Self-delivered speech therapy provides an opportunity for individualised dosage as a complement to the speech-therapy regime in the long-term rehabilitation pathway. Few apps for speech therapy have been subject to clinical trials, especially on a self-delivered platform. In a crossover design study, the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) and Cookie Theft Picture Description (CTPD) were used to m...

Voice and speech therapy can be performed in various ways depending on the situation, although it is generally a face-to-face manner. Telepractice refers to provision of specialized voice by speech-language pathologists for assessment, therapy, counseling applying telecommunication technology from remote location. Recently, due pandemic situation active use non-face-to-face platforms, interest ...

The demand for intensive and costly speech therapy to patients impaired by communicative disorders can potentially be alleviated by developing computer-based systems that provide automatized speech therapy in the patient’s home environment. In this paper we report on research aimed at developing such a system that combines serious gaming with automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology to pro...

Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the voice outcomes before and after the administration of voice therapy in patients who suffered an injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve after undergoing thyroidectomy. Methods: The sample consisted of 26 patients (2 males and 24 females) aged between 18 and 80 years (m=55±12) who experienced injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve fol...

BACKGROUND Awareness of individual phonemes in words is a late-acquired level of phonological awareness that usually develops in the early school years. It is generally agreed to have a close relationship with early literacy development, but its role in speech change is less well understood. Speech and language therapy for children with speech disorder involves tasks that appear, either implici...