News

• Two papers describing Acquiring Literacy Naturally just published:

  Massaro, D. W. (2012a). Acquiring Literacy Naturally. American Scientist, 100, 324-333.

  Massaro, D. W. (2012b). Speech Perception and Reading: Two Parallel Modes of Understanding Language and Implications for Acquiring Literacy Naturally. American Journal Psychology, 125, 307-320.

  April 13, 2012 Dom gave paper Acquiring Literacy Naturally. Society for Experimental Psychologists, Houston TX.

  Dom gave talk to very engaged life long learners at the Fromm Institute, San Francisco “The Psyentific Mind: Behavioral Science & Technology Expand Its Reach” Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m., Xavier Room, Fromm Hall (lecture: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m., 10 minute break, Q&A: 11:10 – 11:40 a.m.)

  October 5, 2011 Dom applied for a U. S Patent Massaro, D. W. (2011a). Method And System For Acquisition Of Literacy. Patent Application Number 13/253,335, October 5, 2011.

  May 14-19, 2011 Dom gave paper Massaro, D. W. (2011b). A Reading Window for Visually Challenged Individuals. 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. San Diego, CA, May 14-19, 2011.

  February 2011 Dom presented a paper, Universal Literacy: The Digital Age Engages the Learning Brain, at iGENERATION: HOW THE DIGITAL AGE IS ALTERING STUDENT BRAINS, LEARNING & TEACHING. 28th International Conference for Pre-K through University Educators, Parents and Clinicians, Feb. 17-19, 2011 San Francisco, CA. http://www.learningandthebrain.com/brain28.html

  November, 2010 Professor Emeritus Dominic Massaro, Psychology, “Universal Literacy: The Digital Age Engages the Learning Brain” in the Music Recital Hall, Nov 3, 2010. Massaro proposed a system for teaching reading to very young children using a pair of glasses that can display text and which supports a small microphone and video camera. An iPhone performs voice recognition and displays the text on the eye glasses. The goal is to teach reading at the time the child’s brain is at its peak development. He demonstrated working prototypes. See the lecture at http://ic.ucsc.edu/videoarchive/Emeriti%20Lectures/Emeriti%2011-3-10-H.264%20LAN%20Streaming.mov October, 2010

  Dom applied for a PPA Massaro, D. W. (2010). Provisional Patent Application, Digital Learning of Written Language without Formal Instruction, filed on October 6, 2010. Scholastic’s System 44 is comprised of a team of experts, including Dominic Massaro, who worked together to create “The Breakthrough Foundational Reading Program for Our Most Challenged Readers in Grades 3-12+” — Coming Fall 2008.

• Science Daily article on Baldi helping remedial readers, language learners, and autistic children
• Speech Technology magazine article on Baldi and cell phones
• KUSP radio interview (starts at around the half-way point)
• Swedish-language article on Baldi
• Czech-language article on Baldi
• UCSC Currents article: UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone
• UCSC Currents article: Animated tutors help remedial readers, language learners, autistic children
• KION 46 story on virtual speech therapist | Watch Video (2:07): Quicktime
• Fox News article: Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Ones
• ScienceDaily article: Animated Computer Tutors Help Remedial Readers, Language Learners, Autistic Children
• WebMD article: Baldi Helps Kids With Autism: Virtual Talking Head Teaches Autistic Children Language Skills

2006 News

• Tech Museum Announces Annual Award Recipients
• UCSC Currents article: Psychology professor heeds parents’ pleas for help

2005 News

• The Patricia C. Lindamood, M.S., CC-SLP Leadership Award For Clinical Excellence In Language and Reading. CSUMB Center for Reading Diagnosis and Instruction, California State University, Monterey Bay.
• Newsweek article: Baldi helping our children with Autism

2001 News

• Dr. Dean Edell’s Medical Journal reports on Baldi’s use in training deaf children. Watch the streaming video report from ABC TV.
• Researchers find positive effects of ADHD Schools for treatment of teens and young adults.
• Primetime Thursday reports on a revolutionary 3D technology that may help deaf and autistic children as well as stroke victims. Watch a virtual Diane Sawyer for a preview.

1998 News

• Lessons from a talking head The Oregonian
• Did you see what I said? The Times
• Seeing is Hearing The Observer
• UCSC Currents article: UCSC psychologist teams up with Oregon school to help deaf children.
• Speech Recognition and Sensory Integration by Dominic W. Massaro and David G. Stork. In May-June 1998 American Scientist. Consider what goes through your mind when you attempt to identify an apples variety – Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, McIntosh or Fuji…

1997 News

• A new book by Dominic Massaro entitled, “Perceiving Talking Faces: From Speech Perception to a Behavioral Principle” (Bradford Books: Cognitive Psychology Series – The MIT Press) is a comprehensive resource for those interested in speechreading, pattern recognition, face-to-face communication, and the Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception (FLMP). The book presents converging evidence across several domains of perception that supports the FLMP as a universal law of perception. Included is a CD-ROM with many examples, stimuli from experiments, and Baldi (the computer generated talking head) in action.

1996 News

• UCSC Science Notes Summer 1996: Speech – A Sight to Behold.

1995 News

• Visualizing Speech Discover
• Baldi like second teacher in Tucker-Maxon classrooms OGI Matrix Technology Awards

1994 News

• Screen Presence Metro Santa Cruz.