ABSTRACT A lack of access to learning opportunities is among the main reasons for social
exclusion of people with cognitive disabilities in the professional field. It has been …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for young children are needed due to the
importance of age-appropriate educational technology. Because of the lack of publicly …

Effective child automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have become increasingly
important due to the growing use of interactive technology. Due to the lack of publicly …

Digital technologies, with the forerunner of artificial intelligence (AI), affect many aspects of
modern society. With the integration of AI, the education sector has offered innovative …

Purpose: The differential diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual
children represents a unique challenge due to their distributed language exposure and …

This paper presents the results of a pilot study that introduces social robots into kindergarten
and first-grade classroom tasks. This study aims to understand 1) how effective social robots …

Disfluencies are prevalent in spontaneous speech, as shown in many studies of adult
speech. Less is understood about children's speech, especially in pre-school children who …

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A preliminary implementation of a robotic interface for the administration of language,
literacy, and speech pathology assessments for children is presented. This robot …

Cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) deeply affect modern society. AI
can be considered as the ability of a computer to learn from past experiences while …