[EVAL MATER: Proposal for a paediatric evaluation of linguistic and psychomotor competences during the 1st medical check-up in nursery school].

Objectives: To prevent learning disorders, the authors propose a standardized approach of linguistic competences and psychomotor development in young children.

Population And Methods: Children were evaluated during the systematic examination that was carried out in nursery school between 3 years and 6 months and 4 years and 6 months of age. 2 investigations were led: investigation of prevalence led in 2660 children and evaluation of performance of the tests in 99 children among them.

Mutations of human TMHS cause recessively inherited non-syndromic hearing loss.

Background: Approximately half the cases of prelingual hearing loss are caused by genetic factors. Identification of genes causing deafness is a crucial first step in understanding the normal function of these genes in the auditory system. Recently, a mutant allele of Tmhs was reported to be associated with deafness and circling behaviour in the hurry-scurry mouse.

Early brain lesions and face-processing development.

Studies of functional plasticity after pre- or perinatal brain damage can tell us whether the neural substrate normally involved in the development of a given ability is specific and, if so, when it becomes functionally specified and unique. Development of face processing was investigated in 5- to 17-year-old children who had a unilateral brain injury in the pre-, peri-, or postnatal period. In Studies 1 and 2, patients with a posterior injury involving the temporal regions exhibited a face-processing deficit that was independent of their age at test time.

Phonological training in children with dyslexia using temporally modified speech: a three-step pilot investigation.

Three separate studies were successively carried out to investigate the usefulness of intensively training children with dyslexia with daily exercizes based on the temporal processing theory of dyslexia, according to which these children would be specifically unable to process brief and rapidly changing auditory stimuli. The speech modification, similar for the three studies, was close to that proposed by Merzenich et al. (1996) and Tallal et al.

Unilateral spontaneous abdominal cryptorchidism: structural and ultrastructural study of sperm morphology.

Sperm morphology of three healthy boars and three boars with spontaneous abdominal cryptorchidism in the right testis has been evaluated by light microscopy. For each boar, two ejaculates have been analysed, corresponding to semen collections at the ages of 6.5 months (first collection) and 8 months (seventh collection).