in children is focus of new OHSU grant
...ate a tool for diagnosing children with apraxia of speech -- a neurologically based speech motor disorder. Children with apraxia of speech have great difficulty planning and producing the spe...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...sounds, but they do not enable users to understand speech without lipreading. In contrast, the more sophis...e users the ability to detect tones and comprehend speech to a degree experienced by those who wear advanced cochlear implants. Bob Shannon of HEI will discu......urally and possibly suggest therapy for those with speech problems due to stroke. The advance comes as a res...f electrical engineering. MRI has been used for in speech research for more than a decade, said Byrd, who focuses her research on the production, perception a...A bird 'language' gene pinpointed
...of changes that would influence an advance such as speech or birdsong. "One advantage of using vocal learning birds," said Wada, "is that there are thousands of songbird species and several hundred parrot and hummingbird species that have vocal learning, but only one primate species that has vocal learning...Human studies show feasibility of brain-machine interfaces
...help both paralyzed people and those who have lost speech capabilities because of stroke or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). A key question in future clinical studies will be whether humans can incorporate such devices into their "schema," or neural representation of the external world,...New guidelines for cerebral palsy recommend early neuroimaging tests
...ental retardation, vision and hearing impairments, speech and language disorders and chewing and swallowing disorders, the initial assessment should include screening for these associated conditions," according to Ashwal. Cerebral palsy, a disorder affecting posture and movement due to a lesion in the devel...Univ. of Pittsburgh to lead international trial for vocal cord paralysis and paresis
...red cord, allowing for better contact and improved speech and swallowing. Vocal cord paralysis may be caused by chest and neck surgery, brain injury, neck injury, lung or thyroid cancer, certain neurologic conditions, a tumor pressing on a nerve, or a viral infection. In older people, vocal cord atrophy is...News tips from the American Heart Association
...e whites citing one-sided weakness or numbness and speech difficulties as early warnings. "These data support the need for targeted educational programs regarding stroke risk and symptoms, and underscore the importance of public health programs to improve awareness of stroke in women," researchers say. ......of RIT. All are part of the NIH-funded hearing and speech center....... match the signals provided by the implants to the speech sounds they heard and stored in memory before losing their hearing. To do so, they must overcome two simultaneous forms of distortion introduced by the implants -- the sound has lower frequency resolution and is shifted to a higher pitch. Mario Svir...