communication disorder is a widespread disabling problems and associated with adverse, long term outcome that impact on individuals, families and academic achievement of children in the school years and affect vocational choices later in adulthood. the aim of this study was to determine prevalence of speech disorders specifically stuttering, voice, and speech-sound disorders in primary school s...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

INTRODUCTION This is a round table presentation on disorders of communication. Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges are analyzed. Autism is considered to be an important clinical syndrome in which there may be different degrees of affectation of behaviour, alterations of language and deficit in social interaction. There is therefore a similar phenotype with slight differences probably due to d...

been a commitment to the notion that the subtypes or dimensions of developmental speech sound disorders are organized on the basis of their etiology, and that the surface features of these disorders will reflect this multiple causal organization. Certain key points of this perspective are particularly prominent. First, etiology is key to the study of developmental communication disorders. This ...

This paper resumes the main research activities and results obtained at the CNR Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the field of communication disorders. Main research challenges are focused on the design, development and use innovative technologies and methods for: i) early and objective detection of hearing loss in newborns and adults; ii) enhancement of fitting and stimulation in neuro-pr...