BACKGROUND Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) is commonly used to improve ventilation and oxygenation and avoid endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. Although clinically indicated, most patients fail to use NPPV due to mask intolerance. A total face mask was designed to increase compliance, but whether this translates into better outcome (improvement in clinical and ...

objectives: this paper studies the effect of persian cued speech on the perception of persian language phonemes and monosyllabic words with and without sound in hearing impaired children. cued speech is a sound based mode of communication for hearing impaired people that is comprised of a limited series of hand complements and the normal pattern of speech. and it is shown that it effectively ca...

conclusions prevalence of speech and language delay is high (27%) in children less than three years of age attending the under-five clinic for at-risk children. negative home environment and family history of speech and language disorders are significant risk factors for speech and language delay. the strong association of speech delay with delay in tdsc reemphasizes the need for a complete dev...

background:  speech is the most important aspect of development that related to central nervous system maturation in cognitive sensory motor domain. disorders of speech may disrupt other aspects of development. the study aimed to investigate the prevalence of speech disorders among primary schoolchildren in kermanshah during 2008-9. methods: six hundred schoolchildren from three educational reg...

Accurate gender classification is useful in speech and speaker recognition as well as speech emotion classification, because a better performance has been reported when separate acoustic models are employed for males and females. Gender classification is also apparent in face recognition, video summarization, human-robot interaction, etc. Although gender classification is rather mature in a...

 Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to determine the auditory performance of congenitally deaf children and the effect of cochlear implantation (CI) on speech intelligibility. Methods: Aprospective study was undertaken on 47 children in a pediatric tertiary referral center for CI. All children were deaf prelingually and were younger than 8 years of age. They were followed up until 5...