Sunday, January 4, 2009

Implants for babies could help deaf learn to speak


Filed under: Language and the brain

Brain activity that is “scrambled” in deaf cats develops normally if they are fitted with a cochlear implant shortly after birth. The finding may explain how deaf children given implants as babies can learn to speak almost as well as hearing children.

Full article: New Scientist


See also:

>  Ear implant success sparks culture war
>  Study Illuminates How Babies Learn to Speak
>  Babies raised in bilingual homes learn new words differently than infants learning one language
>  Baby Got Math
>  Speaking Without Sound

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