Publications by authors named "T Nicol"
Objective: Children with HIV (CWH) are at increased risk for cognitive and developmental delays, although HIV's influence on reading development remains unclear. Research using internationally validated reading measures with control for factors known to influence literacy outcomes is needed. The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) is a tool for assessing students' progress toward reading that has been validated across countries.
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- Sports-related concussions require a comprehensive assessment approach, but current evaluations often overlook auditory processing, which may be affected due to the complexity and fragility of the auditory system.
- The study measured frequency-following responses (FFRs) in male Division I football players before and after they experienced a concussion, anticipating a decrease in auditory processing capabilities post-injury.
- Results indicated that concussion led to reduced pitch and phonetic encoding, with repeated injuries resulting in cumulative declines, suggesting that auditory processing should be integrated into concussion assessments and warranting further research in diverse sports and for different demographics.
Aim: Difficulty understanding speech following concussion is likely caused by auditory processing impairments. We hypothesized that concussion disrupts pitch and phonetic processing of a sound, cues in understanding a talker.
Patients & Methods/results: We obtained frequency following responses to a syllable from 120 concussed and 120 control.
We identified a high prevalence (46.4%) of wound colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients hospitalized in a center devoted to the treatment of cutaneous tropical diseases in Benin. The proportion of MRSA among S aureus isolates was 54.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction/purpose: We tested the hypothesis that an objective measure of auditory processing reveals a history of head trauma that does not meet the clinical definition of concussion.
Methods: Division I collegiate student-athletes ( = 709) across 19 sports were divided into groups, based on their sport, using prevailing classifications of "contact" (317 males, 212 females) and "noncontact" (58 males, 122 females). Participants were evaluated using the frequency-following response (FFR) to speech.