NASAL PEPTIDE ANALOGS FOR TREATING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Not Available Music is an important part of social development for young children and has proven to contribute to mathematic, linguistic, and motor development. Deaf children are not privy to the nursery rhymes and songs that hearing children learn as a part of their culture. This project will initiate development of a CD-ROM for young deaf children in which (1) the story/concept, (2) volume, (3) notes, and (4) rhythm of three simple songs are depicted through graphic representations of each of these aspects that are coordinated with each other. Audio information will be converted to numerical data, which in turn, will be mathematically analyzed to provide depictions of the sound components. Programming in Visual Basic will control presentation and timing of graphics. Videoclips of ASL translations and word-for-word signed representations of the songs will be elective features. An interpreter dressed as a signing "dog," used as lead character for other IDRT preschool CD-ROM materials, will be filmed for this purpose. Phase II will result in development of three CD-ROM's of five songs each. During Phase III, the CD-ROMs will be marketed through educational software distributors, many of whom already distribute other IDRT products