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Design and Implementation of a Haptic-Based Robotic System with Virtual Assistance for Children with Disabilities
DownloadSpring 2017
BACKGROUND: Limited opportunities for haptic manipulation and motor experience in children with disabilities is linked to developmental delays including cognitive, perceptual, and social impairments. Assistive robots (e.g. Lego robots) have been used as alternative means to remotely act on the...
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Intelligibility of foreign-accented words: Acoustic distances and gradient foreign accentedness
Download2015-04-29
Porretta, Vincent, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Intelligibility and degree of accentedness are interrelated aspects of non-native speech. Previous research suggests that foreign accentedness is influenced by phonetic distance measures [7]. These distance measures may also influence the intelligibility of individual words. In the present study...
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Spring 2012
An increasing number of realists about science believe that what science really tells us about are the world's structural features. For these realists, then, we should restrict our realist commitments: the theoretical objects described by science are not the kinds of entities towards which we...
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Voice and Speech Outcomes Following Intensive Voice and Motor Speech Treatment Delivered Sequentially to Children with Motor Speech Disorders Secondary to Cerebral Palsy
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Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the treatment outcomes in children with a mixed diagnoses of dysarthria and childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), secondary to Cerebral Palsy (CP) after the completion of LSVT®LOUD followed by a six-week motor speech treatment. Method:...
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Fall 2015
Although speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have access to a wealth of information to guide the selection and prioritization of targets for intervention with children who have speech sound disorders (SSDs), empirical evidence needed to support such decisions is lacking. The role of vowels is...