Innovations in hearing loss detection & treatment
...ng the complaint of a patient unable to understand speech in a noisy background. With information about the word-recognition performance of patients in background noise, audiologists can optimize the aural rehabilitation strategy concerning counseling and amplification. Repeated exposure to sentence materi...Study looks at the pros and cons of voice recognition
...ell-checking, filtering reports, losing macros and speech files, and other glitches that have slowed us down," says Dr. Gross. "In addition we've also had problems with the system interfacing with our RIS system. We've had situations where our voice recognition system has overwritten changes we've made t...Bridge Medical joins NPSF and 34 organizations in convening historic Congress
...tect patients. As President George Bush said, in a speech this week in Washington to the American Medical Association's National Advocacy Conference, "Patient safety is improved when doctors and nurses exchange information about problems and solutions." That's exactly what will happen Mar. 12-15 at the Rena...Brief exposure to Mandarin can help American infants learn Chinese
...ears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first...nter for Mind, Brain & Learning and a professor of speech and hearing sciences, has shown in earlier work that children are born "citizens of the world" with ...New book highlights ergonomics research on sound
...role in living and working environments. Automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis are used daily by millions of people in applications such as telephone directory assistanc...Screening children for speech problems is ineffective
Both parental concerns and screening for speech and language problems fail to identify many presch...are the performance of two methods for identifying speech and language problems in preschool children in a deprived inner city area of London. They randomly a...Map data goes live with voice, gesture-based computer system
...ize speech-gesture interfaces. The recognition of speech and gesture is the first step for the system that researchers say can improve and streamline decision making for crisis management personnel and others. "Our goal is to make the system understand the users' information needs based on high-level know...Womens stroke symptoms differ from mens, often arent 'traditional' signs, study finds
...walk. There was no difference between the sexes in speech problems, facial muscle problems, dizziness/vertigo, sensation, language, visual problems or unclassifiable neurologic symptoms. A majority of patients -- 58 percent -- reported multiple symptoms. Women's symptoms overall were not only less tradition...Analysis finds drug improves odds of complete stroke recovery
...functioning including a patient's visual capacity, speech and orientation. Altogether, 583 patients received placebo and 789 were given citicoline. Patients' average age was 68; about half were male; and four-fifths were white. Average time-to-treatment from symptom onset was about 14.5 hours in both gro...New Parkinson's surgical procedure shows lasting benefits, according to Emory researchers
...movement benefits and in the absence of cognitive, speech or balance side effects. These problems were known complications of previous attempts at using bilateral brain lesions that targeted other areas of the brain like the thalamus and globus pallidus. We are encouraged by the long-term efficacy and saf...Airport noise impairs long-term memory and reading
...of airport noise on reading, memory, attention and speech perception in children, is published in Psycholog... linked to reading deficits and may interfere with speech perception and long-term memory in primary school children," says Evans. "But it wasn't until we had...Right side of brain learns language skills after stroke
...rst demonstration that learning and, by extension, speech therapy change the way compensatory pathways in th...the brain houses most of the areas responsible for speech and language, a left-sided stroke often causes language problems, a condition known as aphasia. Abou...For the blind, a computer navigation system with its own map
.... -- University of Florida researchers have wedded speech recognition software, wearable computers, satellite positioning technology and other emerging technologies in a 21st-century navigational aid for the blind. Composed of a waist-worn computer and headset connected remotely to a map database server, th...Activism may help those with AIDS cope better with illness
... Dale Brashers, the lead author and a professor of speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "They have had a major impact on the health-care system, such as changes in how prescription drugs are tested and approved. Now it appears that their behaviors also are reflected in m...Mechanism behind stuttering revealed
...ed signal transmission in this area prevents fluid speech production. The authors comment that: "This abnorm...y develops during the period of early language and speech acquisition in which many children experience a transient phase of stuttering. Our methods could be ...Medication effective in treating children with autism
...der, and then access health care, occupational and speech therapy, special education and possibly applied behavioral analysis to help the children develop skills. Even then, the children may still present behavioral problems. That's a lot on your plate. "Risperidone is popular in clinical circles, and this...Computerized phone chats can motivate couch potatoes
...hed a computerized program, which used synthesized speech to ask questions about current activity levels and readiness to change behavior. The computer also relayed comments on participants' responses. Subjects provided answers using their telephone keypads. The computer program assessed the participants' m...New research brain abnormalities appear early in psychoses
... brain mainly related to memory and recognition of speech (the temporal lobe) were shrunk compared with those of healthy people. These findings, to be published in the July issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, suggest that brain scans, using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) could be used to screen f...Do stroke therapies really work?
...backfiring. Instead of helping people recover lost speech or movement, they could be making the problems worse. That's the conclusion of researchers who found that people who have had strokes were better able to recall words after they silenced parts of the brain that therapies stimulate. Stroke is caused...Alcoholics have 'blunted' responses to psychological stressors such as public speaking
...when we asked them to prepare and memorize a short speech and then deliver the speech to a video camera, the patients reacted with little or no change in heart rate, and of course, they ...