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Speech and language technology for language disorders / Katharine Beals, Deborah Dahl, Ruth Fink, Marcia Linebarger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Speech technology and text mining in medicine and healthcare ; v. 3.Publisher: Boston : Walter de Gruyter Inc., [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 214 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781614516453
  • 1614516456
  • 9781614519256
  • 1614519250
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Speech and language technology for language disorders.DDC classification:
  • 616.85/506 23
LOC classification:
  • RC423 .B43 2016eb
NLM classification:
  • WL 340.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of speech and language technologies -- 2. Overview of developmental language disorders -- 3. Technology for assessment and remediation of developmental language disorders -- 4. Technology for task assessment, classroom accommodation, and communicative assistance of developmental language disorders -- 5. Conclusions and caveats about developmental language technology -- 6. Overview of acquired aphasia and disorders of word retrieval -- 7. Software for aphasia: computer-assisted treatment of word retrieval deficits in aphasia -- 8. Software for aphasia: MossTalk Words� (MTW) -- 9. Speech technology for aphasic sentence production disorders -- 10. Evaluating speech and language applications for language disorders -- 11. Conclusions -- Authors' biographies -- Index.
Summary: This book draws on the remarkable advances in speech and language processing taking us beyond basic medical dictation and telephone self-service, areas commonly associated with speech technology, to address a wide range of complex speech and language disorders ranging from autism to aphasia.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of speech and language technologies -- 2. Overview of developmental language disorders -- 3. Technology for assessment and remediation of developmental language disorders -- 4. Technology for task assessment, classroom accommodation, and communicative assistance of developmental language disorders -- 5. Conclusions and caveats about developmental language technology -- 6. Overview of acquired aphasia and disorders of word retrieval -- 7. Software for aphasia: computer-assisted treatment of word retrieval deficits in aphasia -- 8. Software for aphasia: MossTalk Words� (MTW) -- 9. Speech technology for aphasic sentence production disorders -- 10. Evaluating speech and language applications for language disorders -- 11. Conclusions -- Authors' biographies -- Index.

This book draws on the remarkable advances in speech and language processing taking us beyond basic medical dictation and telephone self-service, areas commonly associated with speech technology, to address a wide range of complex speech and language disorders ranging from autism to aphasia.

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