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f 1 features Battali on/Page li February 10,1! Dogs give unconditional love BETA ALPHA PSI Presents Handicapped find friends 1983 TRENDS SEMINAR Saturday February 12th 9 a.m. Rm. 102 Academic & Agency Bldg. Featuring: PHIL GRAMM speaking on THE ECONOMY Caesuftute U Welcome. Admission is FREE! Refreshments will be served. United Press International CLAUDE — One little girl “walks funny” and her speech is slurred, and a little boy’s head “twitches oddly” when he laughs and it’s hard for him to perform simple tasks. These are two composites of a frequently isolated and often lonely class of individual — the emotionally and mentally hand icapped child. “Loving Paws” is a nonprofit program designed to make man’s best friend the best, and sometimes the only, friend these young people have. More than 10 years ago, Jim Chism, the founder of “Loving Paws,” began searching for a way “to do something special for handicapped kids.” Within the last 12 months, his program has begun to take shape. Chism, minister of Claude Church of Christ, is the father of two sons, the oldest of whom is handicapped. “Because of my son Brian, and my work with dogs, I wanted to find some way to put animals with these kids,” said Chism, who has raised, trained, shown and sold dogs for several years. “Loving Paws” was born from that desire to help. By trial and error, Chism ex perimented with various breeds, trying to find just the right dog for his one-on-one program. After many trials and after discussions with Dr. Dale Bar ber, a researcher with the Car ing Heart Dog Foundation in Las Cruces, N.M., Chism found that the Airedale Terrier was the best breed for handicapped children. Barber and other researchers ONE LAST CHANCE TO LOWER YOUR 1982 INCOME TAXES With an Individual Retirement Account. Your contributions are fully deductible from your 1982 income taxes. . . And your contributions can be made up until the day you file your 1982 Income Tax Return. 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Signed for the Caring Heart foundation have worked wth specialized breedings of the Airedales to “breed out” certain natural aggressive trails. “Snuffy” is a 16-month-old Airedale that has become Brian’s companion and friend and the prototype for “Loving Paws. ” Snuffy will be taken out of the program as more dogs ar rive in the Panhandle. “She is really Brian’s dog,” said Chism, who has seen the be nefits provided to his son by the love of his tan and black, curly- haired buddy. Chism said he has three main goals for the program. “One, we want to provide companionship for retarded and emotionally handicapped children and young adults," he said. “Two, we want to give a learn ing tool to retarded tionally handicapped that are in institutions’! “Also, we would likes with the elderly who art tionalized. “And three, we woulj provide companionship elderly in their homes’ “Those are the areas! go into,” said Chisraadi his group wants toprosi ultimate companionseti mankind." Currently the works ing Paws” isconductedi and his wife, Vivian,pis work of volunteersandi| who help with then needed services. 3 “Eventually, we hope. Paws will have the mo* the dogs. I’ll be verpdj can use all the helpw l ight now,” he said. Implant opens world of soun to totally deaf United Press International NEW YORK — Inner ear surgery and implants of elec trodes to stimulate ear nerves are opening a door on inner ear deafness, the president of the American Otologic Society says. Dr. Jack Van Doren Hough said the implants help patients by improving speech reading ability and providing awareness of environmental sounds. “We no longer consider this procedure experimental,” the Oklahoma City hearing special ist said at a symposium marking the 25th anniversary of the Deafness Research Foundation. “Rather, we feel it is now in the stage of continued research and development, as in any other good surgical procedure.” The implant is designed to boost auditory perceptions among the four-fifths of the hearing-impaired who suffer from a nerve loss or inner-ear defect. “We have found an open door and successfuly entered the mysterious inner ear — and we have stimulated it electronical ly,” Hough said. “The means we use is called cochlear implant. In some ears, which are totally deaf, we have implanted electrodes at the end of the nerve fiber and have sti mulated it directly with minute electrical signals. As was hoped, the brain received these signals and interpreted them as sound. “The hearing is far from per fect, but the results obtained with the cochlear implant are evident and the consequences enormous.” Over the past four years, 12 cochlear implant teams in va rious medical centers nation wide have implanted the elec trodes in more than 200 adult' patients who are totally deaf, he said. Ca ere "Over 1 million hom tie nt use have been docii without knowninjurioi There have been no and no long-term u complications. “The bottom line this: the average pati the implant (the limeili nal unit is turnedon)ii per day. This is peri strongest evidence plant’s usefulness." What the patientsk from proper or normil for speech discriminaii Patients cannot 4 pitch variations welli c an detect difference! male and female voice! recognize certain wl people by their voices Lhi n „ Hough said thereisfj (hjpi, sound perceptionofri|Soviet tensity variation andd»i 10 v sound. ■red t Some details on tl*l|to u tion: I i] — An incision is mail®,[<-[ n elecB 1 t MO the ear and an electiSB v | e | with electrodes, is ®akenl under the skin tothekBfjug abov e and behind the# q — One electrode, i®econ ground, is placed in s pin sch Another insulated f ®fect< with a tiny ball tip,is#iewsp through the mastoid® Q n and through the roumph,. res into the chamber ^ ruorkc inner ear — thecochlfi®ft_| 1 . for snail). Here it liesiijBiois i with the nerve fibers!' j ustec j viously had lost theirs® r j £ receivers. 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