Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
An ongoing study of 45 deaf children who had two cochlear implants finds that their language skills are within the normal range.
Infant Learning Lab researchers have recently focused on learning more about people with delayed language comprehension by observing learning methods used by children developing normally and children experiencing language delays.
Nature has outfitted us with a pair of ears for good reason: having two ears enhances hearing.
Micha Wiggins and her mother Doty not only travelled a long way-from Dallas, Texas-to visit Ruth Litovsky’s lab on March 10 and 11, they also had made a long personal journey to arrive at this point. Micha was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at 10 months, recei ved her first cochlear implant at age four, underwent …
Ruth Litovsky has developed a hearing test that simulates the noisy real world, and the results could improve our understanding not only of hearing but also of developmental and learning disabilities among children.
