Delayed Speech and Developmental Aphasia

Speech segmentation in aphasia.

BACKGROUND Speech segmentation is one of the initial and mandatory phases of language learning. Although some people with aphasia have shown a preserved ability to learn novel words, their speech segmentation abilities have not been explored. AIMS We examined the ability of individuals with chronic aphasia to segment words from running speech via statistical learning. We also explored the rel...

Decoding speech for understanding and treating aphasia.

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder with a diverse set of symptoms that can affect virtually any linguistic modality across both the comprehension and production of spoken language. Partial recovery of language function after injury is common but typically incomplete. Rehabilitation strategies focus on behavioral training to induce plasticity in underlying neural circuits to maximize lingu...

Aphasia and the Cerebral Speech Mechanism

Delayed Referral in Children with Speech and Language Disorders for Rehabilitation Services

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...

Inner speech in post-stroke motor aphasia

The goal of the present study was to determine whether chronic post-stroke patients with motor aphasia have impaired inner speech abilities and whether they use inner speech in everyday life. To answer these questions, we recruited eight chronic post-stroke aphasic patients and 13 cognitively healthy adults, who underwent testing on a range of evaluative tests and four experiments specifically ...