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Released: 16-Nov-2017 3:30 PM EST
KU Grant to Examine Comprehensive Approach to Preventing Youth Violence in KC
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

A four-year, $1.7 million U.S. Health & Human Services grant will examine the effect of the combined support of multiple organizations and agencies on the same group of youth to prevent violence in Kansas City, Kansas.

Released: 19-Sep-2017 12:05 PM EDT
$2.3m Grant to Fund New Direction in Autism Spectrum Disorders Research at KU
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Study will define motor deficits in autism spectrum disorders from childhood through adulthood. The long-term goal to learn about the causes of both motor and related behavioral issues to develop more objective, biologically based targets for treatment.

   
Released: 15-Feb-2017 2:00 PM EST
Getting Inside Teens’ Heads: Study Upsets Beliefs About Feelings and Exercise Probability
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

A pilot study tracking adolescents’ internal psychological states and physical activity in near real-time challenges prevailing assumptions about how to increase physical activity.

   
Released: 14-Feb-2017 7:00 AM EST
Parenting Significantly Impacts Development of Children with Fragile X Syndrome
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

A longitudinal study of children with Fragile X Syndrome, the leading genetic cause of autism, and their mothers found that sustained maternal responsivity had a significant positive impact on the children's development, even mitigating declines often reported in middle childhood.

   
Released: 18-Jan-2017 2:00 PM EST
Reading Picture Books with Children Holds Promise for Treating a Common Language Disorder
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

A clinical trial of interactive book reading finds that children with Specific Language Impairment need to hear a word 36 times to learn it vs. 12 times for typically-developing children. Treatment materials are freely available to speech-language pathologists.

   
Released: 25-Oct-2016 5:50 PM EDT
Nutritional Supplement Could Prevent Thousands of Early Preterm Births
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Sophisticated analyses of two clinical trials suggest that thousands of early preterm births could be prevented if pregnant women took daily docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplements

Released: 9-Jun-2016 7:00 AM EDT
Researchers Awarded $2.4M NIH Grant to Study Leading Genetic Cause of Autism
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Ten-year study of the effect of parenting on the development and behavior of children with Fragile X Syndrome will continue into their adolescence and will continue to include their mothers.

Released: 25-Apr-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Award to Fund Research on Brain-Computer Interface Control of Communication Devices
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

University of Kansas neuroscientist Jonathan Brumberg has been awarded a $25,000 New Century Scholars Research Grant by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation to develop and test a brain-computer interface (BCI) that will directly control commercially available augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices for individuals with profound speech and motor disorders

Released: 11-Jan-2016 7:00 AM EST
Diabetes Self-Management and Support Improve Health Outcomes in Underserved Communities
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Evaluations of Bristol-Myers-Squibb-funded diabetes education and intervention efforts in five underserved communities showed improved clinical outcomes for participants.

Released: 8-Apr-2015 7:00 AM EDT
Children with Autism Can Learn to Be Social, Trial Shows
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

A joint University of Kansas and University of Washington randomized trial shows that teachers and speech therapists can teach children with autism how to be social with their peers.

Released: 10-Dec-2014 10:40 AM EST
University of Kansas Research Team Helps WHO Make Sense of Ebola Response Efforts
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

The University of Kansas World Health Organization Collaborating Centre is partnering with colleagues in West Africa to collect data on what activities and interventions helped stem the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia to inform future efforts.

Released: 21-Jul-2014 8:00 AM EDT
Large Twin Study Suggests That Language Delay Due More to Nature Than Nurture
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

A study of 473 sets of twins followed since birth found twins have twice the rate of language delay as do single-born children. Moreover, identical twins have greater rates of language delay than do non-identical twins, strengthening the case for the heritability of language.

Released: 19-May-2014 1:00 PM EDT
Severity, Not Frequency, of Abuse May Predict Mental Health Outcomes of Children in Foster Care
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

The first study from an on-going in-depth analysis of the mental health of children in foster care finds that severity, rather than frequency or type of abuse, appears to predict later serious mental health outcomes.

Released: 19-May-2014 10:00 AM EDT
Keywords Hold Our Vocabulary Together in Memory
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Like key players in social networks, University of Kansas scientists have found evidence that there are keywords in word networks that hold together groups of words in our memory. The existence of keywords opens up many possible real-life applications such as helping individuals with word finding after stroke. Conversely, removing a keyword through psycholinguistic tasks, could actually disrupt language processing - fracturing our word network.

Released: 14-Apr-2014 12:00 PM EDT
Researchers Pioneer Telemedicine Training for Rural Parents of Children with Autism
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

University of Kansas autism researchers have developed an effective distance parent training program to address critical shortage of ABA-trained professionals in rural communities.

