In this talk we will give an overview of the different kinds of communication disorders. We will concentrate on communication disorders related to language and speech (i.e., not look at disorders like blindness or deafness). Speech and language disorders can range from simple sound substitution to the inability to understand or use language. Thus, a disorder may affect one or several linguistic...

The most frequently used methods of automatic detection and classification of speech disorders are based on experimental determination of specific distinctive features for a given kind of disorder, and working out a suitable algorithm that finds such a disorder in the acoustic signal. For example, for detection of prolonged phonemes, analysis of the duration of articulation is used, and on the ...

UNLABELLED Speech disorder that continues into middle childhood is rarely studied compared with speech disorder in the early years. Speech production in single words, connected speech and nonword repetition was assessed for 7390 eight-year-old children within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). The majority (n=6399) had typical speech and 50 of these children served as...

BACKGROUND Sentence imitation has been identified as a good indicator of children's language skills, with performance differentiating children with specific language impairment and showing relationships with other language measures. It has a number of advantages over other methods of assessment. The assessment of morphosyntax in children who have severe speech difficulties presents unique chall...

Early detection of depression allows rapid intervention and reduce the escalation disorder. Conventional method requires patient to seek diagnosis treatment by visiting a trained clinician. Bio-sensors technology such as automatic using speech can be used assist early for detecting remotely those who are at risk. In this research, we focus on Bahasa Malaysia language signals that recorded via s...

Stuttering is characterized by frequent repetition or lengthening of sounds, syllables words, hesitations pauses that disrupt the rhythmic flow speech. It may be accompanied movements face and/or other parts body coincide in time with repetitions, prolongations, speech flow. The prevalence stuttering ranges from 0.3% to 5.6%. Usually for 80%-90% patients starts gradually when children are 2-7 y...

BACKGROUND One contemporary view of stuttering posits that speech disfluencies arise from anomalous speech motor control. PURPOSE To verify the rest muscle tension and speech reaction time of fluent and stuttering adults. METHOD 22 adults, divided in two groups: G1--11 fluent individuals; G2--11 stutterers. Electromyography recordings (inferior orbicularis oris) were collected in two differ...

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by weakness, paralysis, or poor coordination of the muscles responsible for speech. Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been developed for disordered speech, factors such as low intelligibility and limited vocabulary decrease speech recognition accuracy. In this paper, we introduce a technique that can increase recognition...