Show 12— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 30 1986 Computers helping children learn language skills By Delthia Ricks LOS (UPI) — ANGELES Children use complete sentences when into using simple sentences and the lilt of natural speech “The computer says exactly Myers developed a computer they do” she explained adding expressing ideas same speech signal over the on now tested to some that of the afflicted program “The computer talks them being children between 2 and 16 that children would never speak at a speed they can un- and over again while the child teaches them to talk and without professional help derstand” Myers said “They learns the basic sound pattern express ideas that "even their “They can’t store words and see a picture of a toy and learn of the word Then over time they figure out how the word parents didn’t know they have” bring them up from memory to ask for it” The linguist believes that sounds what the word means Myers described the children For others typical speech goes with language difficulties as by too fast so if they can’t because the children are in and can understand it even those with Down’s syndrome perceive the speed they can’t control of the computer they do when it is spoken in different cerebral palsy autism and understand what is being said” not feel "pressured into using accents” she said The object of computer those classified by teachers and Myers explained speech” and therefore have doctors as “developmentally The computer program increased levels of learning learning is to wean children which has pictures that appear She discounts the possibility from the synthesized voice and delayed” “Most of these children have on a screen and a synthesized of the machine distorting what assist them into integrating problems with talking and don’t voice slowly guides the child children learn because it lacks what they have learned into the City of Hope in Duarte UPI science writer brain-impaire- d because of disease and those with delayed language development are getting a first chance at speech with the help of a new computer program "The kids who are being helped by this system are those who don’t begin to talk when normal children do” says research linguist Laura Myers of the Department of Pediatrics at conversations with family and friends Myers emphasized often She said children classified as developmentally delayed are actually victims of undetected ear infections that temporarily prevented them from hearing what is said Children cannot learn to say words they have never heard Even though mentally re- tarded children are not expected to reach speech parity with normal children their age Myers said the computer helps increase their vocabularies TP Ads Continued from page 11 from a New York bookseller and today the Warshaw collection of 18th- - 19th- - and 20th-centu- ry ads is being researched by social historians such as the museum’s Jackson Lears lL V Nv Lears sees in the collection opportunities to examine what he calls those “envelopes of circumstances” that lead us to choose one product — or even a pasttime — over an alternative Looking through old ads - - - 4s ' ' : -' — even those of a decade back — can be disturbing for scholar and casual browser alike “The way we lived only 30 years ago can seem quaint and sometimes strange" McQuade notes “and what we believe to be the immutable laws of social behavior may well now strike us as irrelevant unjust or ' ' ' j ' - v " i r ' B15$80R13l$ cruel” Nowhere is that more true than in the depiction of blacks in early advertising Following the Civil War magazine ads for cure-all- s tooth-acn- es ' 4 drops and tobacco depicted blacks as grotesque characters McQuade explains that regrettably the ads were a mirror of the white 4888 5088 4988 community’s unwitting view of the black minority “The faithful servant the nostalgic view of plantation life — all of the characters and scenes of racial harmony essential to the mythology of Southern rural experience appeared in advertising pages” As blacks moved northward the scene shifted in advertising and blacks — in the white mind and on the printed page — were seen in the kitchen or laundry on trains or at fancy parties giving service to the “boss” or “lady" of the house Though blacks served as pilots and commanders during World War II ads continued to show them H polishing shoes and shining brass “The key" McQuade says “is that advertisers had not yet discovered their new discretionary income” Black athletes and entertainers civil rights activists and then masses of Americans broke through public and advertising stereotypes in the post-wera Blacks demanded that they be depicted in normal everyday situations as families as husbands and wives as successful athletes and even as sex objects In ads today Mcar Quade observes “blacks have all the same problems and aspirations of middle-clas- s whites” But is this the real thing? 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