   
Released: 19-Nov-2013 2:00 PM EST
Sex of Speaker Affects Listener Language Processing
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Grammar and syntax have been thought for decades to be automatic and untouchable by other brain processes and that everything else — the sex of the speaker, their dialect, etc. — is stripped away as our brains process the sound signal of a word and store it as an abstract form. A University of Kansas study suggests that even higher-level processes – in this case – grammar - are affected by information about the speaker.

Released: 7-Nov-2013 8:00 AM EST
Study Shows That Parenting Improves with Coaching via Cell Phone
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

First randomized trial shows that texts and calls from parent coaches to young, at-risk mothers improved their parenting skills as well as their well-being and that of their children.

Released: 20-Aug-2013 8:00 AM EDT
$1.7M Granted for Unique Communication Measure of People with Severe Disabilities
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

University of Kansas researchers will continue to develop a unique measure of the communication status of individuals with a wide range of intellectual and developmental disabilities with little or no speech.

Released: 14-Aug-2013 12:00 PM EDT
Study Finds Prenatal Anti-HIV Meds Not Linked to Children’s Language Delays
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Typical combinations of anti-HIV medications do not appear to cause language delays in children who where exposed to HIV in the womb and whose mothers took the antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy.

Released: 13-Aug-2013 2:00 PM EDT
DHA-Enriched Formula in Infancy Linked to Positive Cognitive Outcomes in Childhood
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

While the effect of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) in infant formula on children's cognitive development may not always be evident on standardized developmental tasks at 18 months, significant effects may emerge later on more specific or fine-grained tasks.

Released: 29-Jul-2013 9:00 AM EDT
KU Autism Researchers Get $1.2 Million to Test iPad App to Help Children with Social Communication
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Autism researchers at the University of Kansas will test an iPad voice output app to help preschoolers with autism and their classmates communicate.

   
Released: 10-Apr-2013 11:00 AM EDT
$1.5 Million Clinical Trial Will Test Book Reading to Treat Language Impairment
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

The University of Kansas will test Interactive book reading in a five-year clinical trial as a possible treatment for children with Specific Language Impairment who represent about 7 percent of kindergarten children.

Released: 25-Feb-2013 12:50 PM EST
Prenatal DHA Reduces Early Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

Infants of mothers who were given 600 milligrams of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA during pregnancy weighed more at birth and were less likely to be very low birth weight and born before 34 weeks gestation than infants of mothers who were given a placebo.

Released: 12-Jul-2012 11:35 AM EDT
Saliva and Pupil Size Differences in Autism Show System in Overdrive
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

University of Kansas researchers have found potential biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that include pupil size and a salivary enzyme. These findings have the potential to significantly impact screening and detection of ASD, as they can be non-invasively measured in infancy, and may hold key to neural pathology of the disorder within the autonomic nervous system.

Released: 16-Apr-2012 11:00 AM EDT
KU Researchers Find Further Evidence of Disturbed Immune System in Autism
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

One of the largest studies of its kind to date found disturbed levels of cytokines in the plasma of children with autism disorder: in particular, five related to the T-helper cell immune system and three involved in hematopoiesis.

Released: 23-Mar-2012 10:45 AM EDT
New Way to Assess Communication of People with Severe Disabilities
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

A new measurement tool for researchers and clinicians to measure the status and response to intervention of people with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities who communicate with gestures, body movements and vocalizations.

Released: 10-Feb-2012 1:00 PM EST
Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Trial: Study to Evaluate Long-Term Effects on Intelligence, Behavior
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

University of Kansas conducts ten-year randomized controlled trial of prenatal supplementation with omega-3 fatty acid to evaluate long-term effects on children's intelligence and school success.

Released: 16-Nov-2011 11:30 AM EST
University of Kansas Helps World Health Organization Build Global Supports for Health Promotion
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

KU researchers helped develop the PAHO/WHO Guide for Documenting Health Promotion Initiatives, the framework for the organization’s Virtual Community on Health Promotion.

Released: 19-Sep-2011 4:00 PM EDT
Enriched Formula Benefits Developing Brain and Heart
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

First randomized clinical trial of postnatal DHA supplementation of infant formula to measure attention shows cognitive and cardiac benefits.

Released: 31-Aug-2011 3:00 PM EDT
Researchers Improve Effectiveness of Early Head Start
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

University of Kansas researchers help Early Head Start home visitors screen children for communication problems and recommend research-based home interventions to parents through "intelligent agent" online system.

Released: 31-May-2011 12:15 PM EDT
Bilingualism No Big Deal for Brain
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

There are many complicated theories on how the brain processes more than one language but a University of Kansas scientist found that how words sound provides enough information to distinguish which language a word belongs to.

   
Released: 22-Apr-2011 1:00 PM EDT
Processing Speed, More than Memory, Impacts Communication in Normal Aging
University of Kansas, Life Span Institute

In a five-year Language Across the Life Span Project funded by the National Institute on Aging, University of Kansas Distinguished Professor Susan Kemper has identified the aging brain’s slower processing speed as the prime candidate in typical communication problems of healthy older adults.


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