Monthly Archives: January 2010
Expert Panel Concludes Wind Turbine Sounds Not Harmful To Human Health
A multidisciplinary panel has concluded that the sounds generated by wind turbines are not harmful to human health, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced today.
from Docuticker
Baby Lectures to Focus on Language and Learning
“Raising Healthy Infants: Language and Learning” is this year’s theme for the Center for Children and Families’ annual lecture series, which begins in February.
Caution in administering traditional neuropsychological tests to individuals whose native language is spanish
An online article on the site of the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) advises caution in the administration of traditional neuropsychological assessments to spanish speaking individuals.
from Brain Injury Blog
Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten
With only 3.000 speakers in Northwest Siberia the Ob-Ugrian language Mansi is on the verge of extinction. Predictions say it will be extinct in ten to twenty years at the latest. The same holds true for Khanti, a member of the same language family. It is for this reason that extensive documentation is so important.
from ScienceDaily.com
Wearing helmet could lead to noise-induced hearing loss
Wearing a crash helmet is essential to a motorcyclist’s safety but could it actually be harming their health and affecting their riding?
from News-Medical.net
Design Vs. Dyslexia: Innovation Promises New Hope for Children With Dyslexia
Reading and retaining information. That’s the challenge faced by the one in five children who have some form of dyslexia.
from ScienceDaily.com
Autism Therapy Web Site Healing Thresholds Redesigned for Parents — Enhances Role as Definitive Source for Autism Therapy Information
Healing Thresholds has been redesigned and relaunched to make it even easier for parents to find detailed information on more than 1,000 autism therapy topics. The redesign allows for all of the relevant content for each therapy topic to be displayed on a single page. Examples of therapy topics include speech therapy, essential fatty acids, and movement therapy. The content includes fully-referenced fact sheets, research summaries, news summaries, and user comments. The result is that, as Healing Thresholds enters its fourth year, its users have improved discovery and access to the carefully researched and written content available on the site. The therapies are listed at http://autism.healingthresholds.com/therapy.
from PRWeb.com
Study finds drop in age-related hearing problems
Sweet news for baby boomers: Despite all those warnings that loud rock music would damage their ears, their generation appears to have better hearing than their parents did.
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In fact, a new study suggests that the rate of hearing problems at ages ranging from 45 to 75 has been dropping for years, at least among white Americans.
from Yahoo! Health
Florida Commits To Provide Effective Communication For Deaf And Hard-of-Hearing Persons
The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) will provide qualified sign language interpreters as required by federal law to deaf and hard-of-hearing persons using its programs and services across the state under a Settlement Agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Helping Parents Help Children With Hearing Loss
To help parents and professionals guide children with hearing loss along the path to adulthood, the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders hosted a conference on Jan. 7-8 titled, “Learning Through the Years: Strategies for Excelling at All Ages.”
Rush University Medical Center Leads Nationwide Clinical Trial Of Nutritional Drink For Alzheimer’s
Rush University Medical Center is leading a nationwide clinical trial of a nutritional drink to determine whether it can improve cognitive performance in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s.
Music in speech equals empathy in heart?
Brain study finds intriguing connection between prosody — the intonation of speech — and empathy
from EurekAlert.org
Basic Emotions Shared and Understood by All Humans, Study Finds
Laugh and the world laughs with you, literally. A new study suggests laughter is part of a universal language of basic emotions that all humans share.
Researchers found that people from the UK and a remote African tribe were able to recognize basic emotions such as amusement, anger, fear, and sadness through simple sounds like laughter even though they came from very different cultures and languages.
Mixed-Handed Children More Likely to Have Mental Health, Language and Scholastic Problems, Study Finds
Children who are mixed-handed, or ambidextrous, are more likely to have mental health, language and scholastic problems in childhood than right- or left-handed children, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.
from EurekAlert.org
Kindles Used to Boost 3rd-Graders’ Reading Skills
Reading on the Kindle will get students to read books independently, but it is also all inclusive and boosts their reading and critical-thinking skills regardless of reading level, said Deanna Isley, who teaches reading to all of the school’s third-graders and decided to apply for a grant to do the project.
fromWebMD.com
