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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
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dition known as atypical hyperplasia,
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typical risk of breast cancer.
A report on the latest analysis,
conducted by Page and Df. William
D. Dupont at Vanderbilt University
Medical School, was published in
Thursday’s New England Journal of
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