this paper is a short review on the jann and content of speech and language rehabilitation services and the trend of their institutionalization in iran. a summary of formal education in speech and language therapy in iran as originated by establishing a 4 year bs rehabilitation program in the college of rehabilitation sciences in tehran in 1974 is given. since then, speech and language rehabili...

We show the soundness of automated con­ trol of machine vision systems based on in­ cremental creation and evaluation of a par­ ticular family of influence diagrams that rep­ resent hypotheses of imagery interpretation and possible subsequent processing decisions. In our approach, model-based machine vi­ sion techniques are integrated with hierarchi­ cal Bayesian inference to provide a framewor...

the main goal of early detection of hearing impairment in children is early intervention. there is growing interest in early detection of hearing impairment in developing countries. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the spoken language development in severe to profound hearing impaired children and compared their speech intelligibility with normal hearing children at the same ag...

speech sciences deal with the acoustical characteristics of speech by means of sophisticated soft wares as well as hard wares. although, a speech science is a well known science in the developed countries, especially the western societies, however, it has been remained almost unknown in iran, though, in recent years a group of scholars have been involved in this branch of science. the applicati...

Speech is one of the most opulent and instant methods to express emotional characteristics of human beings, which conveys the cognitive and semantic concepts among humans. In this study, a statistical-based method for emotional recognition of speech signals is proposed, and a learning approach is introduced, which is based on the statistical model to classify internal feelings of the utterance....

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...