The article considers and analyzes the problem of using digital technologies in preparation specialists socionomic specialties to work an inclusive educational environment. essences education, regulatory framework education Ukraine, socio-pedagogical correctional with children special needs are revealed. role a social pedagogue, speech pathologist, therapist working is determined. possibilities...

UNLABELLED The changes in mastication and deglutition in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy need to be better characterized. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of parent-reported myofunctional changes and to determine if there are differences in the alteration patterns of children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy and subjects with adenoid hypertrophy. METHOD Questionnaire and assessme...

The objective of the present study was to determine the oral motor capacity and the feeding performance of preterm newborn infants when they were permitted to start oral feeding. This was an observational and prospective study conducted on 43 preterm newborns admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of UFSM, RS, Brazil. Exclusion criteria were the presence of head and neck malformations, ge...

Scaling up psychotherapy services such as for addiction counseling is a critical societal need. One challenge is ensuring quality of therapy, due to the heavy cost of manual observational assessment. This work proposes a speech technology-based system to automate the assessment of therapist empathy-a key therapy quality index-from audio recordings of the psychotherapy interactions. We designed ...

This article analyses a seemingly mundane feature of mental health centre for immigrants and refugees in Paris: the documents used by budding therapists undertaking their apprenticeships. Supervisors developed these order to train therapist apprentices learn explanatory models patients, identify voice incorporate medical anthropology into therapeutic practice. The were central experiences becau...

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the profile of patients treated by Speech-Language therapists in a Critical Patient Unit. Methods: an ex post facto, observational and descriptive study was carried out. Monthly statistical data hospitalized period January-December 2018 were analyzed, Intensive Care Unit at public hospital. Data described from analysis frequency measures central tendency. The dis...

Loss of voice after total laryngectomy often prevents patients from reintegrating into society. This fact can also cause to be hesitant undergo surgery. Therefore, the early introduction alternative is essential for relieving anxiety and enhancing rehabilitation these patients. To achieve this, we introduced following methods: interprofessional work (IPW) between doctors, nurses, speech therapi...

VITHEA is an on-line platform designed to act as a “virtual therapist” for the treatment of Portuguese speaking aphasic patients. Concretely, the system integrates automatic speech recognition technology to provide word naming exercises to individuals with lost or reduced word naming ability. In this paper, we present the solution adopted for the word naming task, which is based on a keyword sp...