Buffalo State assistant music professor J. Tomás Henriques created a unique therapeutic device to treat speech and hearing disorders and memory loss, among other things.
A new approach to teaching pre-kindergarten could take a bite out of the achievement gap and level the playing field for America’s growing population of English language learners, according to a recently published study by researchers at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development.
The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research at the University of Chicago shows. By using words to reference objects in the visual environment, parents can help young children learn new words, according to the research.
A team of speech scientists and psychologists discuss a novel approach to deciphering Armstrong’s famous moon landing quote. The work will be presented at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013), held June 2-7 in Montreal.
Over half of the world’s languages are endangered. The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages is working with Native Americans to revitalize their languages before they are gone forever. During a two-week program, participants will connect with libraries, archives and museums to support language learning and teaching. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will host Breath of Life workshops June 9–21.
If you’re a left-brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear, according to a newly published study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The study – to appear online in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery – shows a strong correlation between brain dominance and the ear used to listen to a cell phone.
With the NCAA basketball finals underway a voice can easily go hoarse from the yelling and hoopla -- just ask Sir Charles Barkley. Here’s how to prevent or care for a hoarse voice.
Study by Kennedy Krieger’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders reveals key predictors of speech gains.
One of literature’s oldest mysteries is a step closer to being solved. A new study dates Homer's The Iliad to 762 BCE and adds a quantitative means of testing ideas about history by analyzing the evolution of language.
As a bird sings, some neurons in its brain prepare to make the next sounds while others are synchronized with the current notes—a coordination of physical actions and brain activity that is needed to produce complex movements. The finding that may lead to new ways of understanding human speech production.
Experts offer advice on remaining professional in how you speak.
A team of researchers at UC San Francisco has uncovered the neurological basis of speech motor control, the complex coordinated activity of tiny brain regions that controls our lips, jaw, tongue and larynx as we speak.
Several Kansas State University researchers are helping children with auditory processing disorder receive better treatment. They have developed a program that uses evidence-based practices and incorporates speech-language pathologists into therapy.
Using a brain-imaging technique that examines the entire infant brain, researchers have found that the anatomy of certain brain areas – the hippocampus and cerebellum – can predict children’s language abilities at 1 year of age.
Researchers at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health developed a speech technique to aid stroke victims with aphasia.
Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered. The study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought.
Considering President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney are seeking the nation’s top job, watching Monday’s Presidential debate could be just the prep needed to ace your next job interview. While pointing fingers, interrupting and smirking are never recommended in a professional setting, job seekers can learn a lot from the candidates’ speech and body language.
Drawing on one another's expertise, a trio of faculty researchers from different areas of campus has created a patent-pending device that could change the lives of people who stutter.
A dictionary of thousands of words chronicling the everyday lives of people in ancient Egypt — including what taxes they paid, what they expected in a marriage and how much work they had to do for the government — has been completed. The ancient language is Demotic Egyptian, a name given by the Greeks to denote it was the tongue of the demos, or common peopl
Scientists have unraveled how our brain cells encode the pronunciation of individual vowels in speech. The discovery could lead to new technology that verbalizes the unspoken words of people paralyzed by injury or disease.
Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as “boys have short hair,” can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at New York University and Princeton University has found.
Infants are able to detect how speech communicates unobservable intentions, researchers at New York University and McGill University have found in a study that sheds new light on how early in life we can rely on language to acquire knowledge about matters that go beyond first-hand experiences.
The ability of infants to recognize speech is more sophisticated than previously known, researchers in NYU’s Department of Psychology have found. Their study showed that infants, as early as nine months old, could make distinctions between speech and non-speech sounds in both humans and animals.
Thanks to collaborative research at the University of Kentucky, a kindergartener born with a neuromuscular disability is learning to speak, using an iPad as a communication aid.
With the help of customized software, touch screens, and tablet computers, a small group of bonobo apes in Iowa proves that language is not the exclusive domain of humans.
For the ears, a cocktail party presents a chaotic scene: glasses clink, voices buzz, light piano music may waft down from the stage. A group of researchers at The John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., is trying to understand how the brain makes sense of such complex auditory environments. The team is testing how humans track sound patterns over time, and under what circumstances the brain registers that the pattern has been broken.
