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This presentation describes research regarding factors that exacerbate or help to mitigate the difficulty older adults experience understanding speech in the presence of competing talkers I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects speech understanding. The two...
Highlighting recent epidemiologic research on hearing loss, accelerated cognitive decline, and incident dementia, as well as future trends in addressing hearing loss as a public health problem The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. So, I...
A review of recent advances in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation handout and references. Thank you so much. It’s great to be here. It’s great...
Describing the diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants with particular focus on the speech and language features that differentiate them The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. I’ll be talking today about connected speech...
Diagnosing a speech motor disorder is very challenging right now for the field. We have paradigms that were developed about 30 or 40 years ago, and we haven’t really changed much as a field. That’s because in many of the speech disorders, the symptoms overlap. It’s hard to really get...
I think one continuing question, and one that we’ve had for a long time is, “Why do older people have difficulty understanding speech?” What exactly changes with age? Is it hearing loss? Is it attenuation from peripheral hearing loss? Is it something else going on in the cochlea? Is it...
Questions to ask, strategies for identifying and measuring fidelity of key components, and considerations in setting a research agenda for scaling up and replicating an intervention The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Since 1985 my colleagues and I have been in the business of...
The anatomy of the implementation of a universal newborn screening program in Colorado and across states The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Additional presentation slides can be downloaded by clicking the PDF button in the toolbar. I wish I could start out with efficacy...
I think, as some British colleagues have said before, children with specific language impairment seem to be a group of children who, the person on the street will never have heard of, and yet, the prevalence of specific language impairment — kids who meet these criteria are every bit as...
I think the changing demographics is going to change all landscapes. There are going to be so many people who are living longer, and living with all these different chronic conditions. It’s going to be much more expensive to be able to support the older people as they live longer....
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