Hearing/Speech

The St. Olaf College team's findings on song recognition in the fly Ormia ochracea are part of special on 'How Enemies Shape Communication Systems' published in the journal 'Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution'Credit: Norman Lee NORTHFIELD,…

ALEXANDRIA, VA--The most current research on head and neck cancer, cochlear implants, techniques in tonsillectomies, opioid prescribing patterns, residency matching, and other topics related to otolaryngology-head and neck surgery will be…

Credit: Photo by Niclas Lofgren In a group of internationally adopted children with cleft lip and/or palate, speech at age five is impaired compared to a corresponding group of children born in Sweden, a study shows. The adopted…

Study of Medicare HMO participants, whose insurance covers part of hearing aid cost, reveals disparities in use and difference in incidence of major conditions after 3 years Older adults who get a hearing aid for a newly diagnosed hearing…

Use of hearing aids was linked with lower risks of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, depression, anxiety, and injurious falls in an analysis of medical information on 114,862 older adults with hearing loss. The findings…

Interspeech 2019 is the annual conference of the International Speech Communication Association and the world's largest event on the science and technology of spoken language. A record number of visitors is expected at the 20th conference…

UC Riverside-led open-label pilot study leads to a double-blind clinical trial to further test ecopipam's efficacy and safety in adult patients who stutterCredit: UCR School of Medicine RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team led by a…

Credit: Copyright: Mihai et al. 2019, CC-BY license In many households, it is impossible to imagine life without language assistants - they switch devices on or off, report on news from all over the world or know what the weather…

Discovery could lead to targets for new therapiesCredit: Tae-Un Han, Ph.D., National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Researchers believe that stuttering - a potentially lifelong and debilitating speech disorder…

Researchers need 3,000 Australian stutterers for an international study that is searching for the genes in human DNA which cause stuttering. The largest study of its kind into stuttering aims to help develop treatments that target the…