Retelling the International Paper Story

Retelling "The Good Samaritan". Jesus' parable is the founding story of Catholic health care.

Assessment of Speech Sound Production by Story-retelling in Persian Speaking Children: Introducing a New Instrument

Background: Speech and language pathologists should include connected speech assessment as part of their evaluation for children with speech sound disorders. The purpose of the present study was to design and validate an instrument for assessment of articulation by story-retelling for Persian children.Methods: 261 typically developing children, aged 4-5 years old in Iran, Tehran, in 2016-2017, ...

Emotional facial and vocal expressions during story retelling by children and adolescents with high-functioning autism.

PURPOSE People with high-functioning autism (HFA) have qualitative differences in facial expression and prosody production, which are rarely systematically quantified. The authors' goals were to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze prosody and facial expression productions in children and adolescents with HFA. METHOD Participants were 22 male children and adolescents with HFA and 18 typic...

the effect of cued speech on story retelling in late implanted prelingual hearing impaired students

background and aim: cued speech makes speech perception easier and improves both lip-reading ability and residual hearing usage. the purpose of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of using cued speech on story retelling as a rehabilitation tool for late cochlear implanted, prelingual, hearing-impaired students. methods: this was an experimental study with a pre- and post-test plan...

SSML Goes International – A Standard Story

Since September 2004, the SSML 1.0 [1] specification has been a W3C Recommendation. SSML is the standard way that a Voice Browser controls speech synthesis engine. Given that it is a standard, actions to define the language of the text to be rendered, to change between several voices, to insert pauses, to perform simple text normalization (e.g. acronym expansions, such as reading W3C as “World ...