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Preschool kids do better when they talk to themselves, research shows
Parents should not worry when their pre-schoolers talk to themselves; in fact, they should encourage it, says Adam Winsler, an associate professor of psychology at George Mason University.   view more (2008-03-31)

Audio-visual tools for Speech & Language Therapists
Latest developments from the Department of Electronics at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) are proving to be invaluable audio-visual tools for Speech & Language Therapists around the world. Senior Lecturer Steve Kelly has been working on an already existing technology called SNORS+... view more (2002-04-25)

Compulsion misses the point: the pension needs of women
The current debate about increasing the level of compulsory pension contributions is a contentious one for individuals, trade unions, employers and the state. While trade unions urge increased compulsion, and both employers and government resist this, the needs of a large section of society are... view more (2004-09-30)

Screening children for speech problems is ineffective
Both parental concerns and screening for speech and language problems fail to identify many preschool children needing therapy, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers set out to compare the performance of two methods for identifying speech and language problems in preschool children in a... view more (2002-11-13)

Mechanism Behind Stuttering Revealed (p 380)
Stuttering is caused by a structural abnormality in the left hemisphere of the brain, according to an article in this week's LANCET. Dr Martin Sommer and colleagues from the Universities of Hamburg and Göttingen in Germany report that persistent developmental stuttering results from a... view more (2002-07-31)

PFI hospitals are not value for money
The government claims that using the private finance initiative (PFI) to build NHS hospitals offers value for money. Yet researchers in this week's BMJ show that the costs of private finance are higher and that NHS trusts pay much more than they would if the new buildings had been publicly funded.... view more (2002-05-14)

Creating linguistic resources for automated translation
A major difficulty in developing automated language translation is that you need a system with a fairly extensive vocabulary from which it can learn, before any degree of reliability or accuracy is possible. The LC-STAR project developed just such a vocabulary.   view more (2005-02-10)

Baby talk is universal
A major function of speech is the communication of intentions. In everyday conversation between adults, intentions are conveyed through multiple channels, including the syntax and semantics of the language, but also through nonverbal vocal cues such as pitch, loudness, and rate of speech.   view more (2007-08-22)

Speech perception from cochlear implantation in young deaf children (p 466)
Young children with congenital and prelingual deafness can develop substantial speech-perception abilities up to 5 years after cochlear implantation, concludes a study published in this week’s issue of THE LANCET. Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in profoundly deaf... view more (2000-08-02)

PATIENT DATABASE SYSTEM WILL HELP STUDENTS ACQUIRE CLINICAL SKILLS
Due for launch in the autumn of 1999, PATSy has been developed by Dr Carmel Lum of Queen Margaret's department of Speech and Language and Dr Richard Cox of the University of Edinburgh's Division of Informatics. The interactive, multimedia system allows students to study medical case histories and... view more (1999-06-22)

Sensory feedback during speech: The brain attunes to more than just sound
Using robotics to manipulate the brain's perception of jaw movement while words are spoken, researchers have deepened our understanding of the importance of non-auditory sensory cues in the brain's control of speech.   view more (2006-10-10)

Making sense of the world through a cochlear implant
Scientists at University College London and Imperial College London have shown how the brain makes sense of speech in a noisy environment, such as a pub or in a crowd. The research suggests that various regions of the brain work together to make sense of what it hears, but that when the speech is... view more (2007-03-13)

Cochlear implants' performance not affected by amount of hearing loss in the implanted ear
Hearing-impaired individuals with severe to profound hearing loss and poor speech understanding who possess some residual hearing in one ear may experience significant communication benefit from a cochlear implant even if it is placed in the worse-hearing ear.   view more (2005-09-02)

World Wide Web Consortium Publishes Speech Recognition Grammar Specification
Open Invitation to Test Critical Component of W3C Speech Interface Framework http://www.w3.org/ -- 26 June 2002 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Speech grammars allow voice-based application authors to... view more (2002-06-26)

Media invitation: Talking with machines
'But I've just told you my postcode, damn you!'   view more (2004-08-26)

The roots of grammar: New study shows children innately prepared to learn language
To learn a language, a child must learn a set of all-purpose rules, such as "a sentence can be formed by combining a subject, a verb and an object" that can be used in an infinite number of ways.   view more (2007-06-06)

Patients should be allowed to pay for statins
GPs should be able to offer private prescriptions for cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) to patients below 3% risk of heart disease, argue researchers in this week's BMJ. Statins can help prevent coronary heart disease in people whose annual risk is 0.6% or more. Yet this would lead to treatment... view more (2004-02-11)

NHS set for "airline style" transformation
UK health care may soon be transformed by the introduction of new providers, just as low-cost airlines Ryanair and Easyjet have radically changed European air travel in recent years, suggests an article in this week's BMJ.   view more (2004-02-05)

Language impairment noticed later in bilingual children
Although more and more children in Sweden speak languages other than Swedish at home, there has never been any research into language impairment in bilingual children. Eva-Kristina Salameh's dissertation at Lund University is therefore a pioneering work. Among other things, she shows that language... view more (2003-03-03)

Cancer patients in India cheated of appropriate care
A letter in this week's BMJ charges the medical community in India with a "commercialisation of suffering and prolongation of lucrative illness." Dr Chatuverdi, Assistant Surgeon at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai states that, in a country with 3 million cancer sufferers - of whom 80 per... view more (2003-05-21)

Public school kindergarteners post same or greater gains as private school counterparts
n the first study to examine differences in learning gains at the kindergarten level, William Carbonaro (University of Notre Dame) finds that publicly schooled kindergarteners post the same or greater learning gains than privately schooled kindergarteners.   view more (2006-11-29)

The Changing Face of Space Robotics
Dr Eddie Moxey of the University of Surrey recently gave a speech at the IEE seminar on the Changing Face of Robotics. His speech concentrated on the use of robotics in space.   view more (2004-11-24)

Woman aquires new accent after stroke
A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking with a different accent, McMaster University researchers report in the July issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.   view more (2008-07-07)

Why do people gesture when they talk?
Most of us gesture when we talk - even on the telephone or to blind people. So are these gestures helping us to formulate our thoughts? Apparently not - according to new research published today, Wednesday 10 February 1999, in the British Journal of Psychology. They are just non-separable partners... view more (1999-02-01)

Synthetic faces assist hearing-impaired
With the help of computer-animated faces, people with hearing impairments will soon be able to read lips over the phone. More powerful computers and better methods of animation make expressions and movements in synthetic faces so natural that they can be used for lip-reading. The quality is only... view more (2003-06-16)
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