A U.S.-Netherlands research collaboration discovered that actual actions on objects, such as physically stirring a spoon in a cup, have less of an impact on the brain’s understanding of speech than simply gesturing as if stirring a spoon in a cup.
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.
A new study finds that brain processing involvement in the decoding of Arabic is different to the involvement in reading Hebrew and English, which makes learning Arabic more challenging.
We all love a good story. But what is Story? Boise State University Foundational Studies professor Clay Morgan can answer that question and explore the background, evolution, and context of Story.
What is a Maine-born doctor to do when a patient in Pennsylvania complains, “I’ve been riftin’ and I’ve got jags in my leaders?” Consult the Dictionary of American Regional English to learn that the patient has been belching and experiencing sharp pains in his neck. After nearly five decades of work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the fifth volume of the dictionary, covering Sl to Z, is now available from Harvard University Press.
A new study out of the University of South Carolina and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine provides the first look at racial differences in doctor's unspoken language when treating patients.
Research shows that English is strongly biased toward being positive. This new study complements another study published Dec. 7 by the same University of Vermont scientists that attracted wide media attention showing that average global happiness, based on Twitter data, has been dropping for the past two years. Combined, the two studies show that short-term average happiness has dropped -- against the backdrop of the long-term fundamental positivity of the English language.
A professor discovers the key to helping students understand complex linguistic principles is through the funny bone.
New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them.
A professor has found that children recognize and understand sarcastic comments better when the comments that are used are conventional. Her findings could help children recognize and understand sarcasm better, as well as help better convey social meanings to children with language impairment or who are on the autism spectrum.
Children’s reasoning about language and race can take unexpected turns, according to University of Chicago researchers, who found that for younger white children in particular, language can loom larger than race in defining a person’s identity.
Previous studies have suggested a particular hotspot in the brain might be responsible for perceiving pitch, but auditory neuroscientists are still debating whether this “pitch center” actually exists. A review article discusses a recent study claiming the pitch center may not exist after all, or may not be located where research has suggested.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have obtained new evidence that at least some persistent stuttering is caused by mutations in a gene governing not speech, but a metabolic pathway involved in recycling old cell parts. Beyond a simple association, the study provides the first evidence that mutations affecting cellular recycling centers called lysosomes actually play a role in causing some people to stutter.
Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, according to a study that is the first to show that learning to use a wide range of spatial words predicts children’s later spatial thinking, which is important in mathematics and science.
When we talk, the delicate tissues of the voice box vibrate faster than the eye can see to convey a complex range of meaning. But researchers and physicians are finally able to visualize and investigate this physiological feat, thanks to the development of a high-speed imaging system by a research team at the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. The team’s goal is to improve vocal health by understanding the movements of the vocal folds.
Scientists suggest that it is early experience with language—and not special innate cognitive ability—that allows human beings to process and perceive speech while their closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees, do not.
Use of folic acid supplements by women in Norway in the period 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception was associated with a reduced risk of the child having severe language delay at age 3 years, according to a study in the October 12 issue of JAMA.
CLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches.
The largest patient population at the Jefferson Voice and Swallowing Center is teachers. The fall season seems to be the heaviest time frame for teacher appointments at the Center.
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.
Dr. Courtney Byrd established the Developmental Stuttering Lab in 2006 to examine the causes of stuttering and provide evidence-based treatment to children and adults who stutter.
How do babies decode all the spoken sounds they hear to learn words and their meanings? An “alien” language may provide a clue, according to new research to be presented at the 161st annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Seattle, Wash.
It is not uncommon for us to draw knee-jerk conclusions about people based on how they speak. Those snap judgments aren’t always inaccurate—even when based on less than a single word, according to a new study to be presented at this month’s Acoustical Society of America meeting in Seattle.
An infant child’s cries are his or her way of communicating with the world. However, the baby’s cries have more information to communicate beyond saying “I’m hungry,” or “I’m tired.” The complexity of melody and rhythm within a cry can be an early indicator of a child’s pre-speech development. A new study compares the cries of two-month-old infants with cleft lip or palate and those without this condition and finds indications of developmental differences.
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