Communication disorders occur across all age groups of people and often show first signs of appearing in children. These can range from problems in comprehension of speech to expression of speech to the point that it interferes with an individuals achievement and/or quality of life. Communication disorders can compromise a persons psychological, sociological, educational and vocational growth. ...

Computer-based visual speech training has become widely used both within medical and pedagogical rehabilitation in Sweden. When learning speech motor ability clear instruction is of great importance in order for the learner to realise what is deviant and what is correct in his or her pattern of behaviour. The correct behaviour should then be established and automated through extensive training ...

Abstract In The Netherlands, a web application for speech training, E-learning-based speech therapy (EST), has been developed for patients with dysarthria, a speech disorder resulting from acquired neurological impairments such as stroke or Parkinson's disease. In this report, the EST infrastructure and its potentials for both therapists and patients are elucidated. EST provides patients with d...

BACKGROUND The soft palate functions as a valve and helps generate the oral pressure required for normal speech resonance. Speech problems and nasal regurgitation can result from a soft palatal defect. Reduction of the size of the velopharyngeal orifice is required to compensate for the lack of mobility in a reconstructed soft palate. We suggest a large volume folded free flap for reduction of ...

Objective assessment techniques for classifying voice quality for patients recovering from treatment for cancer of the larynx should lead to more effective recovery than the present approach, which is very subjective and depends heavily on the experience of the individual Speech and Language Therapist (SALT). This work follows an earlier study where an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was traine...

Disruptions in FOXP2, a transcription factor, are the only known monogenic cause of speech and language impairment. We report on clinical findings for two new individuals with a submicroscopic deletion of FOXP2: a boy with severe apraxia of speech and his currently moderately affected mother. A 1.57 Mb deletion on chromosome 7q31 was detected by array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). I...

The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether a group of university students would report role entrapment of people who stutter (PWS) in the form of occupational stereotyping. The study also examined whether severity of stuttering (mild or severe) and level of therapy involvement (choosing or not choosing to attend therapy) affected the perceptions of role entrapment. To examine thes...

Patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) can have alterations in bone metabolism and skeletal growth, as well as damage to the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which can generate extra and/or intraoral alterations, resulting in craniofacial disorders. Our goal is to carry out a review of the literature on orofacial alterations in patients with JIA. Among the orofacial disorders in patien...

BACKGROUND the communication of children with Down syndrome (DS) is frequently impaired due to difficulties in the phonological, syntactic and semantic aspects of language. In order to compensate these difficulties, many children use gestures for a longer period of time than children who present typical development (TD). AIM to verify the performance of children with DS regarding their commun...