CENTER FOR PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN

儿童感知与交流中心(CPCC)的目标--男孩的眼镜蛇 位于内布拉斯加州奥马哈的城镇国家研究医院(BTNRH)正在扩大目前的范围 研究计划，为具有以下特点的初级教员的发展提供独特的环境 理解儿童听力损失对言语和语言知觉影响的兴趣 和加工，并最终描述听力损失儿童在现实世界中的表现。我们的 目标是扩大研究计划，建立在其目前对周围功能的重视的基础上 听觉系统将包括关于更复杂问题的最先进的工作，如听力损失的影响 关于真实世界环境中的表现，包括教室，自下而上和自上而下的贡献 儿童将英语作为第二语言学习的加工过程，视觉和听觉的整合 信息在言语和语言习得中，助听器属性的调整促进 前庭缺陷时间加工的发展及其对视觉加工的影响 与听力损失有关。对这些主题的研究将由一个行政核心促进，该核心将 协调与外部咨询委员会和外部导师的互动，这是一个将 为硬件和软件开发、信号处理和房间声学问题提供支持 临床测量核心，将收集临床数据，实施质量保证程序和 协助选择和解释临床措施。CPCC将从联合研究中受益 将担任核心主任和导师的资深教员的经验以及来自这位独特患者的经验 BTNRH的资源和翻译研究环境。未来的计划要求继续扩大 这项研究计划包括对正常儿童的言语/语言和认知功能的研究 听力，利用目前正在开发的神经成像设施。

The goal of the Center for Perception and Communication in Children (CPCC), a COBRE at the Boys Town National Research Hospital (BTNRH) in Omaha, Nebraska, is to expand the range of the current research program by providing a unique environment for the development of junior faculty who have an interest in understanding the consequences of childhood hearing loss for speech and language perception and processing, and ultimately describing performance of children with hearing loss in the real world. Our goal is to broaden the research program, building on its current emphasis on peripheral function in the auditory system to include state-of-the-art work on more complex issues such as the impact of hearing loss on performance in real-world environments including classrooms, the contributions of bottom-up and top-down processing in children learning English as a second language, integration of visual and auditory information in speech and language acquisition, the adjustment of hearing-aid properties to promote development of temporal processing and the consequences for visual processing of vestibular deficits associated with hearing loss. Research on these topics will be facilitated by an Administration Core that will coordinate interaction with an External Advisory Committee and external mentors, a Technical Core that will provide support for hardware and software development, signal processing and room-acoustics issues and a Clinical Measurement Core that will collect clinical data, implement quality assurance procedures and assist with selection and interpretation of clinical measures. The CPCC will benefit from combined research experience of the senior faculty who will serve as core directors and mentors and from the unique patient resources and translational research environment at BTNRH. Future plans call for continued expansion of the research program to include work on speech/ language and cognitive function in children with normal hearing, taking advantage of neural imaging facilities currently under development.