Hearing/Speech

Children at highest risk because auditory system maturation incomplete, normal hearing health vital for learning, socialization MELVILLE, N.Y., June 10, 2021 -- As more and more people are taking advantage of music on the go, personal…

The social consequences of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and its effects on memory and attention span are among the studies to be presented at CHITEL 2021 7.58% of children suffer from Specific Language Impairment (SLI). In other…

Acoustical environments can prevent, reduce behavioral and psychological symptomsCredit: Arezoo Talebzadeh, Ghent University MELVILLE, N.Y., June 9, 2021 -- Designing a soundscape to improve the quality of life for an individual is…

Speech patterns of children are often compared with those of adults, but this ignores developmental and socioeconomic factors that affect how young kids talk MELVILLE, N.Y., June 8, 2021 -- Variations in children's speech has traditionally…

Though masks are necessary for curbing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, their impacts on teachers' speech intelligibility may affect students' learningCredit: Jason Getz, Kennesaw State University MELVILLE, N.Y., June 8, 2021…

Media representatives can register to attend; topics cover pandemic, vocals, moth wings MELVILLE, N.Y., June 7, 2021 -- Press conferences at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will cover the latest in acoustical…

An international subject pool was studied to confirm the effectiveness of a whole food complete vitamin and meal replacement product, IQed. The article, co-authored by Lisa Geng; Francine Hamel, EdD, SLP-CCC; Doreen Lewis, Ph.D., appeared…

Machine learning is being applied to gauge which vocalizations are predictive of ASDCredit: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio SAN ANTONIO (May 27, 2021) -- One-fifth of babies who inherit a genetic variant…

-Breakthrough discovery will pave the way for the development of the world's first pharmacological interventions against hearing loss-Credit: Takehiko Ueyama Professor UEYAMA Takehiko (Biosignal Research Center, Kobe…

Bisphosphonates, commonly prescribed to reduce bone fracture risks, were not shown to alter likelihood of hearing loss BOSTON -- Hearing loss is the third most common chronic health condition in the United States. Previous studies of…

Extra funding should be made available for early years care in the wake of the pandemic, researchers say. Experts at the University of Leeds, University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University have made the call after assessing the…

A supersensitised brain connection has been identified in people who suffer from misophonia, an extreme reaction to "trigger" sounds. For the first time, researchers led by Newcastle University, have discovered increased connectivity in…

Finnish researchers have been the first to determine the cause for the nonsyndromic early-onset hereditary canine hearing loss in Rottweilers. The gene defect was identified in a gene relevant to the sense of hearing. The study can also…

What The Study Did: These preliminary findings using U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System data in the early phase of societal COVID-19 vaccination using two messenger RNA vaccines suggest…

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have found a key new piece of the puzzle in the quest to use gene therapy to enable people born deaf to hear. The work centers around a large gene responsible for an inner-ear…

UTSA has established a wearables and artificial intelligence laboratory to provide precision treatment plans to improve learning among those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Researchers will automate data collection and…

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 12, 2021 - There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child's ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the ensuing two years compared with giving…

NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded project could help people with paralysis to communicateCredit: Image courtesy of Shenoy lab & Erika Woodrum (artist) Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to restore the…

To make sense of complex environments, brain waves constantly adapt, compensating for drastically different sound and vision processing speeds Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds.…

Credit: Sanna Hedin Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have made several discoveries on the functioning mechanisms of the inner hair cells of the ear, which convert sounds into nerve signals that are processed in the brain.…