Background: speech and voice training for laryngectomized patients with tracheoesophageal prosthesis. Aim: to compare the quality of oral communication of a group of laryngectomized patients with tracheoesophageal prostheses, pre and post speech and voice training. Method: voice and speech samples of 17 laryngectomized patients were analyzed before and after receiving speech and voice training....

Reference this material as American Speech-LanguageHearing Association. (2006). Guidelines for speech-language pathologists in diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders across the life span. Available from http://www.asha.org/members/deskref-journal/deskref/default

Reference this material as American Speech-LanguageHearing Association. (2006). Principles for speech-language pathologists in diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders across the life span: Technical report. Available from http://www.asha.org/members/deskref-journal/deskref/default

BACKGROUND The intensity and duration of speech difficulty inherently associated with lingual therapy is a significant issue of concern in orthodontics. This study was designed to evaluate and to compare the duration of changes in speech between labial and lingual orthodontics. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective longitudinal clinical study was designed to assess speech of 24 patients undergo...

----------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------------------------The objective approach has an advantage over the manual, which provides consistence measurement required for assessment of stuttered speech. The number of dimensions (multi dimension) plays a key role in objective assessment of stuttering. The purpose o...

Methods for the evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of speech input / output systems are well established. However, user subjective reactions to speech interfaces may well be a more important predictor of real world success. A review of existing subjective measures of speech system usability reveals a number of limitations in the approaches taken. This paper then summarises the work ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the interest of using automatic speech analyses for the assessment of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS Healthy elderly control (HC) subjects and patients with MCI or AD were recorded while performing several short cognitive vocal tasks. The voice recordings were processed, and the first vocal markers were extracted using ...

Learning Objectives: After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Understand the mechanism of speech production. 2. Recognize the specific cause of a speech abnormality (structural deficit, neurogenic deficit, misarticulation, or mechanical interference). 3. Perform a thorough clinical assessment using an intraoral examination and speech production analysis. 4. Understand ...

This paper examines the literature on the use of crowdsourcing for speech-related tasks: speech acquisition, transcription and annotation as well as the assessment of speech technology. 29 papers were found, representing, 37 different experiments, which were annotated and analyzed to find trends in the field. The paper focuses on the different techniques used for quality control and the variety...