Information and news releases furnished by the members of PR Newswire, who are responsible for their fact and content. This is a dramatic development for the ten percent of all children who struggle with language impairments. In a statement preceding the conference, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton emphasized the importance of new brain research that shows us how children acquire the language skills they need to survive and lead productive lives. Research presented by Dr. Patricia Kuhl, a leading researcher from the University of Washington, at the conference shows that six month-old babies have already begun to develop the specialized skills they need to recognize their native language. Research also shows that problems with these basic processes manifest themselves very early in life.
Field tests confirm the program's unprecedented skill-improvement results.
Unlike their non-language impaired peers, these children are not able to distinguish the rapidly changing sound elements and sequences of normal speech. It's similar to what children with vision impairments experience when they first put on a new pair of glasses. This program is like glasses for the ears. As the children master new skills, the exercises become progressively more advanced, enabling them to continually increase their rate of speech processing, which in turn leads to normal speech perception. Scientific Learning Corporation is a privately held firm founded last year by Drs.