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Teachers 3.5 times more likely to develop a speech and language disorder...

Nov 26, 2013 by

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have been a very surprising discovery: People with speech and language disorders are 3.5 times more likely to be teachers than patients with Alzheimer’s dementia....

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How we keep a beat determines how effectively we respond to speech...

Oct 22, 2013 by

Research out of Northwestern University indicates that musical training could improve the brain’s response to language. In a recent study, they found that when participants showed a higher accuracy of tapping to a beat, their brains responded more consistently...

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Some dyslexia caused by thalamus not processing speech sounds correctly...

Aug 11, 2012 by

There’s new evidence out of Germany that indicates that some dyslexia is caused by the medial geniculate body (part of the thalamus) not processing speech sounds correctly....

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