Deaf children who get cochlear implants earliest get the biggest language boost, large study finds
...ests to measure their ability to recognize sounds, words and sentences. Overall, the results showed a strong combined effect of age at implantation and the length time the children had had their implants. Cochlear implants are electronic devices that transform speech and other sounds into electrical impuls...Some autistic people have memory advantage for certain tasks
... subjects' ability to recognize which words had been on a word list. ...y thought that they recognized words that were in fact not on the list. But these "wrong" words tended to fit the con...Millennium, Aventis Pharma form novel alliance
...rket conditions, and other statements that include words like "may," "expects," believes," and "intends," and that describe opinions about future events. Known and unknown risks may cause Millennium's actual results and performances to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these state...Treatment helps dyslexics significantly improve reading, shows brain changes as children learn
...o use different strategies for translating written words into spoken words. The treatment was novel because...ificant gains in analyzing sounds needed to decode words and in sounding out unknown words. After the workshop all but one of the boys could read grade appr...Map makers can avoid confusing the color blind
... amounts of information that do provide a thousand words in one picture, if the viewer can see the picture as it is intended. One way to accommodate red/green color blindness and still use a rainbow scheme is simply to skip over one of the offending colors. "If we use a scheme that goes red to blue and l...Earlier detection for breast cancer in sight
...rom malignant and non-malignant tissues. In other words we have the prospect of a new and extremely sensitive in-vivo diagnostic technique." This new structural information is available from the X-rays which are normally discarded from conventional mammograms and can therefore be collected simultaneous...Stereotypes of aging may have significant effect on gaits of older persons
...lity, independence for elderly BOSTON--Positive words picked up the walking pace of older persons, accor...roup played a 30-minute computer game that flashed words associated with aging stereotypes on the screen. The words flashed by too quickly to read, but slow ...Personal story aims to improve 'connections' between hard of hearing and the hearing world
...ng to be better understood creates a distortion of words and sounds -- not greater understanding. "It's more important to speak slowly and more distinctly to a partner or loved one who is hard of hearing," she says. "If one person has hearing loss and the partner knows it and raises his or her voice with a...Improving burn diagnosis and insights into perfect pitch at acoustics press conference
...ttained by associating pitches with meaningful words very early in life. (See lay language paper at http://www.acoustics.org/138th/deutsch.htm ) SOUNDING OUT THE CONTENTS OF DANGEROUS CHEMICALDRUMS Dan Costley University of Mississippi (601-324-2479, dcostley@mil-tec.com ) ...... withhearing loss find it difficult to hear spoken words on the telephone. Theconventional method for dealing with this problem is to jack up the sound at thereceiving end, but sometimes this does not improve matters very much. AmySheffield and her colleagues at Ohio State University ( sheffield.20@osu.......eing imaged. Three of the tests involved pairs of words andthe fourth used pairs of musical tones. ...word pairs thatconsisted of either two non-rhyming words such as "fly" and "church," tworhyming words such as "fly" and "eye," a non-rhyming real word and no...Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners
...ld'sfirst machine system that can recognize spoken words better than humans can. Afundamental rethinking o...chool of Engineering. The system can distinguished words in vast amounts of random "white" noise,noise with amplitude 1,000 times the strength of the target ...Study finds concussions affect brain behavior in hockey players
...hing a button to keeping a running mental count of words presented on acomputer screen -- while brain function is monitored. Motor control andco-ordination tests are also carried out. "We found that the functional brain responses lookedsignificantly different in players with concussions aft...Follow-up phone calls by nurses benefit cancer patients
...eir treatment,"Mishel adds. "We teach patients the words to use to get the health careprovider's attention. How to phrase the problem to avoid being triaged out bythe office nurse." In women with breast cancer, preliminary findings from the 8-week follow-upprogram of weekly telephone calls are positive. ...Men and women agree: love, romance vital part of sexual person
... of older men, to evaluate 300 words as to whether they describe...s pared the list down to 27 words that had the mostrelevance to men's sexuality. Some of these words includedag...False recall in older adults and Alzheimer's linked to attention, not memory, breakdown
...Center. Subjects were read a list of 12 associated words that strongly suggest anothernon-presented critical target word, and later asked to recall words on the list.Imagine being read a list of words, such as Bed, Rest, Awake, Tired, Dream,Wake, Snooze,...Is handwriting truly individual? UB computer scientists are finding out
...f the Ramseys, were made to write some of the same words that appearedin the ransom note so that investigators could compare them with the originaldocument. Many less-sensational cases involve forged wills and other handwrittendocuments. A 1993 Supreme Court decision stated that in order f......tending with more complications. "I can't put into words the emotional stress that the family went through, butparticularly her because she had dealt with not being well all of her life,"said Scarlett, who with her husband, Walter Small, Sr., has two other children,ages 27 and 19. "Instead of things gettin...Cochlear Implant Increases Access To Mainstream Education
...rofound hearing loss (cannot discriminate sound in words and language) and donot benefitfrom high-powered hearing aids. Cochlear implants have been found to be amongthe most cost-effective medical procedures, ranking above other medical interventions likecoronary arterybypass surgery and cardiac transplant...... "Because children may not have the words to expressthat they're afraid or worried, characteristics appearingin human-figure drawings can reveal some forms of serious anxiety," said Nancy Ryan-Wenger, professor of ...