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Results of a National Survey on Accessibility of Medical Instrumentation for Consumers
Published in Jack M. Winters, Molly Follette Story, Medical Instrumentation, 2006
Jill M. Winters, Molly Follette Story, Kris Barnekow, June Isaacson Kailes, Brenda Premo, Erin Schwier, Sarma Danturthi, Jack M. Winters
Speech and language impairments refer to one or more disorders affecting voice, articulation, rhythm, and the receptive and expressive processes of language. These impairments limit the quality, accuracy, intelligibility, or fluency of producing the sounds that result in spoken language. The terms speech and language impairments do not apply to individuals who speak with a foreign accent or to limitations resulting from a physical or hearing impairment, psychological disability, or an acquired brain impairment. Stuttering, a common speech impairment, affects more than three million Americans [18]. Other speech impairments with relatively high prevalence rates include articulation or phonological disorders, with prevalence rates ranging from 8 to 9% [18].
Two-sided perspective on tele-speech therapy: Experiences of stuttering patients, and their parents
Published in Assistive Technology, 2022
Maryam Eslami Jahromi, Jamileh Farokhzadian, Leila Ahmadian
Tele-rehabilitation is the delivery of rehabilitation services to patients remotely using tele-communication technologies (Schmeler et al., 2009). Rehabilitation includes various services such as speech therapy (Brennan & Barker, 2008) to treat stuttering disorder. This disorder can have a negative effect on the patient’s daily life (Craig et al., 2009). The prevalence of stuttering is approximately one percent (Yairi & Ambrose, 2013). Increased demand for treatment and shortage of service providers are challenges in providing tele-rehabilitation services (Brennan & Barker, 2008). In this regard, video conferencing can overcome the barriers to access remote healthcare services and provide faster access to therapy interventions (Ciccia et al., 2011). To overcome the barriers of distance and amplify the availability of speech-language pathology, Mohan et al. also suggested that the use of the tele-practice in delivering the services can be helpful (Mohan et al., 2017).
Evaluating adaptation effect in real versus virtual reality environments with people who stutter
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2022
Stuttering is a speech disorder and is characterized by interruptions in forward flow of speech. The interruptions operationally can be described as monosyllabic whole-word repetitions, part-word repetitions, audible sound prolongations, or silent fixations/blockages [1]. This description may give a broader perspective on the dysfluencies seen in persons who stutter (PWS). In most of the descriptions and explanations on stuttering only the dysfluencies, this may underestimate the problem [2]. In addition to these features, anxiety may be seen in PWS. The anxiety in speech is found to be related to perceived negative evaluation from others, negative self- evaluation, and biased processing of information [3].