The authors review the neuropsychology, brain bases, and genetics of three related disorders of language development: reading disability, or developmental dyslexia (RD); language impairment (LI); and speech sound disorder (SSD). Over the past three decades, cognitive analysis has demonstrated that the reading difficulties of most children who have RD result from phonologic impairments (difficul...

Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis) is characterized by an increased hearing threshold and poor speech understanding in a noisy environment, slowed central processing of acoustic information, and impaired localization of sound sources. Presbycusis seriously affects the older people's quality of life. Particularly, hearing loss in the elderly contributes to social isolation, depression, and l...

Speech is an integral part of communication. Speech disorder is a problem with fluency, voice, and or how a person produces a speech sound. The main focus of this study is to identify the difference between normal and disordered speech. The proposed work classifies the normal and abnormal speech. The experimental investigation elucidated MFCC and DTW with the accuracy rate of 88 % and 75% respe...

Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder with chronic and remitting course. The disorder is related to high mortality and severely impairs everyday functioning. Therefore a scientifically sound and practical approach to treatment is needed. Making a long-term treatment plan usually also demands some creativity. The patient is interested in a number of issues, from the choice of therapy in acute ph...

background: one of the most widely used equipments in harvesting hay and grains are four wheel mowers. the aim of the present study was to determine the levels of noise exposure in drivers and bystanders in different states, speeds and gear of four wheel mowers (bcs model 622).   methods: the iso 5131 and iso 6814 standards were used to assess noise exposure in drivers and bystanders, respectiv...

Coffin-Lowry syndrome (CLS) is an X-linked semi-dominant condition with learning difficulties and dysmorphism caused by mutations in the gene RSK2. Originally, epilepsy was reported as a feature. We and others have since described predominantly sound-startle induced drop attacks that have been labelled 'cataplexy', abnormal startle response and hyperekplexia. We sought to clarify why there shou...