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May 29, 1990, NIH Record, Vol. XLII, No. 11 May 29, 1990 Vol. XLII No. l l "The Second U.S. Department of Health Best Thing and Human Services About Payday" National Institutes o f Health e Recori Free Time and Services Given Nill Docs Answer Call to Help The Needy of Washington By Anne Barber A cry for help was mailed recently to hundreds of local physicians residing in the Washingt0n area asking for aid in caring for the needy by volunteering rime and services co che Zacchaeus Medical Clinic. That letter was signed by Dr. Allen L. Dollar, a volunteer physician at the clinic and a senior staff fellow working in NHLBI's Pathology Brand1. Dollar has worked at the clinic, on and off, for the past 13 ye11rs. He began volunteering while an undergraduate student at Georgetown University and worked there for 4 years as a physician's assistant before going off tO medi­ cal school in Baltimore. Returning to the Washington area 4 years ago, he rejoined the clinic. Zacchaeus is a private, nonprofit clinic operated entirely on private donations. le provides free physician visits, free laborat0ry A 111()unted member of the U.S. Park Police makes his way thrOtifl.h a a-owd of about I, 000 protesters out­ work and free medication co the poor. side Bid_~. 31 during a demomtration May 21 by fl,ay rights activists. Police arrested 82 people both 011 "When I joined the clinic in 1977, che ca111p11s and al an NTH rental buildinfl, in Rockville. majority of the patients were prostitutes from rhe 14th St. corridor and homeless people 'S wrm the NIH' from the nearby shelters," says Dollar. "Ir was (See ZACCHAEUS, Page 41 Activists Protest Pace of Federal AIDS Research By Rieb McManus NIDCD Carries Communication Lecture to Capitol Hill About 1,000 activists protesting the NIAID advisory council meeting ac which alleged slow pace of federal research agai nsc research directions for the inscirute-NIH's By Carla Garnett AIDS spent the morning of May 21 marching lead AIDS research component-were on che N IH campus and at three NIH rental discussed. Saying what you want is always easier than buildings. Eighty-two demonstratOrs were "We have a great deal of empathy with getting what you want, right' Wrong. The arrested, including 21 who broke into che chose who are fruscraced with che pace of bio­ most recent lecture of the Medicine for the office of Dr. Daniel Hoth, director of NIAlD's medical research," acknowledged Dr. Anthony Public on the Hill series highlighted simple Division of AIDS, at che Control Dara Build­ Fauci, who in addition co directing NIAID is communication skills taken for granted by ing in Rockville. Small gt0ups also gathered also NIH associate director for AIDS research. most Americans but covered by more chan at che Federal Bldg. in Bethesda and ac Execu­ ··But critics of che pace of HIV research don't 14 million children and adults in the United tive Plaza in Rockville. understand che nature of biomedical investiga­ Sraces. Chancing slogans and meandering from one tion. Progress against HIV has actually been D r. Judith Cooper, program administrat0r campus building to another, che main group unprecedented in che history of medicine." in the National lnsticuce on Oe11foess and of NIH protesters engaged in various forms of Fauci and Hoth were the objects of several Ocher Communication Disorders, discussed cheater, including impromptu skies, songs and effigies and posters; one activist carried a "When Talking and Listening Aren't Easy,"' a dances. bloodied Halloween mask char bore Fauci's lecture cosponsored May 4 by Sen. Tom A mass "die-in" on the lawn of Bldg. l name. Harkin (D-lowa) and NIH's Division of Legis­ closed che demonstration as ranks of uni­ 'Tm noc angry or upset at them,"' Fauci lative Analysis. formed officers, some on horseback, protected said at a press conference in Wilson Hall at T he talk, held in the Dirksen Senate Office NIH headquarters; a splinter g roup of protes­ che end of the procesc. "One day of disruption Bldg. on Capit0! Hill, was che third in a ters st0pped traffic on Rockville Pike briefly, on campus is inconvenient, buc ic is noc going spinoff series chat debuted lase summer when marching with locked arms and banners. co have an effect on what we do. I'm con­ organizers of the Clinical Center's popular Much of che NIH campus was closed co cerned, however, that protests like chis will Medicine for the Layman lectures began pre­ nonemployee traffic and many workers stayed have a demoralizing effect on che researchers senting selected calks co interested home as the procesc, dubbed "St0rm the in the trenches. Ir's no fun co work 18 hours a congressional employees. NIH" by organizers from the AIDS Coalition day and have someone put up a sign saying Cooper began her lecture by defining terms: tO Unleash Power (ACT l.Jl>) cook place from you' re a murderer. Speech diJOrders involve problems wich speech 7 a.m. co noon. "I thought the procesr was interescing che­ (See NIDCD, Page 2 ) The event was rimed to coincide with an (See PROTEST, Page BJ page 2 The Record May 29. 