If you see it, set course for Duke
A hand-crafted model ship, which took
two years to construct, has sailed to
unknown shores and its return to home
port in the medical center is anxiously
awaited.
The ship is 26 inches (66 centimeters)
long and 25 inches (63. S centimeters)
high and sits in a wooden cradle fastened
to the inside of a glass case.
It was presented to the medical center
in 1939 by James H. Monsees in memory
of his wife, Sadie Lassiter Monsees,
whose name was inscribed on a brass
plate attached to the case.
Monsees' gift was displayed for a
number of years in the hospital lobby. It
also has been "docked" in the Private
Diagnostic clinic foyer and in the office of
the late Dr. R.J. Reeves when he was
chairman of radiology.
The detailed model is of the Halfmoon
and is a Henry Hudson handmade crafted
model ship.
Anyone who has any information
which might lead to the location of the
ship is urged to contact Elon Clark, Box
3701, or call 684-3633.
NCME programs
Network for Continuing Medical
Education (NCME) programs on
"Hyperglycemia: A Guide to Decision
Making" and "Face Pain: Differential
Diagnosis and Treatment" will be shown
today at 1 p.m.
Programs on "Management of Patients
on Respirators," "The New Vegetarian"
and "Giant Cell Arteritis: Diagnosis and
Treatment" will be shown Wednesday,
May 31, at 1 p.m.
NCME programs can be viewed in
Room M406 at Duke and Rooms D3008,
C6002 and C7002 and Building 16 at the
VA Hospital.
Director says Acoustic Program a "family affair'
"In counseling parents we try to lessen "The Institute for Speech and Hearing Trinnled Children's Assistance Fui
the guilt and help the parents make in Chapel Hill has a pre-school program
constructive progress toward dealing and there is also a program at Cary
with the situation," Mack explained. Elementary School."
"Most parents are concerned about the Any geographical region
cause of the hearing loss, especially when The Acoustic Program can accept
the cause for the loss is unknown." children from any geographical region,"
Often other members of the family are Mack said. Presently we have children
brought in for training sessions. from all over the state and from Virginia,
"We call our acoustic program a 'family although most of the children are from
affair' because we like to deal with anyone the immediate area."
in the family who comes in contact with Mack said several options for fee
the child," Mack said. "Parents, payment are available at the Acoustic
grandparents and siblings need to learn Program.
how to talk with the child." "The sliding scale method of payment.
The Acoustic Program is part of the based on the parents' income, is used in
Center for Speech and Hearing determining fees for public patients," she
Disorders. families may qualify for the
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normal hearing development that parents
should be aware of:
* 3 months—an infant will startle at a
loud noise.
* 6 months—infant will begin to babble
and will enjoy playing with listening toys;
infant also will begin to search for the
source of sounds.
* 10 months—there should be much
inflection in baby's babble; infant will
respond to voices, even soft ones; infant
will stop action if name is called.
* 12-13 months—infant will start
imitating words and will point to familiar
objects and people.
* 15-18 months—infant will start using
some words.
Putting words together
After this age, a child will start using
word combinations.
"After 20 months, some infants may
slow down in putting words together,"
Mack said. "But as the motor
development progresses, the infant's
expressive language will start to advance
again.
"Parents should be aware of these
milestones in development and should
seek help if their child is not showing
proper listening, speech or language
behavior," she said.
As with any disability, early detection is
important to the adjustment of the child.
"It's very important to identify
hearing-impaired infants as early as
possible," Mack said. "The prognosis is
better with early detection."
Counseling helps parents
Counseling for the parents is an
important part of the treatment of a child
who has a hearing loss.
Crippled Children's Assistance Fund.
Private patients are seen on a set fee
basis."
Use of residual hearing
The parent/infant training portion of
the Duke Acoustic Program is available
for hearing-impaired children from the
time of detection through age 3.
"We emphasize listening and the use of
residual hearing," Mack said. "We counsel
the parents and help them learn to be the
teachers so they can help their child
develop listening skills."
In addition to the parent/infant
program, the Duke program is involved in
early detection projects on the public and
professional levels and provides
consultant work for other professionals.
Promotional efforts
Mack, who has a bachelor's degree in
psychology and a master's in education
for the hearing impaired, has been J
involved in promotional efforts for Better
Hearing and Speech Month.
She was present earlier this month in
the N.C. House chambers when Gov.
