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University Daily Kansan, February 27, 1984
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KU profs work on new hearing aid
By YASH BHAGWANJI Staff Reporter
With the aid of a device that is being developed by researchers at the University of Kansas, deaf people may be able to understand spoken language.
The device would pick up sound, recode it into a complex set of vibrations and then transmit those vibrations to the skin to the central nervous system.
Lawrence Feth, chairman of the department of speech-language-bearing; science & disorders, recently appointed by the best approach to tactile communication
HARVEY DOEMLAND, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Robert Hollis, senior scientist in child development with Peth to develop the device.
Their research was prompted by experimental results of a study demonstrating that highly trained deaf and blind people could understand speech by placing their fingers on the speaker's mouth and by monitoring actions associated with the speech production process, Feth said.
"This led us to believe that the deaf may learn through the touch system,"
sound vibrations into patterns that the deal could understand.
As a result of the experiment, called
the Tadoma method, the scientists
were able to develop a new type of
cell.
Feth said that the device would not eliminate the need for lip reading but that the deaf would be able to sense sounds within their immediate environment.
For example, he said, the deaf might be unable to sense emergence sirens and music.
The unit's assembly may not begin until March 15, he said. Because it must be small enough to be placed on the chair, the instructors are still searching for the right parts.
When the unit is completed, preliminary tests will be conducted on people who have been exposed.
"This will check the device on people
with no sensory deficit. If they can't learn to recognize the speech sounds, then the deaf can't learn," he said.
THE PRELIMINARY tests, which may begin this summer, would take as long as a year to be completed, Feth said.
Feth said that if favorable results were achieved, the researchers would apply for a federal grant.
Feth said that the researchers are trying to perfect encoding methods for the device and that little was known about where the device might be placed on the body and what comprehension and memory constraints the deaf would face when trying to learn the vibration patterns.
D.A. savs bill would ease victims' trauma
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
A bill now tabled in the Legislature would prevent victims and witnesses from testifying at preliminary hearings in Kansas and would help ease trauma for them, a Johnson County assistant district attorney said recently.
Steve Tatum', the assistant district attorney and a representative of the Kansas County District Attorneys office that he will be studied this fall or summer by an interim committee, would especially help ease trauma for rape victims and
victims of other violent crimes. He said that preliminary hearings were often more traumatic because no jury was present and because the prosecuting attorney often could not object to the defense attorney's questions.
"The defense attorneys can really take their shots at preliminary hearings." Tatum said. "Victims have told me that they felt they were on trial."
THE HOUSE JUDICIARY Committee voted last week to delay action on the bill until after it had been studied later this year by an interim committee. The bill will not go the floor of the Kansas House before the 1983 session.
Judiciary Committee hearing on the bill, said the committee's decision to refer the bill to an interim committee is not yet ready, and the association which he represents.
Tatum, who testified Feb. 7 at a
Tatum said he favored the bill because preliminary hearings often could be as long and as expensive as the testimony, and with witness testimony is included.
Evidence other than this testimony is less time consuming, but still enables the judge to determine whether the defendant should stand trial, he said.
JERRY HARPER, Douglas County district attorney, also said he supported the case.
decrease the trauma of victims and witnesses throughout the judicial process.
The measure would not jeopardize the rights of the defendants, he said.
Jim Rumsey, a Lawrence attorney and a lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association who testified against the bill, said yesterday that the testimony might allow prosecution of cases that otherwise wouldn't go to trial.
The details of a case that are brought out in the preliminary hearing, through the testimony of victims and counselor and the defense attorney during the trial itself.
Hotel moves due date for $1,500 Soviet debt
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Holiday Inn Holdem
Friday gave athletes United for
peace five more days to come up
with the $1,500 it still owes on a
$5,000 bill that a Soviet track team
last April during the Kansas
Kansas
Officials at the Holidome, 200 W Turnippe Access Road, had said they would sue if the debt wasn't paid by Friday. But Bob Swan, AUP president, said yesterday that the Holidome officials had extended the deadline because AUP was able to pay $3,500 of the money it owed.
AUP NOW HAS until Wednesday to pay the rest of the debt and could face legal action if they fail to do so, Swan said.
AUP originally owed the Holdome $9,533 from the 'Switz' visits, but the Holdome agreed earlier this month to accept 52 percent of the AUP's funding.
Swan said that he was confident of obtaining the $1,900 through donations. After AUP came up on short its bills from the Relays, it began a fund-raising drive to make up the difference.
"Americans are willing to pay one-third of their budgets for weapons, so they should be willing to invest more efforts like ours," Swan said.
AUP sponsored the Soviet visit and paid the athletes' expenses after they arrived in Montreal. The Soviets paid their own expenses from Moscow to Montreal. The aircraft departed on April 1st. April Soviet commercial aircraft were not permitted to land in the United States.
SWAN SAID THE group had raised $3,500 in the last few weeks by sending out 2,000 solicitation letters and asking for donations. The group also set up a booth this weekend at the Lawnery Flower, Lawn, Garden and Herb Show at Oakland to ask for and offer information.
Swan said the trip had cost AUP about $50,000. The group fell about $20,000 short of the needed needles, and she said her efforts were not begun until January.
In addition to the $5,000 owed to the Holdeme, AUP owes another $12,000 to about a dozen other local businesses, Swan said. He would not identity these creditors but said he knew they would be willing to reduce the debts.
AUP has also asked the Internal Revenue Service to grant them tax-free status. Sawn said. This decision would not deduct donations made to AUP
The project to bring the Soviets to the Relies began in November 1982 when Swan, a local insurance executive, formed AUP.
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