Background: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has primarily been utilised
for motor speech deficits or as an aid for communicating basic needs in the acute stages of …

The purpose of this chapter is to integrate and synthesize, using a meta-analytic approach,
the research literature on the effectiveness of augmentative and alternative communication …

Purpose Spontaneous speech tasks are critically important for characterizing spoken
language production deficits in aphasia and for assessing the impact of therapy. The utility of …

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia in which early diagnosis plays a
major rule in the quality of treatment. Among new works in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's …

Speech-based automatic approaches for evaluating neurological disorders (NDs) depend
on feature extraction before the classification pipeline. It is preferable for these features to be …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to present the results of a study evaluating the
psychometric properties of 2 new measures that exclusively assess the amount of real-world …

Within the field of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, facing impaired speech is
a big challenge because standard approaches are ineffective in the presence of dysarthria …

Automatic techniques in the context of motor speech disorders (MSDs) are typically two-
class techniques aiming to discriminate between dysarthria and neurotypical speech or …

A frequent neurological condition known as aphasia is brought on by injury to language-
related brain regions as well as possibly other regions of the brain involved in executive …

This article examines the challenges of developing electronic communication aids for
individuals with mild-tomoderate aphasia and introduces a new portable aid designed for …