I think the changing demographics is going to change all landscapes. There are going to be so many people who are living longer, and living with all these different chronic conditions. It’s going to be much more expensive to be
I knew that the measured audiogram — the audiogram that we measure routinely — gave us information. But it didn’t give us enough information about the psychological and social effects of hearing loss, so I decided that we needed to
Developing the College Program for Students with Brain Injury I was always interested in how you think about your thinking. Then I met a student on campus, and started to have coffee with her, and discovered she was really struggling
This presentation was delivered as part of a workshop session on the application of adaptive design principles to clinical trials in speech-language pathology. Ray Kent provides summary thoughts and comments on the seminar, with additional comments from Sharon Yeatts, who
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. My name is Sharon Yeatts, and I’m an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics with the Data Coordination Unit at MUSC. And we are responsible in many cases, as the
I’m interested in how thoughts inside the head become transmitted into speech — in trying to specify what happens when we talk. The way I do that is by making computational models. I try to make computer programs that simulate
You can imagine trying to recruit a sample of this size is also challenging. And at each of the sites, we had strengths — and clinical people who had a network of connections in their state. Those relationships that come
I’ll start with just a little bit of background. It’s interesting that in contrast to a large number of studies that have been done with children who have cochlear implants, there really is a major gap in the evidence on
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I am glad to be here and to speak on this topic, which I think is extremely important. My disclosure slide, which like most disclosure slides is not
Age-Appropriate Measurement The measurement was a huge challenge because we were taking six months to six years of age, and so we need developmentally appropriate measures across all of these ages. And you don’t want to change your measures at
