Echolalia is a natural phenomenon in the development of child speech. After 30 months age, echolalia becomes pathological phenomenon, most often associated with deficits ability to initiate and sustain social interaction. Researchers argue about role acquisition language communication skills people autism spectrum disorder. They are trying answer question whether an inhibiting factor or it can ...

objective: bipolar disorder is a severe mental disorder, and its prevalence is around 1% to 2%. despite a vast literature around bipolar disorder, the reasons of its nonadherence and rehospitalization is still obscure. several symptoms of bipolar disorder include changes in activity level, cognitive abilities, speech, and vegetative functions, such as sleep, sexual activity, as well as aggressi...

Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that affects speech and language functionalities at varying degrees. The recovery of lost communication functionalities is possible through frequent and intense speech therapy sessions. The aim of the VITHEA -Virtual Therapist for Aphasia Treatmentproject is to exploit speech and language technology (SLT) to facilitate the recovery process of Portug...

BACKGROUND The appearance of the praxis disorder during the first years of development has been frequently designated as childhood apraxia of speech. The present theoretical perspectives direct the speech therapist to new tendencies regarding therapeutic intervention. AIM To present a bibliographic review of the last two years about childhood speech apraxia. CONCLUSION The present literatur...

A critical examination of speech motor control depends on an in-depth understanding of network connectivity associated with Brodmann areas 44 and 45 and surrounding cortices. Damage to these areas has been associated with two conditions-the speech motor programming disorder apraxia of speech (AOS) and the linguistic/grammatical disorder of Broca's aphasia. Here we focus on AOS, which is most co...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Fanconi anemia is a hereditary chromosomal instability disorder. Hearing loss and ear abnormalities are among the many manifestations reported in this disorder. In addition, Fanconi anemia patients often complain about hearing difficulties in situations with background noise (speech perception in noise difficulties). Our study aimed to describe the prevalence of hearing lo...

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder, resulting in mumbled, slurred or slow speech that is generally difficult to understand by both humans and machines. Traditional Automatic Speech Recognizers (ASR) perform poorly on dysarthric speech recognition tasks. In this paper, we propose the use of deep autoencoders to enhance the Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) based features in order to ...

BACKGROUND Auditory evoked potentials in children with phonological disorder. AIM To characterize the long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP) results N1, P2, N2 and P300 of children with phonological disorder and to verify the improvement of such potentials with speech therapy. METHOD 25 children without phonological disorder (control group) and 41 with phonological disorder (study ...

1 Speech and hearing therapist (MS student in Human Communication Disorder Federal University of Santa Maria) 2 Speech and Hearing Therapist; PhD in Human Communication Disorders Federal University of São Paulo Paulista School of Medicine (Associate Professor Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Speech and Hearing Therapy Federal University of Santa Maria) 3 MD; PhD in Human Communication Disorder...

Defective pronunciation of one or more mother language phones, i.e. dyslalia, represents the most frequent speech impairment both in children and adult people. Cases of persisting speech disorder need professional approach and help. The aim of the study was to obtain a model of physiological articulation of the sibilant "s" in children. The method of FFT spectral analysis was made use of. Resul...