Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
“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.
This award recognizes distinguished achievement and/or contributions
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.
A child’s first word is a special moment, their eyes widening in curiosity, one chubby finger pointing to an object in sudden recognition as “juice” or “train.”
Robin Chapman, professor emerita of Communicative Disorders and Waisman principle investigator, received the 2006 Career Research Scientist Award on Tuesday, May 22, at its Atlanta, GA. meeting from the Academy on Mental Retardation. The award was made for her outstanding contributions to research in mental retardation and developmental disabilities. On Waisman grants funded by the National Institutes of …
Outreach program manager/augmentative and alternative communication specialist at the Communication Aids and Systems Clinic (CASC) and Communication Development Program (CDP) at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center.
