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Comment on Yathiraj & Vanaja (2018), “Criteria to Classify Children as Having Auditory Processing Disorders”
Two scoring procedures to evaluate memory and sequencing in auditory, visual and auditory-visual combined modalities
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Not AvailableIn the present study, clinical findings, haematological and biochemical alterations, diagnosis and management of positive cases of canine ehrlichiosis was undertaken. A total of 40 dogs affected with canine ehrlichiosis were diagnosed based on nPCR with characteristic clinical features of pyrexia, presence or history of ticks, anorexia, depression and lethargy, congested and pale conjuctival mucous membranes, vomiting, diarrhoea, melena, respiratory distress, weight loss, lymphadenopathy, petechial haemorrhages, epistaxis, ocular discharge, lameness, hind limb edema, blindness, haematuria and heart involvement. Buffy coat smear showed morula in 14 dogs out of 40 confirmed cases. Haematological alteration indicated microcytic hypochromic anemia, thrombocytopenia, hypoalbuminemia and hyperglobulinemia. Animals were treated with Doxycycline @10mg/kg/daily orally for 21 days and showed rapid improvement and recovery.Not Availabl
Influence of smoking on contralateral suppression of distortion product otoacoustic emissions
Comparison of Diagnostic Auditory Processing Test Scores Measured in Clinical and School Settings
Hearing Aid Noise Reduction Algorithms Hearing Aid Noise Reduction Algorithms and the Acquisition of Novel Speech Contrasts by Young Children Algorithmes de réduction du bruit dans les appareils auditifs et acquisition de contrastes nouveaux de la parole
Abstract A previous study by the authors concluded that digital noise reduction (DNR) does not have an infl uence on the acquisition of a second language in adults. On the basis of results from adult subjects, it was inferred that DNR is not likely to infl uence language acquisition in pre-verbal infants. The present study serves as an update to determine whether the tasks being modeled could be conducted with younger participants of 4-and 5-years of age, and whether similar results would be found. Two groups of normal-hearing, monolingual English-speaking children were presented with noise-embedded Hindi speech contrasts that were diffi cult to discriminate. One group listened to both speech items and noise processed with DNR while the other group listened to unprocessed speech in noise. To ensure task appropriateness, these results were also compared to measures from a third group composed of Hindi-speaking children of the same age. Results indicated that Hindi-speaking children performed better than English-speaking children, confi rming age-appropriateness of the cross-language task, but that DNR did not enhance nor impair the acquisition of novel speech contrasts by young listeners. Abrégé Une étude précédente des mêmes auteurs a mené à la conclusion que la réduction du bruit numérique n'a pas d'infl uence sur l'acquisition d'une langue seconde chez les adultes. À partir de résultats obtenus auprès de sujets adultes, on a postulé que la réduction du bruit numérique n'était pas susceptible d'infl uencer l'acquisition d'une langue chez les jeunes enfants à l'étape préverbale. La présente étude se veut un suivi pour déterminer si les tâches démontrées pourraient servir avec de jeunes participants de 4 et 5 ans et si l'on arriverait à des résultats semblables. Dans le bruit, on a présenté à deux groupes d'enfants monolingues anglophones ayant une acuité auditive normale des sons opposés en hindi diffi ciles à distinguer. Un groupe a écouté les deux sons et le bruit transformés avec la réduction du bruit numérique, tandis que l'autre groupe a entendu les sons sans transformation. Pour assurer la pertinence de la tâche, on a aussi comparé les résultats à des mesures d'un troisième groupe d'enfants parlant le hindi et ayant le même âge. Les résultats montrent que les enfants parlant le hindi ont mieux réussi que les enfants anglophones, ce qui confi rme la pertinence de la tâche inter-linguistique pour l'âge, mais la réduction du bruit numérique n'a pas amélioré ni freiné l'acquisition de contrastes de sons nouveaux chez les jeunes
