The prevalence of disordered communication is particularly high in individuals diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson disease (IPD). At least 89% of these individuals have disordered speech and voice but only 3-4% received speech treatment. LSVT (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment) is a speech and voice treatment for individuals with Parkinson disease. It is the only speech treatment with Level one sho...

This paper focuses on the problem of automatically assessing the speech intelligibility of patients with dysarthria, which is a motor speech disorder. To effectively capture the characteristics of the speech disorder, various features are extracted in three speech dimensions: phonetic quality, prosody, and voice quality. Then, we find the best feature set satisfying a new feature selection crit...

Paper describes a proposed teletherapy architecture for speech/language therapy, discusses the current state of the architecture, and describes future efforts in development and evaluation. Virtual CosmoBot is a motivating, computer-based character designed to enhance children’s communication skills and stimulate verbal interaction during the remediation of speech and language disorders via tel...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the myofunctional status in children submitted to adenoidectomy or adenotonsillectomy, correlating the pre and post-surgical patterns throughout a 24-month-period. To correlate the myofunctional alterations to the sort of surgery performed (adenoidectomy versus adenotonsillectomy) and to the predominant post-surgical breathing pattern (predominantly nasal versus allergic ...

Rehabilitation is one of the medical services for achieving good health, prevention disease, andtreatment even though palliative care. This service helps people from infants until older to be ablein activities and participation independently involving not only patients but also family, caregiver,rehabilitation team (physiotherapist, speech therapist, occupational orthopedist prosthetist,social ...