When Sam Found Language
I will never forget the day that I met Sam. He came into my room cautiously and sat quietly. I greeted him and he smiled tentatively in return.
Sam came to me like most of my other students—severely language deprived. He was 8 years old, with bilateral cochlear implants, unable to speak, sign, read or write. Although he was a typical child developmentally and cognitively, he used tantrums to communicate.
I asked him how he was doing. He smiled again. I pointed to myself and signed my sign name. “Kim.” Then I pointed to him and gestured for him to introduce himself.
“Eh,” he said.
“How old are you?” I signed. ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kimberly Sanzo Tags: Audiology Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Apraxia of Speech Augmentative Alternative Communication hearing loss Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Film Series: Watching Big Fish Next to My Mother in the Hospital
Now, this is an interesting coincidence, as I was watching “Big Fish” on Amazon Video whilst visiting my mother during her last week in this world. I was summoned to Portland by my physician brother who told me that my mother was dying. She had been ill and we expected her to pass a year ago, but she rallied and was discharged from hospice. But now, she was having another heart attack and we had decided that with her progressive dementia and renal failure, she would not undergo dialysis. We had this discussion with her before the first heart attack and she had agreed with the plan. ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 9, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care advance care planning advance directives end of life planning syndicated Source Type: blogs
BioethicsTV: (September 23-28): #TheResident, #NewAmsterdam, #ChicagoMed
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Jump to New Amsterdam (Seasons 1; Episode 1): Infectious disease; mistaken diagnosis; Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 1): Emergency preparedness, risky surgery, and dehumanizing technology; Jump to Chicago Med (Season 4; Episode 1): Deaf culture
This week is the beginning of the new television season and the popularity of the medical drama is evident as a total of 5 prime time dramas hit the airwaves (The Resident, The Good Doctor, New Amsterdam, Chicago Med, and Grey’s Anatomy).… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 28, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: BioethicsTV Featured Posts #ChicagoMed #NewAmsterdam #TheResident Source Type: blogs
11 Tips to Improve a Child ’s Communication Using Signs
We see it every day with our young clients: When they’re hungry, thirsty, hurt, tired, or want a specific toy or activity, they whine, scream, point or grunt as their means of communication. This nonverbal communication creates a guessing game for the parent, caregiver or speech-language pathologist. Sometimes they guess correctly, but when they don’t, everyone involved can get frustrated, especially the child.
If you work with clients who fit this description, I find signing provides good results with most young children and their families.
Signing offers a useful and calming communication tool for many situations. I...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - September 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jill Eversmann Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Early Intervention hearing loss Language Disorders Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
The Future of Making Sense of the World
Hug shirts, smellphones, virtual tastes, bionic eyes and hearing aids doing translations – just a few keywords showing how technology will take human perception to a higher level in the future. Innovative healthcare solutions will go way beyond improving our senses when we experience problems, they will augment our capabilities and open new horizons for humanity. Let’s jump into the pool of details.
How humans perceive the sensory cacophony called the world
Car. Flower. Smartphone. Leaf. Shadow. Ponytail. Red Sweater. Monitor. Water. Coffee. Beeps. Sidney Bechet tunes. Bicycle. Laugh. Light breeze. Holiday memorie...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Cyborgization Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients body augmentation future Healthcare hearing human human perception Medicine sense sensing smell taste touch vision Source Type: blogs
Beyond the invisible gorilla – inattention can also render us numb and anosmic (without smell)
This study investigated touch awareness when the brain was already focusing on a touch task. But there’s evidence from earlier work that, for inattentional effects to occur, the two stimuli do not have to involve the same senses, and the new paper in Psychological Science on inattentional anosmia also finds this.
Charles Spence, head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford, and Sophie Forster at the University of Sussex, looked at the effects of performing a high vs. low attentional-load visual task on scent awareness.
Across a series of experiments, groups of participants had to repeatedly ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Perception Source Type: blogs
New Brewery Founded By Craft Brewers Who are Deaf
Thanks to three Gallaudet University graduates, Hyattsville, Maryland, is now the first East Coast location of a brewery fully owned and operated by people who are deaf. Streetcar 82 Brewing Co., founded by Jon Cetrano, Mark Burke and Sam Costner, is currently in a “soft launch” phase, with operating hours announced via its Facebook and Instagram accounts.
