Stories indexed under: Communicative disorders
Total: 4
- UW-Madison, Sertoma Club provide hearing aids to qualified recipients May 13, 2008 A program through the Department of Communicative Disorders and the Sertoma Club of Madison turns used hearing aids into credits to purchase new hearing aids for qualified recipients.
- Clinical autism project seeks ‘Toddler Talk’ participants April 10, 2007 The Early Autism and Communication Research Clinic of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center seeks participants for its "Toddler Talk" project.
- Study focuses on closing school achievement gap March 13, 2007 Despite decades of interventions and billions of dollars spent, a large gap in school achievement stubbornly persists between underprivileged children and their more advantaged peers. With funding from the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery seed grant program, UW–Madison scientists will now bring their collective expertise to bear on one important, but overlooked, cause of this troubling problem.
- Study looks at benefits of two cochlear implants in deaf children Feb. 13, 2007 Nature has outfitted us with a pair of ears for good reason: having two ears enhances hearing. University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are now examining whether this is also true for the growing numbers of deaf children who've received not one, but two, cochlear implants to help them hear.