A critical examination of the literature on the use of electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback for problems of handwriting is presented. Examined are the procedures, results and conclusions of clinical treatments of writer's cramp and the habilitation of writing. The major flaws in each study are discussed and conclusions drawn from the review are presented, the primary one being that EMG biofeedba...

The efficacy of a program of sensorimotor facilitation procedures to improve oral motor function and feeding behaviors in students with severe developmental delay was explored. Four severely handicapped students were administered the oral habilitation program using a multiple baseline across-subjects design with staggered introduction of the treatment. Graphic analysis and the split middle meth...

This case was selected to highlight the importance of the test battery approach in the assessment of a child with auditory processing deficits. The utility of behavioral, electrophysiologic, acoustic immittance, and evoked otoacoustic emission procedures, as well as the problems associated with interpreting these multiple measures with differing results, is discussed. This case was confounded b...

To Philippe Curé We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain. Claude Bernard quoted by Daniel Crevier " The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence, " 1993. Acknowledgments I would like to thank my parents my wife and children the members of the jury of this habilitation Jean-Paul Giroud for twelve years of a rich co...

Since its commissioning in 1991, the ep collider HERA has been running successfully for almost a decade without stopping improving its performance. In this report, the inclusive cross section and structure function measurements for the deep inelastic scattering of neutral and charged current processes in the full HERA kinematic domain are reviewed. The results are compared with the Standard Mod...

In 1931, three years after the publication of The Origin of German Tragic Drama, the obscure masterpiece which he had intended as his habilitation thesis, Walter Benjamin wrote about it to the Swiss editor, Max Rychner: ... what I did not know at the time of its composition became more and more clear to me soon after: that, from my very particular position on the philosophy of language, there e...

habilitation of patients who have undergone extensive surgery for eradication of neoplasm of the maxillae requires restoration of the functions of speech, mastication, and deglutition. The options for rehabilitation of these patients are surgical reconstruction or prosthetic restoration. According to Sharry,’ even when surgical techniques are available, prosthetic reconstruction is chosen most ...

PURPOSE To verify the applicability of a software in the (re)habilitation of hearing impaired children. METHODS The sample comprised 17 children with hearing impairment, ten with cochlear implants (CI) and seven with hearing aids (HA). The Software Auxiliar na Reabilitação de Distúrbios Auditivos - SARDA (Auxiliary Software for the Rehabilitation of Hearing Disorders) was used. The training p...