Digital speech therapy for the aphasia patients: challenges, opportunities and solutions

OA Egaji, I Asghar, M Griffiths, W Warren - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper outlines the potential challenges of adopting digital solutions for treating patients
with aphasia. Current research has focused on the use of non-immersive Virtual Reality (VR) …

Integrating face-to-face language therapy with virtual reality applications for persons with aphasia

J Stark, C Pons, C Dániel - 2013 International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Under optimal conditions, providing language therapy to persons with aphasia (PWA) is an
intensive and dynamic process which results in improved verbal communication and greater …

Conversational Therapy through Semi‐Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Language Recovery and Psychological Well‐Being in Post Stroke Aphasia

A Giachero, M Calati, L Pia, L La Vista… - Behavioural …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aphasia is a highly disabling acquired language disorder generally caused by a left‐
lateralized brain damage. Even if traditional therapies have been shown to induce an …

[HTML][HTML] A mobile-based virtual reality speech rehabilitation app for patients with aphasia after stroke: development and pilot usability study

X Bu, PHF Ng, Y Tong, PQ Chen, R Fan… - JMIR Serious …, 2022 - games.jmir.org
Background: Stroke has the highest disability-adjusted life-years lost in any disease, and
approximately one-third of the patients get aphasia. Computers and tablets are innovative …

Delivering script therapy for people with aphasia in EVA park: Two single case treatment studies

J Marshall, N Devane, J Berraondo… - Advances in …, 2023 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: There are few applications of virtual reality (VR) in aphasia rehabilitation.
EVA Park is an online VR platform developed with and for people with aphasia. Our …

[PDF][PDF] An on-line system for remote treatment of aphasia

A Pompili, A Abad, I Trancoso, J Fonseca… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
Aphasia treatment for the recovery of lost communication functionalities is possible through
frequent and intense speech therapy sessions. In this sense, speech and language …

Clinical research on therapeutic effect of virtual reality technology on Broca Aphasia patients

Y Zhang, P Chen, X Li, G Wan, C Xie… - 2017 2nd International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: To explore the therapeutic effect of virtual reality technology on speech function of
Broca Aphasia patients after stroke. Method: Eighteen patients with stroke were enrolled in …

Virtual clinicians for the treatment of aphasia and speech disorders

G Teodoro, N Martin, E Keshner, JY Shi… - … Conference on Virtual …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that affects the ability to speak and
understand spoken language. The purpose of this project is to create a virtual clinician to …

Evaluating the benefits of aphasia intervention delivered in virtual reality: results of a quasi-randomised study

J Marshall, T Booth, N Devane, J Galliers… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Introduction This study evaluated an intervention for people with aphasia delivered in a
novel virtual reality platform called EVA Park. EVA Park contains a number of functional and …

The use of virtual reality in the rehabilitation of aphasia: a systematic review

N Devane, N Behn, J Marshall… - Disability and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose This systematic review explored how virtual reality (VR) has been used to
rehabilitate aphasia. Materials and methods Empirical studies were included where VR was …