OBJECTIVE To investigate how often elderly patients are discharged from an accident and emergency (A&E) department with unrecognized but remediable problems. METHODS Over a period of six months, 174 elderly patients fulfilling inclusion criteria for the study were discharged from A&E, and of these 97 (56%) agreed to be reviewed in the day hospital. They were assessed by a doctor, nurse, physi...

The relevance of the study problem educating humanistic pedagogical position future speech therapists in process their professional training cannot be doubted, because student youth, as intellectual force Ukrainian state, must become a leader ideas tolerance, an active inspirer its implementation educational space, thus guaranteeing further progressive development society whole. purpose article...

Children with speech difficulties often have delayed phonological awareness development and associated literacy problems. Speech-language pathologists (S-LPs) typically use phonological and articulatory approaches in their treatment of such children. However, it is unclear to what extent phonological awareness training, originally designed to promote literacy skills, might also improve children...

Automatic disorder recognition in speech can be very helpful for the therapist while monitoring therapy progress of the patients with disordered speech. In this article we focus on prolongations. We analyze the signal using Continuous Wavelet Transform with 18 bark scales, we divide the result into vectors (using windowing) and then we pass such vectors into Kohonen network. Quite large search ...

Since 2000, it has been well established that literacy skills are the outgrowth of linguistic capabilities and Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) is a language based disorder. A definite role for the speech language pathologist in management of this group has been well elaborated by speech therapist s (ASHA, 2001; 2004). However the same does not get reflected in the recent literatures like the D...

Automatic disorders recognition in speech can be very helpful for therapist while monitoring therapy progress of patients with disordered speech. This article is focused on sound repetitions. The signal is analyzed using Continuous Wavelet Transform with 16 bark scales, the result is divided into vectors and passed into Kohonen network. Finally, the Kohonen winning neuron result is put on the 3...

Medical Publications. 21s. This book, which is written by one who has himself suffered from stammering and has made a careful study of the subject, describes clearly and in an interesting manner, the many causes which are believed to produce this speech defect, together with past and present methods of treatment. Various types of stammering are discussed and help suitable to each age group is s...

In this paper we describe Erlangen-CLP, a large speech database of children with Cleft Lip and Palate. More than 800 German children with CLP (most of them between 4 and 18 years old) and 380 age matched control speakers spoke the semi-standardized PLAKSS test that consists of words with all German phonemes in different positions. So far 250 CLP speakers were manually transcribed, 120 of these ...

Parent counselling and parental education for families with disabled children. Generally, counseling is meant to develop parents’ potential apply methods in a personalized fashion order foster the social adaptation of children disabilities as well their school adaptation. For instance, part counselling, speech-therapist attentive elaborate propose on interactive guidance intervention techniques...