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Ruth Litovsky

Ruth Litovsky, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on February 3, 2025

Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have a higher incidence of hearing loss (HL) compared with their peers without developmental disabilities.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Down syndrome, hearing loss, Ruth Litovsky

Hearing loss and cognition both play a role in speech recognition for young adults with Down syndrome

Posted on December 4, 2024

For young adults with Down syndrome, understanding speech is not only related to hearing abilities, but it may also be impacted by cognition.

Posted in 2024, Down Syndrome, Hearing, News, Research, Speech & LanguageTagged Auditory Working Memory, Cognition, Kumari Anshu, Ruth Litovsky

Are you a young adult with Down syndrome looking to make brain waves for science? (Litovsky)

Posted on March 11, 2024

Our Goals: We hope you will be a part of the first study for young adults with Down syndrome to combine: Who can help? Young adults with Down syndrome who are: 18 to 24 years …

Posted in Brain Imaging, Down syndrome, Hearing Impairments, Studies Currently RecruitingTagged down syn, Down syndrome, Hearing, Ruth Litovsky

Ruth Litovsky, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on January 16, 2024

Although cochlear implants (CIs) facilitate spoken language acquisition, many CI listeners experience difficulty learning new words.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Cochlear Implants, Deaf Adults, Ruth Litovsky, Slide of the Week

Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab (Litovsky)

Posted on August 2, 2023

Recruiting typically developing children 7-12 years of age who meet the following criteria: Native English speakers, normal hearing, no history of recurring ear infections, and pressure equalization (PE) tubes. To find out more visit the …

Posted in Infant and Child Development, Speech and Language, Studies Currently RecruitingTagged Infant and Child Development, Ruth Litovsky, Speech and Language, Studies Recruiting

Ruth Litovsky featured on “Conversation with a Colleague”

Posted on February 17, 2023
Posted in 2023, Hearing, News, ResearchTagged Ruth Litovsky

The sound of the Waisman Center’s work to improve cochlear implants

Posted on February 9, 2023

The Waisman Center has been at the forefront of research on cochlear implants and hearing science for more than two decades.

Posted in 2023, 50th Anniversary, Hearing, Hearing Research, News, Research, Speech & Language, WoWTagged Carlos Benítez-Barrera, Cochlear Implants, Ruth Litovsky

Better ears for better lives

Posted on November 2, 2022

Her child, who was born with congenital deafness, had received her first cochlear implant early enough to access spoken language, but with only one implant she had struggled with understanding speech in noisy environments or locating sounds.

Posted in 2022, Hearing, News, Speech & LanguageTagged Bilateral, binaural hearing, Cochlear Implants, Ruth Litovsky

Ruth Litovsky awarded Silver Medal by the Acoustical Society of America

Posted on November 30, 2021

By Charlene N. Rivera-Bonet, Waisman Science Writer Ruth Litovsky, PhD, chair of communication sciences and disorders, professor of surgery in the Division of Otolaryngology, and Waisman Center investigator was recently selected to receive The Acoustical …

Posted in Awards and Honors, Hearing Research, NewsTagged Award, Ruth Litovsky, Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

Illuminating the brain through a new channel

Posted on March 16, 2021

A new study from the Binaural Hearing and Speech (BHS) Lab at the Waisman Center examines functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) – a neuroimaging option that is safe for individuals with metal implants

Posted in 2021, Brain Imaging, Hearing Research, NewsTagged fNIRS, Ruth Litovsky, Xin Zhou
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