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Thursday, January 17,12-9 p.m. Friday, January 18,12-6 p.m. Saturday, January 19,12-6 p.m. for more information call 823-0356 822-5718 ► Babies' babble clue to disability United Press International BOSTON — Listen closely the next time you hear a baby babble. The child could be offering clues to whether it will have a speech impair ment when it begins to talk. Although research on such things is still in its earliest phases, prelimi nary evidence suggests that abnor mal babbling may offer clues to later speech difficulties. Approximately three to five per cent of all school-aged children have some sort of speedi impairment. If problems could be detected before the child learns to speak, therapists might be able to minimize later diffi culties. “If we wait too long it makes effec tive diagnosis and treatment much more difficult,” said John L. Locke, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s new neurolinguistics labo ratory. “The disability often causes emotional problems or visa versa. After a while it’s difficult to tell what’s causing what.” At present, severe cases of speech impairment are usually detected be fore a child enters school, but most moderate and mild cases are not dis covered until later. At that point the child may already have fallen far be hind in its social and intellectual de velopment. i* “This is a very complex topic,” said Jeni Yamada, a linguist at the lab.“Many times the child won’t talk at all, or it uses one-word utterances where it should be using phrases.” Moderate and mild cases may seem like the child is just a little slow at speech development, which makes distinguishing between slow starters and the truly speech impaired diffi cult. One of the ways Locke is solving the secrets of babbling is by studying children made temporarily mute by a tracheotomy — a small incision in the throat necessary for them to breathe. “During this period they are un able to make any noise with their mouth,” Locke said. “As a result they lie in their crib surrounded by peo ple who talk to them and to each other and they’re incapable of re sponding in kind.” Locke wants to know whether these children babble and talk any differently than normal children when doctors close the hole a year to several years later. He hopes these experiments may illuminate the role of babbling in childhood devel opment, and ultimately help in the early detection of speech impair ments. Emerging evidence at the Univer sity of Miami indicates that deaf chil dren begin babbling much later than normal children. This seems to indi cate one of two things: either the child does not babble because it can not hear other people speak or it does not babble because it cannot hear itself speak. Rebecca Eilers, an associate pro fessor of psychology at the Univer sity of Miami said, “A normal child begins babbling during its first six months. But if deaf children babble at all it’s not until much later.” Deaf babies do cry, laugh, shriek and coo. They just do not babble, which is basically the repitition of vowel and consonent sounds such as “da-da-da-da.” This indicates that babbling is very different from other sounds Babies make. Study: breast cancer not linked to lumps Associated Press BOSTON — About 70 percent of all women who undergo breast biop sies to remove benign lumps face no unusual risk of later developing breast cancer, and the additional danger is slight for nearly all the rest of them, a new study shows. Doctors frequently perform biop sies to remove suspicious lumps from women patients, and often those growths turn out to be nonma- lignant. Until recently many experts believed that those women still faced up to four times the ordinary risk of cancer, and sometimes “preventive” mastectomies were performed. The new research is the latest in a series of reports to show that for most women, having a benign lump WELCOME BACK AGGIES! STUDENT SPECIAL NO DEPOSIT NO RENT until Feb. 1 (student I.D. required) 1 & 2 Bedroom Units starting @ $220 UJilloiiiich apartments Call today! 693-1325 502 S.W. Parkway College Station Enjoy Spring Break ^ in Sunny Puerto Vallarta March 11-15, 1985 OO removed doesn’t necessarily fore shadow breast cancer later in life. “My major concern when I started this 10 years ago was that people were assuming that any woman who had had a breast biopsy was at in creased risk of breast cancer,” Dr. David Page said. 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