Due to nature of jobs, unhealthy social habits people are subjected to risk of voice problem [9]. If there is some neurological disorder then also there is problem of voice disorder. Therefore, voice signal can be a useful tool to diagnose them. The awkwardness of analog equipments has simulated development of digital computer techniques for processing and analysis of pathological speech signal...

conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...

The purpose of this study is the development of language-intervention content, “Special Friend, iRobiQ.” The play-robot content serves various roles: The promotion of language interaction for children with speechlanguage disorders; an interlocutor friend (Talking Friend, iRobiQ); the transmission of data for diagnosis and evaluation between parents and experts; and a monitor for the supervisor ...

Very few studies have shown associations between autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Chiari 1 malformation. Here, we report an 10-year-old male that presented after having seizures with a history of Chiari 1 malformation, autism spectrum disorder and ADHD with moderate mental retardation and speech delay. This case highlights the fact that autism spectrum diso...

Speech impairment refers to the inability to produce normal speech. Dysarthria is a kind of speech disorder where there is a difficulty in producing the normal speech. The proposed system makes use of an acoustic plate that senses the vocal cord vibrations.When a set of unpatterned words are spoken by the user, the words are compared with the preprogrammed words in the speech IC where it is ana...

OBJECTIVE This research addresses the relationship of formal thought disorder in the early stages of psychotic illness to the long-term outcome of mental health many years later. The specific topic of concern was to evaluate the prognostic significance of thought disorder on the severity of psychosis over time. METHODS Subjects with new-onset psychosis were evaluated on a variety of measures ...

In 1990, researcher Jane Hurst and her colleagues published "An Extended Family With a Dominantly Inherited Speech Disorder," in which they proposed that a single gene was responsible for a language disorder across three generations of a family. Affected individuals of the family, called the KE family, had difficulty producing, expressing and comprehending speech. Hurst and her team studied the...