News in 2008

• 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

2006

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

2005

• 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

• Dr. Dean Edell's Medical Journal reports on Baldi's use in training deaf children. Watch the streaming video report from ABC TV.
• 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

• 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

• 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

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

1995

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

1994

• Screen Presence Metro Santa Cruz.