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The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports research in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language.
"Human communication research now has more possibilities for productive exploration than at any other time in history."
Dr. James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIDCD
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