Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Helping caregivers assist people with dementia in eating at home
For many people with dementia and the caregivers helping them live at home, mealtime is no picnic.
Feb 15, 2024
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News tagged with speech-language pathologists
Autism spectrum disorders
Identifying the barriers to communication in children with autism
Approximately 30% of individuals with autism do not develop speech that is sufficient for meeting the communication demands of everyday life. People with autism and little to no functional speech rely on augmentative and ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Biomedical technology
Social robots have potential to supplement stuttering treatment
Social robots that interact with humans could be a promising new addition to current treatment tools for people who stutter, according to a recent study looking at how the high-tech helpers might be used in clinics.
Oct 21, 2022
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Parkinson's patients use telehealth access for immediate speech improvement during COVID-19 pandemic
SpeechVive Inc. announced Thursday (Nov. 19) it is making its remote calibration software and training available free during the COVID-19 global health crisis. The software and training are available to all speech-language ...
Nov 20, 2020
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Health
How can algorithms help doctors have better conversations with dying patients?
One afternoon in the summer of 2018, Bob Gramling dropped by the small suite that serves as his lab in the basement of the University of Vermont's medical school. There, in a gray lounge chair, an undergrad research assistant ...
Aug 27, 2019
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Neuroscience
Boosting social functioning treatments for people with autism
A new study indicates the prevalence rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have now grown to 1 in 40, a jump from the rate of 1 in 65 published just two years ago. Indeed, ASD is now the fastest growing neurodevelopmental ...
Jan 16, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Hearing different accents at home impacts language processing in infants
Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched peers exposed to little variation in ...
Dec 5, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Helping dementia patients recall grandchildren's names
A novel telemedicine speech therapy program for people with language problems due to dementia significantly improved their ability to recall words they had "lost," reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Oct 24, 2016
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Autism spectrum disorders
Visual displays help children develop communication skills
When designing tools for children with communication disorders, minor details matter significantly.
Oct 4, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Crowdsourcing a valid option for gathering speech ratings
Crowdsourcing – where responses to a task are aggregated across a large number of individuals recruited online – can be an effective tool for rating sounds in speech disorders research, according to a study by NYU's Steinhardt ...
Feb 18, 2015
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