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
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.
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.
KUSP radio interview (starts at around the half-way point)