Tag: speech
ASHA Recommendations for In-Person Instruction
According to the U.S. Department of Education’s report Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America’s...
Sounds and Words Processed Separately but Simultaneously
After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language. The findings, reported last month in the journal Cell, suggest that auditory and speech...
Bilingual Infants Prefer Baby Talk
Babies pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study led by Krista Byers-Heinlein, a psychology professor at Concordia University in Montreal,...
Advice for Helping Children with Speech and Language Disorders
As the new school year nears, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is offering advice for parents of the more than 1 million U.S. children who receive school-based treatment for speech and language disorders to...
Speech May Be Ten Times Older Than Previously Thought
New research suggests that speech may not be dependent on the “descended larynx” which could mean that our ancestors were talking 20 million years ago
For 50 years, the theory of the “descended larynx” has...
Speech Therapy App Helps Brain Injury Sufferers Recover Language Skills
Lingraphica: The Aphasia Company today announced the release of TalkPath Therapy for iPad and the Web– an award-winning app component of a speech-therapy solution to help adults suffering with aphasia.
The integrated-cloud based initiative has...