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    Program to Help Families Facing Autism Challenge

    Reaching out to families touched by autism, the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders is offering a pilot program to help parents facing a child's new diagnosis.

    Strategy Training and Response to Therapy (START) focuses on children 18 months to 5 years old who have been recently diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and who have received an autism assessment through Children’s Medical Center of Dallas..

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    A Cure For Tinnitus at UTD?

    A promising new therapy has made its way from Australia to the States. The Callier Center for Communication Disorders at University of Texas at Dallas is one of about 200 medical centers offering Neuromonics, a treatment device for tinnitus developed by an Australian audiologist, Dr. Paul Davis.

    Dallas audiologist Anne Howell, head of Callier's tinnitus clinic, says the treatment works by retraining neural pathways in the brain. As a result, the auditory system is desensitized to the sound.

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How my daughter’s stammer was finally cured – by a hearing aid

Posted by Callier Library on April 18, 2008

from the Daily Mail.uk.co

The SpeechEasy device works by recreating the choral effect.

It looks – and is worn – like a hearing aid, and is placed behind the ear or inside the ear canal.

When someone with a stammer talks using a SpeechEasy, their words are captured on microphone and replayed in their ear at a slightly higher frequency (this helps them hear it better).

The SpeechEasy replays these words within 60 milliseconds – fooling the brain into thinking the stammerer is speaking at the same time as other people, triggering the choral effect.

According to manufacturers, the device has around an 80 per cent success rate.

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