Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
From the research lab to the patient’s bedside, research and clinical care focused on cerebral palsy (CP) encompass the essence of the Waisman Center’s mission: scientists and clinicians using an interdisciplinary approach to improve the lives of children and adults with developmental disabilities.
ASHA Press Release Susan Ellis Weismer, a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center Principal Investigator, and Associate Dean in the College of Letters & Science at UW–Madison has been selected to receive ASHA Honors of the Association. This prestigious honor, bestowed by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association places Ellis Weismer among …
A collaborative team of researchers has used next generation sequencing to identify clinically relevant genetic variants associated with a rare pediatric speech disorder. The findings are published in the September 16, 2013 issue of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders http://www.jneurodevdisorders.com/content/5/1/29. Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a rare, severe speech disorder that in some patients …
"When we think in general about children who are deaf and could benefit from the opportunity to gain access to speech and to language be mainstreamed... there's a lot of excitement," Professor Ruth Litovsky says about the surgery Grayson received.
An ongoing study of 45 deaf children who had two cochlear implants finds that their language skills are within the normal range.
Scientists using diffusion tensor imaging have been able to identify individuals with autism 94% of the time
The Waisman Early Childhood Program (WECP) is a laboratory preschool administered by the Waisman Center.
As many parents discover, the minds of young children absorb information like sponges and their brain development seems to occur at incredible speed.
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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.
