The Human Resources in Health (HRH) academic field is recognized as a critical area, which is part of the reorientation process in the health sector. The elaboration of the Unified Health System (SUS) represents challenges to the academic field process, especially regarding new careers such as speech-language pathology. This is related with the lack of awareness regarding collective health and ...

INTRODUCTION Difficulties in accessing allied health services, especially in rural and remote areas, appear to be driving the use of telehealth services to children in schools. The objectives of this study were to investigate the experiences and views of school executive staff and therapy assistants regarding the feasibility and acceptability of a speech-language pathology telehealth program fo...

Vocal dysfunctions and pathologies can be devastating to one's ability to produce speech properly. A novel method for approaching the problem of speech pathology assessment is presented in this paper. The focus is not to detect or measure all possible pathologies, but rather to assess quality for the case where the probablility of pathology is high. The system is a screening test that combines ...

The primary objective of this research study was to investigate the perceived effects of feeding back the results of dynamic assessment to the child verbally and through the medium of video. Fourteen children, aged 6 – 11 years, and their class teachers were involved in the research. The children and teachers were interviewed prior to the DA session, and then again approximately 6 weeks after a...

Since the early 1990s, Optimality Theory (OT) has quickly gained ground in phonology. Its main appeal lies in two characteristics: the focus on wellformedness of the output and the softness of constraints, where a constraint can be violated in order to satisfy more important requirements. A conspicuous characteristic of classic OT is that all constraints on the output should compete with each o...

Conversational entrainment, a pervasive communication phenomenon in which dialogue partners adapt their behaviors to align more closely with one another, is considered essential for successful spoken interaction. While well-established in other disciplines, this phenomenon has received limited attention in the field of speech pathology and the study of communication breakdowns in clinical popul...

objectives: speech and language development is one of the main aspects of evolution in humans and is one of the most complex brain functions such that it is referred to as one of the highest cortical functions such as thinking, reading and writing. speech and language disorders are considered as a major public health problem because they cause many secondary complications in the childhood and a...