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UI professor awarded funding to investigate how hearing loss affects children’s sensory processing

A University of Iowa faculty member will use funding from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how children with ...

What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses

Spurred by her past struggles with dissociative identity disorder, she has devoted her professional life to studying it.

16 years of brain scans reveal the cerebellum's crucial role in human language

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...
IEEE

Making Small Language Model Excellent Symptom Inference Expert for Mental Disorders Detection

Abstract: The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has greatly advanced Mental Disorders Detection (MDD) due to their strong language processing capabilities. However, LLMs are costly in computation ...
Psychology TodayOpinion

The Language Trap: How AI Writing Tools Are Standardizing Our Thoughts

As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common, we must beware of an algorithmic colonization of language and ...
Science Daily

The key to spotting dyslexia early could be AI-powered handwriting analysis

A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young children. A new University at Buffalo-led ...
U.S. News & World Report

Study Finds Human Language Processing Mirrors How AI Understands Words

Study Finds Human Language Processing Mirrors How AI Understands Words THURSDAY, Jan. 22, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The human brain may understand spoken language in a way that is surprisingly similar ...
Psychology Today

It’s Not Autism, It’s Sensory Processing Disorder

A child holds their hands up in front of their face, revealing palms covered in a rainbow of paint. Source: Sharon McCutcheon/Pexels Many people on the autism spectrum have atypical responses to ...
Phys.org

Developmental language disorder can have life-long effects—and it's easily missed in multilingual children

Six-year-old Antoni, born in the UK to Polish parents, speaks only a few English words in class and often looks confused when the teacher gives instructions. He could simply be adjusting to English—or ...
Purdue University

Purdue HHS researchers uncover connections between word learning and retrieval practice to improve outcomes for children with developmental language disorder

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...
Frontiers

Sensory processing atypicalities and social responsiveness in autism spectrum disorder: the mediation of executive function

Child Developmental-Behavioral Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Background: Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly display challenges ...
IEEE

Artificial Intelligence for Speech Classification and Enhancement of Speech and Language Disorders: Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced the classification and management of speech and language disorders, by learning diagnostic patterns from acoustic, prosodic, and linguistic signals.