1990 NIDCD Use Your Voice for Success (Continued from Page 1} A class titled "Voice for Success for Profes­ sounds, intonation, pitch and fluency, and sional Credibility" will be held July 9 and 16 affect more than 8 million Americans. In in Billings Audirorium, Bldg . 38. le is addition, more than 6 million children and designed co give each participant new adults in the United States have langt1age behaviors for dealing with presentations and disorders--difficulcy communicating and com­ difficult interpersonal situations. Individual prehending words and sentences. coaching with video feedback is provided. Cooper focused on three specific speech and Cose is $200 for two mornings; application language disorders- stuttering, specific lan­ deadline is June 13. For more information guage impairment (slow talking) and aphasia, contact Georgette Thompson at the NIH which results from brain damage afrer a NTDCD director Dt·. James B. Sn/JW Jr. and Training Center, 496-6371. D stroke. program administrator Dr. Judith Cooper pal/Jed Stuttering daces back thousands of years and briefly far a photo before Cooper's "Medicine for the NCI Offers Prevention Fellowship is characterized by repetitions and hesitations Public" lecture on speech and language disorders as well as nonspeech behaviors such as rapid given recently i,1 the Dirksen Senate Bldg. on The NCI has a unique opporrnnicy for eye blinks or head movements. Capitol Hill. Notable sturcerers include the lace British M.D.s and Ph.D.s interested in cancer preven­ prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, scien­ tion and control co train in chis emerging tist Sir Isaac Newton, early American "Many (with SU) are lacer labeled as learn­ discipline. The Cancer Prevention Fellowship politician Thomas Jefferson and country and ing disabled," Cooper said, urging parents Program lasts 2 co 3 years and offers inde­ western singer Mel Tillis. Stutterers are gener­ who identify problems to gee the child diag­ pendent research opportunities within the ally male and may have a family history of the nosed early. Found early, communicacion Division of Cancer Prevention and Control. disorder. It is estimated that more than 1 mil­ difficulties can often be corrected with speech An academic course covering the current prin­ lion Amedcans stutter. and language therapy. ciples, methods and practices of cancer "Although stuttering was once thought co The final disorder she explained was adult prevention and control is also provided. Many be an emotional disorder, that theory has been aphasia, or the language problems following opportunities exist for additional training and discounted and is no longer accepted, .. said stroke. travel. Applications are due Sept. l ; fellows Cooper, who explained chat any personality Cooper called aphasia "one of the most dev­ scare on July 1, 1991. For more information differences are the effect, not the cause of ascacing effects of stroke" and likened it co a call Barbara Redding, 496-8640. D stuttering. kind of disorienting travel: "Imagine yourself According to Cooper, Stuttering can have a suddenly, involuntarily wandering in a foreign profound impact on the self-esteem, employ­ country, unable to understand che language ment opportunity, academic performance and and unable to communicate your simplest social accivicy of the stutterer. "Many stut­ needs. That's what having aphasia is like. It's terers will avoid altogether situations where frustrating and confusing." The NIB Record they may have co speak," she said. There are several types of aphasia; Cooper Published biweekly at Bethesda, Md., by che Editorial Operacions Branch, Division of Public Information , for the Many children, during the preschool years, srressed three: global, in which widespread informarion of employees of the National lnsticuces of experience a period of dysfluency, Cooper con­ brain damage impairs nearly all aspects of lan­ Health, Depanment of Health and Human Services, and tinued. "Mose pass through this phase and guage; Broca's, which affects mainly verbal circulated to nonemployees by subscription only through develop normally fluent speech. Ochers have communication skills, causing patients co pro­ chc Government Printing Office. T he concem is reprinrable an increase and persistence in the periods of duce inarticulate and ungrammatical speech; without permissjon. Pictures ma>• be available on request. dysfl uency. and, Wernicke's, in which language may be Use o( funds for printing this periodical has been approved "However," she noted, "iris estimated chat an iculace, fluent and grammatical, buc have by the director of ,he Office of Managcmenr and Budget 50 percent or more of all children who stutter little meaning or context.
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