Introduction: Speech intelligibility, the ability to be understood verbally by listeners, is the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of cochlear implantation. Thus, the goal of this study was to compare the speech intelligibility between normal-hearing and cochlear-implanted children using the Persian intelligibility test.   Materials and Methods: Twenty-six cochlear-implanted childre...

OBJECTIVE To compare speech development following unilateral cochlear implant (CI) between a group of prelingually deaf children who have been educated exclusively using spoken language and another group who have used two languages (spoken and sign language). DESIGN A simple group quasi-experimental design was used with a control group. METHODS The sample comprised 7 girls and 11 boys, aged...

background and purpose: speech intelligibility refers to how speech is understandable by listeners.  this study examined speech intelligibility in children (persian native speakers) with spastic cerebral palsy aged 8-12 years old. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was performed in 31dysarthric students (….. boys and …..girls)  in tehran, 2014. a list of words and sentences were pre...

Objectives: One of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. The speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the Persian children with Down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

Abstract Background Children with specific language impairment (SLI) fail to develop age-appropriate despite being apparently normal in other respects. Those children usually have abnormal speech perception noise. This work is designed investigate background noise those children. It included two groups of children: control group (15 typical development) and study (25 diagnosed SLI). All were su...

objectives: one of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. the speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. the purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the persian children with down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

This paper describes the use of a combination of intra-oral sensory stimulation and electropalatography (EPG) in the treatment of a case with severe developmental verbal dyspraxia. A multiple-baseline design was used. The treatment duration was 11 months and started when the subject was 5 years old. The efficacy of the treatment was assessed by calculations of percentage of correctly articulate...

For functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of the neural substrates of language, the ability to have subjects performing overt verbal responses while in the scanner environment is important for several reasons. Most directly, overt responses allow the investigator to measure the accuracy and reaction time of the behavior. One problem, however, is that magnetic resonance gradient noise ob...

Storybook reading accompanied by adult-guided conversation provides a stimulating context for children's language development. Conversational agents powered artificial intelligence, such as smart speakers, are prevalent in homes and have the potential to engage children storybook partners. However, little research has explored effectiveness of using conversational support This study examined ho...

 In this paper, we propose a facial modeling technique based on the MPEG-4 Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Coding for automating frame sequence generation of a talking head. With the definition and animation parameters on a generic face object, the shape, textures and expressions of an adapted frontal face can generally be controlled and synchronized by the phonemes transcribed from plain text. By th...