James Hunt proclaimed May as Better
Hearing and Speech Month, and she
appeared on a Charlotte variety/talk
show, "Top of the D?y," May 2 and
another talk show in High Point May 9.
Mack said several programs are
available for the hearing impaired in the
Research Triangle area.
"Durham has a regional program
where children of 4 years old are eligible,"
she said. "A variety of options are
available to hearing-impaired children
through this program. The goal of the
Durham program is to place the hearing
impaired child in the least restrictive
educational setting.
Three faculty members promoted
Three medical school faculty members
have been promoted, according to an
announcement made by Dr. Frederic N.
Cleaveland, university provost.
The faculty members and their new
positions are Frederick P. Bruno,
assistant professor of radiology; Dr.
James H. Carter, associate professor of
psychiatry; and Dr. Lazaro Mand'el,
associate professor of physiology.
Bruno earned a B.S. degree in
pharmacy at Purdue University in 1963
and an M.S. degree in radiation physics in
1965 at the University of Florida. Before
joining the Department of Radiology here
as an associate in 1972, he was a research
instructor in radiation physics at the
University of Florida.
A 1956 North Carolina Central
University graduate in biology and
cheitiistry. Carter received his M.D. at
Howard University Medical School in
1966. He served his internship at Walter
Reed General Hospital in Washington,
D.C. and completed a psychiatry
residency at Dorothea Dix Hospital in
Raleigh in 1970.
After spending a year as a fellow in
community and social psychiatry here, he
was named assistant professor of
psychiatry.
Mandel, a native of Lima, Peru, earned
bachelor of science and masters degrees
in electrical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1961 and 1962, respectively. He received
a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and
joined the Duke faculty as assistant
professor of physiology in 1972.
FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE BRAIN—When Dr. Ara Tourian (at lectern) associate professor of
neurology, reviewed “Music and the Brain," edited by Macdonald Critchley and R.A. Henson, he
solicited appropriate assistance from the Ciompi String Quartet. One of the points discussed was
that language abilities are centered in the left hemisphere of the brain, while musical abilities are
centered on the right. After the left side of everyone's brain was stimulated by the discussion, to
which the musicians contributed frequently, the quartet played an early work by Beethoven and a
contemporary piece by Vitald Lutoslawski, thus appealing to the other side. The book review took
place at a recent meeting sponsored by the Irwin A. Brody Fund for the History of the
Neurosciences. The next meeting of the Brody Group will be Friday, June 2 at 3:30 p.m. in the
History of Medicine Reading Room of the Seeley G. Mudd Building. Dr. Richard Cytowic will
present a paper on "The Neurological Illness of Maurice Ravel," a French composer who
developed a progressive disorder in his non-dominant cerebral hemisphere, thus causing
difficulties in comprehending musical language. (Photo hy John Beclon)
Heyden gets German group’s highest award
. • . . 1 1 : L D ciA f^prmanv and the United Statcs in his
A Duke professor received the highest
award of the German Medical
Association last week in West Berlin.
Dr. Siegfried
Heyden, profes
sor of community
and family medi
cine, was honored
for the two-year
cancer education
and screening
program he di-
recetd at 19 tex
tile plants of the
Cannon Mills Co. HEYDEN
The program concluded last fall. Twenty-
four cases of cancer were detected, 18 in
early stages. (See Intercom, 11/18/77.)
Before leaving for Berlin, Heyden said
the screening program "proves that
cancer detection and education can be
inexpensive and cost-effective at the
same time."
Cannon Mills paid about $12 for each
woman employee screened and about $8
for each male employee. A total of 18,000
employees attended cancer education
sessions in the plants and 12,000 agreed
to be checked for cancer and other
diseases. Education and screening took
place on company time.
Heyden received his M.D. degree from
the University of Berlin and his Ph.D.
degree from the University of Zurich. He
has rotated between Switzerland, West
Germany and the United States in his 27-
year medical career.
The professor won the German
Medical Association's highest award, the
Curt Adam Prize, once before in 1962. He
was honored then for a study showing
that heart attacks and strokes could be
predicted by looking at six risk factors —
smoking, obesity, high cholesterol,
diabetes, physical inactivity and
hypertension.
In 1975 he won the association's
Hufeland Prize for his health education
efforts in Swiss schools and department
stores. He was awarded the association's
silver medal in the same year for studies
of heart disease and cancer epidemiology