I’m Karen Helfer from the University of Massachusetts and today I’m going to be talking about aging and how aging affects speech understanding. The two talks we had this morning did a great job of setting the table and talking
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation handout and references. Thank you so much. It’s great to be here. It’s great to be here especially because
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. I’ll be talking today about connected speech and syntactic impairment in primary progressive aphasia. This is my disclosure, I’m
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. So, I need to preface this talk by saying as Margaret mentioned before, clinically, I’m trained as an otologist,
I think one continuing question, and one that we’ve had for a long time is, “Why do older people have difficulty understanding speech?” What exactly changes with age? Is it hearing loss? Is it attenuation from peripheral hearing loss? Is
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
