Patient Holiday Party
We are excited to host our first ever patient holiday party this Tuesday at 6pm in our Kirkland office. The night will be a celebration of the past year, and a look toward the coming year at ESHC! If you haven’t already RSVP’ed for the event, contact us and let us know you’ll be attending.
Special Education Apps on iTunes
Have you seen the new “Special Education: Learning for Everyone” section on iTunes? We are excited by all the wonderful tools that are currently available for parents and professionals to use in the office, at school or at home! The section has apps divided into different sections such as communication, hearing, language development, organization, literacy…
Fall Newsletter
Take a peek at all that we’ve been up to at ESHC over the past quarter, along with some of the new programs and exciting events we have planned for the future. From the new Accent Modification program to Trick-or-Treating in our office, read about it in our Fall Newsletter!
We’re now on twitter!
We’re offering you another way to get information, new research, community events and clinic happenings! Follow us on twitter for up to date information on our clinic. We’ll also hold fun contests and deals throughout the year available only to our twitter followers!
We love babbling…
Babbling babies that is! Did you know that the cute cooing of a young child is a predictor of both cognitive and social emotional development? In yesterday’s NY Times Health Section they tackled the babble, and helped further explain just how important “ba ba ba” really is to a child’s development. When a baby isn’t…
Accent’s Causing Doubt?
New research by University of Chicago psychologists Shiri Lev-Ari and Boaz Keysar shows that non-native accents make speech more difficult for native speakers to break down, thereby reduces “cognitive fluency” (the ease with which the brain processes stimuli). The study found that this slowed down processing causes native speakers to doubt the accuracy of what is being said…
World Mental Health Day
This year’s World Mental Health Day (October 10th) focuses on the close association of depression with chronic physical illnesses or disorders – including education on the link between hearing loss and depression. Depression can be a disabling illness that seriously impacts overall health. Untreated hearing loss can lead to isolation, depression and other emotional conditions affecting mental…
National Protect Your Hearing Month
Today marks the first day of National Protect Your Hearing Month. The month is dedicated to creating awareness on the dangers of noise induced hearing loss and helping people understand the different options that are available for hearing protection. We encourage everyone to think about your hearing health this month and preserve it by wearing…
Dish Up Literacy 2010
Are you wondering what you’re going to have for dinner tonight? Instead of heading home to cook, head out to “Dish Up Literacy” and dine out for a good cause! Restaurants throughout Seattle and the Eastside are opening their doors to support literacy. By eating at any of the participating restaurants, at least 20% of…
“Chunking”
A New York Times Magazine Article came out earlier this week discussing the study of language acquisition and instruction theories. Research has been implemented on “chunking” – children learning or memorizing language in larger lexical chunks, over a word-by-word basis. NY Times describes “chunking” as, “fixed idioms or conventional speech routines,” they go on to explain…