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Specific language impairment in bilingual vs monolingual children

1 May 2015 | | bilingual, executive function, language-minority, poverty, specific language impairment
Research has focused mainly on the specific language impairment (SLI) in monolingual children. This article focuses attention on the SLI in bilingual children. The study was conducted with bilingual children from Luxembourg and monolingual children from Portugal who all had...
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Talk your brain well: discourse training to fortify your cognitive functioning and protect against dementia

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be described as a transitional stage prior to a diagnosis of dementia. Approximately 15% of people with amnestic MCI (where memory is the leading symptom) develop dementia. Nonpharmacological interventions, specifically cognitive training, has shown some...
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Expectations and practice

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Reading this paper is reassuring. It does not appear to be groundbreaking in its results but research can be as useful, if not more so, when it consolidates knowledge and helps unify the research base. This paper focuses on those...

UCL Ear Institute: Advanced Adult Rehabilitation

23 October 2024 -20 November 2024 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
UCL Ear Education CPD courses We specialise in providing training programmes for ENT medics, audiologists and associated health-care professionals. Our courses are ENT UK (RCP), BAA and/or BSHAA accredited. Our CPD courses are delivered by our in-house experts, including world...

Barriers to cochlear implantation in low resource settings

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
The benefits of early detection and rehabilitation of hearing loss in children, especially through cochlear implantation, are unequivocal. However, access to these valuable resources is far from equal and universal. Identifying the barriers is the first major step in addressing...

In conversation with Ricard Simo

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - ENT
Ricard Simo is a Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital. He is also Vice-President of the European Laryngological Society and is the Audit and Governance Lead for the ENT-UK Head and Neck Society. Our editor,...

Misophonia: an audiologist’s perspective on recent research and assessment

3 September 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
From validated assessment tools to new insights into neural processing, recent research is redefining the audiologist’s role in understanding misophonia. Misophonia – literally “hatred of sound” – is a condition marked by disproportionate emotional and physiological reactions to specific trigger...

Paediatric ENT trauma

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Paediatrics
Managing trauma in children often strikes terror in doctors who do not deal with children regularly. Kate Stephenson explains the approach to a child who has suffered ENT trauma and specific things to look for in children. ENT injuries are...

The outer ear in the visual arts

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
The ear is an exceptional organ, and quite rightly takes its place in the visual arts, as described by Albert Mudry, who takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the appearance of the ear and its depictions in art throughout...

Psychogenic vestibular disorders: understanding and management

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
‘Psychogenic vestibular disorders’, also known as ‘functional vertigo and dizziness’, are common causes of dizziness and balance difficulty. Although our understanding of their underlying pathophysiology remains incomplete, Drs Diego Kaski and Amy Edwards outline how early identification and positive diagnosis...

The utilisation of three-dimensional printed models in skull base surgery

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
As technology improves, there are new ways to assist with surgeons when it comes to training and preparing for surgery. Barbara Anne Thomson and Georgios Kontorinis highlight how 3D printing can help with the understanding and surgical planning for complex...