According the brewery’s website, the company derives its name from the 82 Streetcar line, which ran from 1888 to 1958 from downtown Washington, D.C., along Rhode Island Avenue, where the brewery is located. Plus, all founders felt a personal conn...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Audiology News Slider American Sign Langauge ASL deaf culture hard of hearing hearing loss Source Type: blogs
What My Son ’s Autism Diagnosis Taught Me as an SLP
Communication sciences and disorders professionals are often planners and fixers. We like to prepare for everything, and we want to “fix” everyone’s communication disorders. We got into this field because we wanted to help people, after all!
Late last year, I found myself in a personal situation for which I hadn’t prepared and I couldn’t “fix.” My son was diagnosed with autism at age 4.
People often ask me how I handled his diagnosis. Overall, I think I handled it well. I mean, I knew. I had seen the signs, and I knew what to expect—eventually. The official diagnosis didn’t shock or blindside ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 22, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Deidra Darst Tags: Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 20th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - August 19, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Hair Cells Essential to Hearing Remain Intact in Older Individuals, but Disconnected from the Brain
Hair cells are the sensors of the ear, picking up vibrations with tiny fibers that give the cells their name. Unfortunately, these cells are not replaced when lost in adult mammals. Loud noise, toxins, and some infectious diseases can cause sufficient loss of hair cells to induce deafness - a condition that currently lacks effective treatments. A sizable fraction of research into the causes of hearing loss has focused on hair cells in the ear, particularly with the growth of the regenerative medicine community. The restoration of lost cell populations is on the horizon, and hair cell regrowth is further advanced than many ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 16, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Optogenetic Cochlear Implants Aim to Improve Quality of Sound
At the University of Göttingen in Germany researchers have managed to use light to stimulate the auditory nerves of gerbils, in the process allowing the deaf animals to hear sounds. The technology is being developed to improve the audio quality of cochlear implants, devices that can bring hearing to people with several types of hearing loss. Though cochlear implants are getting better and better, and their popularity has surged, they suffer from poor frequency resolution. This results in garbled sound when listening to speech surrounded by noise, such as inside of loud restaurants.
Using light may solve this problem beca...
Source: Medgadget - August 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: ENT Genetics Source Type: blogs
The neural basis of word deafness: a frequency analysis
There are two competing theories regarding the neural basis of word deafness. Empirically we know that it can occur following unilateral left or bilateral lesions in and around auditory cortex (STG). The unilateral theory says that the relevant speech perception network is left dominant. Unilateral lesions cause word deafness by simultaneously disconnecting acoustic input from ascending auditory pathway AND by disconnecting callosal fibers from the intact right hemisphere. Bilateral lesions do the same but clip the right hemisphere inputs at their source. The bilateral theorysays that the ...
Source: Talking Brains - August 8, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
All Employees at New Starbucks Can Sign
This October, Starbucks plans to open its first store staffed completely by people who know American Sign Language (ASL). The store will focus on hiring people with hearing loss, according to an article in The Washington Post, but will also accept applications from people who can hear as long as they can fluently sign. In addition to hiring employees who are able to sign, the store will also use a visual display to confirm orders and indicate when they are ready.
Starbucks already operates a location in Malaysia where employees know Malaysian Sign Language.
The store will be located within walking distance of Gallaudet Uni...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 3, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology News Slider hearing loss Source Type: blogs
BONEBRIDGE, The First Wireless Bone Conducting Hearing Aid
MED-EL, based in Durham, North Carolina, won de novo FDA clearance for the first bone conducting hearing aid system that doesn’t require a connection between the implant and external component to penetrate the skin. The totally wireless connection of the BONEBRIDGE system means that there’s less maintenance required on the patient and a much lower chance of infections occuring.
The implant and the audio processor snap together thanks to magnets and sound captured by the processor is wirelessly transmitted to the implant, which vibrates to produce hearing in people with conductive hearing loss, as well as mixed...
Source: Medgadget - July 26, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: ENT Rehab Source Type: blogs
