PURPOSE There has been renewed interest on the part of speech-language pathologists to understand how the motor system learns and determine whether principles of motor learning, derived from studies of nonspeech motor skills, apply to treatment of motor speech disorders. The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce principles that enhance motor learning for nonspeech motor skills and to examine...

Introduction At preschool age, children develop all the speech functions, including planning function, which allows them to think through future statement. Researchers find a link between impaired ability for forecasting and anxiety disorders, as well emotional disorders. Objectives identifying specifics of in with Methods study involved 48 children: 24 age without developmental Empirical exami...

INTRODUCTION Speech development in preschool children should be consistent with a child's overall development. However, disorders of speech in childhood are not uncommon. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of demographic and socio-economic conditions on the prevalence of speech disorders in preschool children in Bitola. METHODS The study is observational and pros...

The aim of the study was to determine the incidence and types of speech disorders in patients with acute stroke. The study was performed in 936 acute stroke patients admitted to University Department of Neurology, Tuzla University Clinical Center, in the period from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2008. Out of 936 study patients, speech disorders were verified on admission in 771 (82.37%) ...

Olfactory disorders concern many diseases of laryngological, neurological, oncological and gerontological origins, sometimes are one the diagnostic symptoms a serious illness. The aim this article is to describe sense smell (anatomy, physiology, functions, etiology characteristics disorders) and, in particular, present context logopedic theory practice. Speech therapists may inter alia assess f...

We investigated the speech recognition of a person with articulation disorders resulting from athetoid cerebral palsy. Recently, the accuracy of speaker-independent speech recognition has been remarkably improved by the use of stochastic modeling of speech. However, the use of those acoustic models causes degradation of speech recognition for a person with different speech styles (e.g., articul...

Speech sound disorders are almost always identified and described by their auditoryperceptual properties, as determined by adult listeners.Given that auditory-perceptual properties are extracted from the acoustic signal of speech, it follows that acoustic methods should be highly suited to the study of these disorders. But the capability for doing something is not the same as the necessity or e...