<p style="text-align: justify;">The study of the features cognitive impairments in various cerebral organic pathologies allows us to understand role individual structures brain implementation mental activity and determine appropriate ways providing psychological assistance patients. In a situation rare pathology, analysis clinical cases is useful. The aim this research was state functions...

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Children with language impairments demonstrate a broad range of semantic difficulties, including problems with new word acquisition, storage and organization of known words, and lexical access/ retrieval. Unfortunately, assessments of children's semantic skills are often limited to measures of receptive and expressive vocabulary size. As a result, the semantic deficits of these children may not...

cognitive impairments describe a state of diminished or impaired mental and/or intellectual function such as alzheimer's disease, huntington's disease and parkinson's disease. as these disorders are more frequent in the elderly and due to the ageing of population, serious attention must be paid to these diseases. exercise has shown to have preventive and therapeutic effects on co...

Objectives: Alternative and Augmentative communication ( AAC ) provides a means of effective communication to persons with severe impairments in speech comprehension and production. The aim of this study was to examine the awareness of Iranian speech-language pathologists (SLPs) of AAC services. Methods:  A total of 111 SLPs who were selected by convenience sampling took part in this cross-sec...

The role of Trisomy 21 in causing specific speech and language development is discussed by Paoloni-Giacobino and colleagues in a recent report of the development of a 14 year old girl with mosaic Down syndrome. Trisomic cells are reported as being from 0.7% – 12% in different cell lines. This young girl is reported to have moderately delayed articulation and phonology and reduced fluency in her...

About 90% of the people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) develop speech impairments such as monopitch, monoloudness, imprecise articulation, and other symptoms. There are several studies addressing the problem of the automatic detection of PD from speech signals in order to develop computer aided tools for the assessment and monitoring of the patients. Recent works have shown that it is possible t...

The E-model brings a modern approach to the computation of estimated quality, allowing for easy implementation. One of its advantages is that it can be applied in real time. The method is based on a mathematical computation model evaluating transmission path impairments influencing speech signal, especially delays and packet losses. These parameters, common in an IP network, can affect speech q...