Research demonstrates speech-in-noise training helps children with auditory processing disorder
Children with APD have difficulty perceiving speech when there is background noise and may have trouble on cognitive tests
There's a neurological reason you say ‘um' when you think of a word
Disfluencies can shed light about what's going on in the brain as we speak
Neurologists are translating brain activity into synthetic, understandable speech
The tech could be used to help patients like Stephen Hawking who have impaired speech