Four groups of subjects, speech-language-hearing impaired clients, parents of clients, speech-language pathology students, and the general public, reacted to 28 words used to label individuals. Twelve words were either person-first (e.g., “Stutterer”) or direct labels (e.g., “Person who stutters”) and 16 were identical anchor labels in alternate forms of questionnaires. Nine labels identified s...

ast year, I wrote about the need for a theory of clinical expertise in speech-language pathology (Kamhi, 1994). In the changing health care market. considerable energies are einemg expended now on ways to measure and document the efficacy of our treatment methods. Much has been written concerning the particular knowledge, technical skills, interpersonal skills, and attitudes that contribute to ...

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

Speech synthesis has changed dramatically in the past few years to have a corpus-based focus, borrowing heavily from advances in automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we survey technology in speech recognition systems and how it translates (or doesn’t translate) to speech synthesis systems. We further speculate on future areas where ASR may impact synthesis and vice versa.

This report represents a collection of papers published in various conference proceedings that are not readily available for researchers working in the field of speech recognition. The papers reprinted are: 1. Reddy — Speech Input Terminals (June 1970). 2. Reddy, Erman, and Neely — The CMU Speech Recognition Project (October 1970). 3. Erman and Reddy — Telephone Speech (August 1971). 4. Neely a...

Purpose: To understand the factors that predict the likelihood graduate students in speech-language pathology will report maltreatment in order to assist in minimizing its occurrence and child mortality. Method: Graduate students in speech-language pathologists (N=148) attending accredited programs in the United States were surveyed regarding their attitudes (e.g., commitment, confidence, and c...

introduction: speech intelligibility, the ability to be understood verbally by listeners, is the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of cochlear implantation. thus, the goal of this study was to compare the speech intelligibility between normal-hearing and cochlear-implanted children using the persian intelligibility test.   materials and methods: twenty-six cochlear-implanted childre...

In order to document perceptions of text comments appearing in surgical pathology reports, questionnaires were distributed to 4 groups of caregivers: university staff pathologists, resident pathologists, faculty clinicians (other than pathologists), and resident clinicians at a teaching hospital. Results of this pilot study showed a wide degree of variability existed within each group of surgic...

In order to document perceptions of text comments appearing in surgical pathology reports, questionnaires were distributed to 4 groups of caregivers: university staff pathologists, resident pathologists, faculty clinicians (other than pathologists), and resident clinicians at a teaching hospital. Results of this pilot study showed a wide degree of variability existed within each group of surgic...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the effectiveness of the referral and counter-referral flow in a speech-language pathology and audiology clinic-school and to characterize the patients' profiles. METHODS Evaluation, retrospective, and prospective study, in which 503 patient records, without age restriction, were selected from a clinic-school and the following variables were analyzed: demographic informat...