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“Digame”: Communication Beyond Language Barriers

August 2, 2019

During my last outpatient pediatrics clinic in residency, a patient and his mother reminded me that the therapeutic relationship can transcend language. I had been taking care of a young boy, whom I’ll refer to as “A,” since the beginning of his life. He had developmental delays and several other medical problems. His mother was […]

Janine Bernardo ⋅ A Day in the Life Communication, language, patient experience ⋅

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Re-thinking Language as a Scientific Tool

April 3, 2019

Preclusion of efficacious scientific communication, nucleating from the cultivation of an elitist scientific culture, is a pervasive detriment to the impact of science. Wait, let me turn off scientist mode and start over. Ahem. Occam’s razor — often interpreted as: when there are various solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one — represents a […]

Talia Henkle ⋅ A Day in the Life Communication, language ⋅

Johns Hopkins Postdoc Explains the Bilingual Advantage

January 6, 2016

If you’ve been interested in learning a second language or already speak more than one language, the concept of “bilingual advantage” may pique your interest. Many would agree that speaking more than one language helps us to more broadly communicate but it may also offer cognitive advantages in executive function (processes such as task flexibility, […]

ytreesukosol ⋅ Perspectives in Research language, Neuroscience ⋅

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