Fifteen Years Is Enough
The blog's author (Edmund Blair Bolles): Taken shortly before the pandemic when the whole world began to look a little queasy.Sometimes random forces seem to gang up on you. Shortly, I must renew my site name, BabelsDawn.com and Google tells me that shortly after that they will cease offering the free subscriber service whereby over 100 fans receive the blog in their email. Neither one by itself is a big deal and I'm sure I could solve both problems with a tiny amount of effort. But I have been supporting this blog for 15 years and I'm about done.When I started this blog I said I hoped it would become the site for news abo...
Source: Babel's Dawn - April 21, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
PhD Student Positions in Speech Neuroscience - Univ. of South Carolina
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders PhD Student Positions in Speech Neuroscience The Speech Neuroscience Lab at the University of South Carolina is inviting highly-motivated students with interest in research on neuroscience of speech to apply for our PhD program. The PhD degree prepares professionals for academic careers with emphasis on research and the scholarly study of the science of human speech production system and its disorders. Doctoral students will complete their research training under direct mentorship, regularly participate in laboratory activities and pu...
Source: Talking Brains - February 18, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Why Are We Hairless Bipeds?
Lake Manyara National ParkMy recent posts have discussed Donald M. Morrison ’s new bookThe Coevolution of Language, Teaching, and Civil Discourse among Humans. I am continuing with that theme now even though today ’stopic is pretty speculative and not-directly related to language or cultural origins, but every now and then this kind of investigation encourages other thoughts about human origins, especially the reason we walk on two legs.Bipedalism is so distinctive for the wholeHomo line and yet there is no clear reason to justify it. I mean, it is convenient to free hands for carrying tools and such, but that came ...
Source: Babel's Dawn - August 27, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
The Language Race
My last post reviewed Donald M. Morrison ’s bookThe Coevolution of Language, Teaching, and Civil Discourse among Humans. This entry is a brief meditation inspired by my reading.The fossil skulls of our Homo ancestors show an amazingly rapid growth of theHomobrain.Homo habilis(2.8 million years ago) had a brain only slightly larger than that of a chimpanzee. By 200 thousand years ago, the brain had tripled in size. 2.6 million years is long by most standards but is very fast for an organ to triple in size, and is especially impressive when you realize that sustaining neurons requires much greater support in calories than ...
Source: Babel's Dawn - August 23, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Teaching As a Human Trait
What did people have to talk about when language was new? They had been getting along fine without words, and suddenly they had a few, but what was there to say?Donald M. Morrison has written a book (The Coevolution of Language, Teaching, and Civil Discourse among Humans) that proposes language got up and running as a teaching system. Speculation about teaching is common, but usually limited to teaching how to make stone tools. Opinions are mixed as to whether language was necessary to teach how to make the early tools, especially Oldowan tools. Showing without talking might well have been enough to teach how to make th...
Source: Babel's Dawn - August 17, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Avoiding COVID-19 when following the guidelines seems impossible
By now, we all know the drill: Maintain physical distance. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Avoid people who are sick and stay away from others if you are sick. While these measures may seem simple enough, they are not easy to keep up month after month. Yet they are likely to be with us for a while.
But what about those who cannot comply? Certain conditions can make the standard measures to stay safe during the pandemic seem impossible. At the same time, some of those likely to have the most trouble following the guidelines — such as older people with dementia — are at higher risk for illness and death if they do become i...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Alzheimer's Disease Anxiety and Depression Asthma Caregiving Coronavirus and COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Mental health for digital natives in the covid era: Shouldn ’t remote counselling be the first line of engagement & treatment?
The benefits of remote consultation for mental health treatment (Health Europa):
Thorbjorg Vigfusdóttir, a cognitive psychologist by training, spent 12 years as a politician in her native Iceland with the goal of directing her knowledge on the development of the brain into education and public policy. After leaving politics to form a company providing remote speech therapy in Icelandic schools, she was founded Kara Connect, an online consultation platform enabling therapists and clinicians to provide remote care and treatment, which was recently adopted by the National University Hospital of Iceland (Landspítali).
What ...
