Objective This study aims to evaluate the awareness level of the individuals with hearing and speech impairments (deaf and dumb individuals), in relation to their oral health and dental treatment needs. Materials and Methods The approach of stratified randomization method of sampling was used for the selection of participants. About 240 people with hearing and speech impairments (deaf and dum...

Introduction: In this paper we report on clinical linguistic applications of several versions of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) and the Persian Aphasia Battery (PAB) developed to assess patterns of recovery and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual aphasics with different clinical histories living in Iran. Methods: The participants are adult monolingual native speakers of Persian ...

introduction: in this paper we report on clinical linguistic applications of several versions of the bilingual aphasia test (bat) and the persian aphasia battery (pab) developed to assess patterns of recovery and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual aphasics with different clinical histories living in iran. methods: the participants are adult monolingual native speakers of persian ...

Computer users with motor impairments find it difficult and, in many cases, impossible to access PC functionality through the physical keyboard-and-mouse interface. Studies show that even able-bodied users experience similar difficulties when interacting with mobile devices; this is due to the reduced size/usability of the input interfaces. Advances in speech recognition have made it possible t...

BACKGROUND Even minor abnormalities of early child development may have dramatic long term consequences. Accurate prevalence rates for a range of developmental impairments have been difficult to establish. Since related studies have used different methodological approaches, direct comparisons of the prevalence of developmental delays are difficult. The understanding of the key factors affecting...

Word prediction is a method for enhancing the communication ability of persons with speech and language impairments. In this work, we explore one method of adjusting the language model based on the content of a conversation.

Few studies have examined connected speech in demented and non-demented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). We assessed the speech production of 35 patients with Lewy body spectrum disorder (LBSD), including non-demented PD patients, patients with PD dementia (PDD), and patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), in a semi-structured narrative speech sample in order to characterize impai...

In the case of paralysis with visual and tactile impairments, brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) based on auditory mental imagery paradigms are alternative methods for controlling external devices. This study demonstrates use a hybrid BCI via stimulation speech imagination assistive technology. The proposed using Thai vowel numeral stimulus patterns as well multi-loudspeaker position settings mul...

The recently proposed Parkinson's Disease (PD) telediagnosis systems based on detecting dysphonia achieve very high classification rates in discriminating healthy subjects from PD patients. However, in these studies the data used to construct the classification model contain the speech recordings of both early and late PD patients with different severities of speech impairments resulting in unr...