Understanding How We Speak
A new study revealed the patterns of brain activity that produce human speech. The findings may one day lead to new approaches for treating speech disorders. Most of us barely give a conscious thought to the process of speaking, but it’s one of the most complex actions we perform. In order to speak, your brain…
New Voices for the Voiceless
Can you imagine not being able to speak, to say hello, to tell someone you love them, to ask for your basic needs? For many children and adults this is their reality, and according to a recent article on NPR they are being given a voice for the first time in their lives thanks to…
Boosting Your Child’s IQ
Earlier in the week we talked about a study that looked at the top ways to boost your child’s IQ. We’re featuring these techniques this week as ways in which you can give your child a leg up on learning. Studies show that interactive book reading (turning book reading into a conversation) can boost young…
The Perks of Preschool
Looking for more ways of enhancing your child’s IQ? All this week we’ve featured information on ways for parents to help enhance their child’s IQ from information found in a meta-analysis study conducted at New York University. What’s the next tip the study recommends, having your child attend preschool! Preschool offers novel stimuli, and opportunities to practise problem solving…
Music Enhancing Your Child’s Brain?
A new meta-analysis of gold-standard, randomized controlled trials has found there are reliable ways to boost a child’s IQ by age 5. John Protzko, a doctoral candidate in psychology at New York University, authored the study published in Perspectives of Psychological Science. Over the next few weeks we’ll feature his findings as ways for you…
How We Engage With Our Children Matters
Researchers long have evaluated the roles parents play in children’s development. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that mothers’ directiveness, the extent to which they try to control the content and pace of young children’s play, varies based on the children’s ages and the mothers’ ethnicities in the study, “Patterns of Maternal…
New look for everhear.com
We are so excited to announce the launch of our new website and blog! Thanks to the wonderful duo at Camp Doug for the beautiful re-design that features online scheduling inquiries, website content search, and new blog functionality that allows you to share your comments! We are thrilled to share our new site with you,…
Happy New Year!
All of us here at ESHC wish you a very happy start to the New Year! We have accomplished a lot in 2012, in great part to our wonderful staff, therapists, doctors and patients. We look forward to working with you all in 2013. Our office will be closed New Years day to allow our…
Autism Friendly Theater
Another Christmas has come and gone, but there was one story this holiday season that gave us that holiday feel good feeling! The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego created a special rendition of “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,” geared toward people with autism and their families. The performance, one of the first…
Inspiring Story on Hearing Loss
Four months ago Austin Chapman, a 23 year old film producer who was born profoundly deaf, was fit with a set of hearing instruments that allowed him to clearly hear and understand music for the first time in his life. So what does a twenty something decide to do when able to truly hear music…