Look at the screen and learn how to talk
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Speech therapy can help children with cleft palates avoid extra operations by using endoscopy to show the child the velopharyngeal sphincter on a television screen when practising pronunciation. It is very helpful to see it as well as listening and repeating: the child can see what is going wrong and is more able to produce the required sounds. Nasopharyngoscopy must be used with traditional techniques. Electropalatography (EPG) displays tongue movements against a plate with silver electrodes on a computer screen, showing the pattern on a dotted matrix for the child to copy. Co-ordinating sight and sound helps the children learn correct tongue placement.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Waiting for a plane out of Coppermine, on the edge of the Arctic, you have to contend with the concept of Inuit time. But there couldn't be a nicer place to hang around
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The pace of life in remote Inuit communities such as Coppermine, situated on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in northern Canada, remains very slow. Supplies are brought in only once a year by barge, and other visits from outsiders are rare. Communities are extremely friendly, with crime being virtually non-existent and strangers being welcomed into people's homes.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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Plane talk: or, how U2 reconquered America
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Rock group U2 has spent three months in the US on its Elevation tour. Members of the group are interviewed, and consideration is given to how the group has evolved since it was founded.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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