Source: SharpBrains - July 28, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology anxiety cognitive psychologist depression digital natives Kara Connect mental health pandemic remote consultation therapists Thorbjorg Vigfusdóttir Source Type: blogs
Bilingual Logic
Monolinguists (people who speak only one language) often give different answers to the same question, depending on how the problem (say, responding to a pestilence) is framed. Frame a choice one way,--e.g., as lives saved--you get one answer. Frame it differently —as lives lost--you get a different response. That’s not terribly surprising, but now look at bilinguists (people who speak two languages). Pose the choices in their dominant language and the frame matters, but if they hear the question in their second language, the framing bias goes out the w indow. Now they answer the question the same way, not matter ho...
Source: Babel's Dawn - April 30, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Launching This Week: Your New Leader Live Website
For the past year, ASHA has been building a single-source website for all Leader content. Now prepare for the unveiling: This new, dynamic, frequently updated site launches Wednesday.
You can find everything Leader contributors and staff produce—magazine articles, online-only columns, podcasts, blog posts, news—in one place. The site will display the “Leader Live” name and tagline—”happening now in the world of CSD”—to highlight our ability to publish quickly and responsively.
Discover the many changes in design and functionality you’ll enjoy:
A redesigned home page features mor...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 13, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Advocacy Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
ASHA Learning Pass Offered Free of Cost During COVID-19
Let’s face it—daily life feels more hectic than ever, as audiologists and speech-language pathologists juggle unprecedented COVID-19-related changes and challenges, professionally and personally. While it’s hard to find a spare second, tapping continuing education (CE) online is one way to pivot to new practice approaches, such as telepractice, while also meeting CE requirements (as in-person conferences and professional-development events are cancelled).
To help out, ASHA has made its ASHA Learning Pass free for all members through June 30, 2020. Existing ASHA Learning Pass subscribers have had their subscriptions e...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Leslie Katz Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Practice Management Professional Development Source Type: blogs
ASHA Voices: SLPs in Quarantine and a Look at PDPM 6 Months Later
This week on the podcast: What happens when health care workers are exposed to COVID-19? We hear from two SLPs who share their experiences with potential exposure and self-quarantine. We also check in on the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) six months after it went into effect in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
Read the transcript for this episode.
If you work in health care, there’s a possibility you will encounter a patient who has COVID-19. And if you are exposed without personal protective equipment (PPE) … What happens next?
In the first half of this episode, ASHA Voices speaks with two SLPs about their p...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 9, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Health Care Podcast Slider Speech-Language Pathology covid COVID-19 medicare PDPM Source Type: blogs
Home Practice Guidance for Parents During COVID-19
With schools closed and treatment moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic, parent involvement is more important than ever to support children with their speech-language homework. Some parents and caregivers may be well prepared to take this on, but others may have trepidations: Some may see it as too time-consuming, while others might be concerned that they won’t do it correctly. Making speech carryover practice easy to implement can increase the likelihood of parent/caregiver participation.
Here are some strategies I share with parents to help them effectively incorporate speech and language practice into their everyd...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 8, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kim Delude Tags: Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Keeping Adult Clients Motivated at Home During Physical Distancing
We’re in the midst of unprecedented physical distancing to stay safe and reduce exposure to COVID-19. With remote working, school closures, and virtual learning, everyone is forced to abandon previous daily routines and create new ones at home.
This disruption is affecting our speech-language clients and their families across the health care continuum. For those of us working in hospital outpatient settings in hospitals, the challenge is providing clients at home with enough consistent and intensive practice during a critical time in their recovery.
When adult clients are at home, they can be easily distracted and caught...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 7, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emily Dubas De Oliveira Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology COVID-19 Telepractice Source Type: blogs
In Appreciation: Sandra C. Holley-Carter
The Leader is grateful to the Holley-Carter family for providing this tribute.
Dr. Sandra C. Holley-Carter, 1988 ASHA president, died in her home in Mesa, Arizona, on March 9, 2020.
Holley-Carter was born Sandra May Cavanaugh, March 30, 1943, in Washington, D. C., the daughter of Clyde Howard and Rebecca Naomi (Arthur) Cavanaugh. She was that rare blend of kindness, brilliance, and grace that is only found in natural and inspiring leaders. She commanded perfection and brought elegance and class to everything she did. Holley-Carter was a remarkable and relentless trailblazer, history maker, and visionary.
As a child growing...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 6, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: ASHA Staff Tags: News Slider Speech-Language Pathology audiology Source Type: blogs
