The goal of the present study was to examine the precursors of verbal working memory in 52 children with cerebral palsy with varying degrees of speech impairments in the first grade of special education. Following Baddeley's model of working memory, children's verbal working memory was measured by means of a forced-recognition task. As precursors of verbal working memory, measures of intelligen...

Developmental language learning impairments affect 10 to 20% of children and increase their risk of later literacy problems (dyslexia) and psychiatric disorders. Both oraland written-language impairments have been linked to slow neural processing, which is hypothesized to interfere with the perception of speech sounds that are characterized by rapid acoustic changes. Research into the etiology ...

Introduction Respecting and safeguarding individuals, especially those deemed ‘vulnerable’, is essential to research ethics and integrity (Daley, 2015), yet there have long been concerns about the lack of involvement of people with disabilities, and the subsequent silencing of their voices, in social science work (Barnes, 1996; Nind & Searle, 2009; Nind, 2011). Such concerns centre in particula...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a tough task, with the existence of related noise and high unpredictability in speech presenting most severe problems. Especially regard to impairments, whether due disability or mispronunciation children. Extraction noise-resistant features compensate for degradation impact has remained difficult challenge last few years. This research investigated differe...

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems provide fundamental reading support for people with aphasia and difficulties. However, artificial voices are more difficult to process than natural voices. The current study is an extended analysis of the results a clinical experiment investigating which, among three digitised human voice, suitable impairments. Such show that voice synthesised Ogmios TTS, concatenat...

Children with reading impairments have long been associated with impaired perception for rapidly presented acoustic stimuli and recently have shown deficits for slower features. It is not known whether impairments for low-frequency acoustic features negatively impact processing of speech in reading-impaired individuals. Here we provide neurophysiological evidence that poor readers have impaired...

This study investigates the portrayal of autistic character in Atypical film seasons one and two through verbal non-verbal pragmatic language impairment analysis. The qualitative method theory mind by Attwood Stemmer Whitaker were employed research. found that made 320 impairments, including languages. For impairment, literal interpretations violation maxims frequently found, where repetitions ...

In utero RNAi of the dyslexia-associated gene Kiaa0319 in rats (KIA-) degrades cortical responses to speech sounds and increases trial-by-trial variability in onset latency. We tested the hypothesis that KIA- rats would be impaired at speech sound discrimination. KIA- rats needed twice as much training in quiet conditions to perform at control levels and remained impaired at several speech task...