Which came first: Words or Syllables?
Back when this blog was starting out Ireported on a paper given by Judy Kegl (nowJudy Shepard-Kegl) at a conference in South Africa. Kegl is an expert on sign language and had observed a new sign language emerge at a school for the deaf in Nicaragua. She listed four innate qualities that lead to language: (1) love of rhythm or prosody, (2) a taste for mirroring (imitation), (3) an appetite for linguistic competence, and (4) the wish to be like one ’s peers. I found this an interesting and plausible list and have wondered why I don’t see more references to it. Rereading that old post has made the silence more comprehens...
Source: Babel's Dawn - May 24, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
5 Clear Cut Signs That It ’s Time For New Friends
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“If you’re the smartest person in your group, then you need a new group” ~ Les Brown
Have you ever spent a weekend with friends only to leave with that deep empty feeling inside?
Where you were once best of buddies, now it seems like you’re strangers.
Are you at the butt end of every joke, prank, and sarcastic comment?
It’s not personal (even it if feels like it), you’ve simply changed and ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: drewdrake3000 Tags: featured happiness psychology relationships self improvement bad friends bad relationships best self improvement blog good relationships making friends need new friends pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
The Love Blanket Project Spreads Love Around UMCH
Love comes in many shapes and sizes, but for Robin Chiddo it’s square, 44×44 and fuzzy.
Today, Robin from the Love Blanket Project dropped off 33 custom t-shirt blankets that will be given out to children staying at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital.
The Love Blanket Project started in 2015 when Robin, who recently retired from her position as director of business development at the UMD Alumni Association at College Park, was looking for a heartfelt gift for her sister. In her research, Robin also wanted to find a company that had a clear, mission-driven purpose—then she came across Deaf Initiative...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 10, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Kids Child Life children's hospital Love Blanket Project Robin Chiddo UMCH Source Type: blogs
A Compelling Case to Turn Down the Volume
Better Hearing and Speech Month provides audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech and hearing scientists an extra reason to promote our professions and issues we care about on a grand scale. This year is no different, and, as the current ASHA president, I enjoy participating in many of the outreach activities.
For this first week of May, ASHA is focusing on the topic of our Noisy Society. This includes publicizing the results of a new ASHA-commissioned survey on attitudes and behaviors toward hearing, hearing protection and noisy environments of U.S. adults ages 18 and older.
One interesting aspect of the ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 3, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Gail Richard Tags: Advocacy Audiology Speech-Language Pathology hearing loss hearing protection noise-induced hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Stop Refusing to Apologize & Embrace Being Sorry
One of the hardest lessons to be learned in life is how to be truly, genuinely sorry for our behavior or words that cause another person pain, upset, or harm. Some companies — as we saw this past week with United Airlines’ difficulty in apologizing to their customers — have an even more difficult time with this than most people.
You may think, “Well, what do I have to apologize for? They were clearly in the wrong.” Such stubbornness and a refusal to apologize will get you into far more trouble than it could possibly be worth. It’s a lesson worth learning sooner rather than later — ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior Family Friends General Habits Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Relationships Self-Help Apologies Apologizing being sorry how to say your sorry refusing to apologize saying you're sorry Source Type: blogs
Health Care: What Should a Populist Do Now?
Conclusion
The most common response to the suggestion that private contracts could be useful in reforming the health-care system for the benefit of ordinary Americans is the observation that people—ordinary Americans in particular—cannot reasonably be expected to read, let alone understand and compare, the multiple contracts they would confront. This point, however, while valid, is beside the real one, which is to give adequately subsidized consumers meaningful choices with respect to the cost and content of their future health care and enough reliable help in making them that they can be reasonably content with their ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
50 Quick Motivational Tips To Get You Fired Up
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Motivational quotes have an amazing ability to change the way we feel about ourselves. Motivation is important because it is what causes us to actively look for resources to guarantee our success. Motivation becomes strong when you have a vision, a clear mental image of what you want to achieve, and also a strong desire to manifest it. In such a situation, motivation awakens inner strength and power, and pushes...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ayushi Singh Tags: featured motivation self improvement be motivated best inspiration best motivation tips best self improvement blog motivational tips pickthebrain success top 50 motivational quotes Source Type: blogs
After the American Health Care Act
BY JOHN IRVINE
We asked THCB’s editors and bloggers for their reactions to Friday’s news. Here are their reactions.
DANIEL STONE, MD
The late UCLA Professor Richard Brown, once commented that the Clinton healthcare initiative failed because the status quo was everyone’s second choice. Some of that logic applies to today’s failure to vote on the AHCA. Additionally, no one ever lost money betting against the rollback of an established entitlement program.
The Republicans opponents of the ACA have not yet faced the fact that the reason coverage is so expensive is because the care is so expensive. You can’t ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized John Irvine Source Type: blogs
Cameras and Eyetrackers to Study How Kids With Cochlear Implants Learn
At the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center scientists are working on figuring out how young deaf kids adjust to their new cochlear implants and how they utilize the technology to study the world around them. While the devices liberate the hearing sense, children with cochlear implants are not as quick to learn new words as children with normal hearing.
The research team has setup a special play room that has a bunch of cameras that capture what’s going on from many angles. Within, a child and parent spend time at a table playing different games within which new objects are introduced. Both the child and par...
Source: Medgadget - March 24, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Rehab Source Type: blogs
A Victory for Disability Rights and the Constitution
For months, we ’ve been following the saga of a misguided agency regulation that would have deprived some of the most vulnerable Americans of their basic due process rights. In May of last year, the Obama administration proposed arule designating everyone who uses a “representative payee” (usually a friend or relative) to aid in filing social security disability forms as “mentally defective.” The practical consequence of such a change is that those deemed “mentally defective” (itself a vague and insulting term from a bygone legal era) will automatic ally fail their federal background check if they attempt to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 13, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Josh Blackman Source Type: blogs
Researchers develop 3-D tissue culture versions to mmic human gut infections
Vaccines and antimicrobials did more to transform medicine plus extend the average human lifespan than any other scientific breakthrough. Yet infectious diseases remain the world’s number 1 leading cause of death of kids and young adults.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - March 10, 2017 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Intestinal bacteria alter gut and human brain function
Research from McMaster University has found that bacterias in the gut impacts both digestive tract and behavioural symptoms in sufferers suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a finding which could lead to brand new microbiota-directed treatments.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - March 1, 2017 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Working on a Drug to Stimulate Regeneration of Lost Hair Cells in the Inner Ear
One class of the numerous forms of age-related deafness is caused by loss of hair cells in the inner ear. These cells are a necessary part of the chain of systems that leads from sound outside the body to signals passing along nerves into the brain for interpretation. As these hair cells are lost, so is hearing capacity. A range of efforts to reverse this loss are underway at various stages of development, such as reprogramming a cell sample into patient-matched hair cells, or, as in this case, finding ways to provoke regeneration in situ, changing cellular behavior so that they rebuild where they would normally not do so....
Source: Fight Aging! - February 23, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Population Health Isn ’ t Working Out Quite the Way They Said It Would. What ’ s Going On?
By HILARY HATCH
I hate shots. Every year when flu season rolls around, I think, “what’s in it for me?” The answer is, “it isn’t for me. It’s for the herd.” I am young and healthy enough that I am unlikely to die of the flu but I have children, older people and vulnerable patients I care about it, so I get a flu shot every year.
This is true population health. I get a flu shot for the benefit of others. Population health has been extended to a much larger set of activities that have no communal benefit. One patient with diabetes doesn’t benefit from another getting a foot exam. (Mammograms, colonoscopies, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
