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Filter by:The general objectives of this study are to build a proof-of-concept, speech-based, digital biomarker for identifying the presence and tracking the severity of psychiatric disease.
The aim of this work is to assess language development in cochlear implanted children in Assiut university hospital and to assess the impact of some related factors (age of implantation, family motivation and education, age of hearing loss and the pre-implanted language therapy or pre-implanted hearing aid wearing) on this development. Adoption of newborn hearing screening programs across the nations has resulted in early identification and confirmation of hearing losses in youngest and vulnerable populations. Early identification often results in early intervention using hearing technology assistance via hearing aids or cochlear implants, parental education programs, and speech-language therapy The major goal of intervention is to capitalize on providing sensory, motor, and interactive exchanges at the earliest stages of communication development as a means of reducing the deleterious effects of auditory deprivation
Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines, using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It may also involve vocal imitation of turntablism, and other musical instruments. To produces the different sounds, the Beatboxers use their vocal apparatus in a much wider and more complex way than its use in speech. This allows them to acquire a panel of rich and varied sounds. The Human Beatbox (HBB) is a very recent subject of study in phonetics. This study offers an exploratory study of pharyngolaryngeal articulatory behaviors using nasofibroscopy and electroglottography and an aerodynamic study in order to better understand the articulatory capacities and limits of the vocal tract.
The overarching goal of the proposed research is to understand how human listeners learn speech categories. The project takes a prospective approach with adult second-language learners, blending empirical, methodological and theoretical advances from laboratory studies with explicit classroom instruction. The central hypothesis is that incidentally-acquired nonlinguistic perceptual building block categories may support speech perception and production in a second language. The project will advance important theoretical debates about the cross-talk between general auditory representations and speech categories and will provide a novel approach to nudging adult learners off learning plateau typically encountered in classroom instruction.
At present, functional imaging studies have suggested that the Geschwind's territory (the inferior parietal lobe) is an important language area. It is the hub for semantics and phonetic language processing. However, the type and mechanism of aphasia after injury of Geschwind's territory and the subsequent recovery of language are still unclear. In our study based on brain injury model of brain arteriovenous malformation (BAVMs) resection, investigators found that the incidence of aphasia was higher after the injury of Geschwind's territory than after injury of the classical language area, and the type of aphasia was complicated, while the recovery rate of language disorder was high during follow-up. Investigators hypothesized that the type of aphasia may be associated with the type of brain connectivity damaged, and that reorganization of brain connections and brain network promote the recovery of language function. In this study, we aim to investigate the types of aphasia and their corresponding brain network changes after the resection of BAVMs located in the Geschwind's territory. Investigators will evaluate language function and collect multimodality images of the patients before resection of the lesions, as well as 7 days, 3 months and 6 months afterwards. In addition, the anatomical brain connectivity and brain network will also be analyzed. Our research will not only be a meaningful exploration for mechanisms of human language function damage and reorganization, but will also provide an important basis for the protection of brain function in neurosurgery.
This research is using a Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) approach to design, implement, and evaluate English as a Second Language health literacy classes for Hispanic adults to reduce lead exposure.
The purpose of this study is to determine if non-invasive distracting devices (Virtual Reality headset) are more effective than the standard of care (i.e., no technology based distraction) for preventing anxiety in parental and pediatric populations with limited English proficiency (LEP).
One initiative to address communication problems between migrant women not fluent in Swedish and caregivers throughout childbirth is to provide language assistance, cultural interpretation and labour support to the woman through Community Based Doulas (CBDs). CBDs are bilingual women from migrant communities trained by midwives to provide cultural, language and labour support to migrant women throughout their labour and birth. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of community-based doula support for improving the intrapartum care experiences and postnatal wellbeing of Somali-, Tigrinya -, Arabic- and Russian-speaking migrant women giving birth in Stockholm, Sweden. The randomisation ratio will be 1:1; CBD support in addition to standard intrapartum care or standard intrapartum care. Women allocated to receive CBD support in addition to standard intrapartum care (intervention group), will be contacted by a Somali, Arabic-, Russian- or Tigrinya-speaking CBD as appropriate, and arrangements will be made for the doula and the women to meet twice prior to the birth to get to know each other and discuss the woman's wishes regarding support in labour and what the CBD can offer. Each woman will then contact her CBD when she goes into labour and the CBD will attend hospital with her and stay with her throughout labour and birth, in addition to any other support people she may have, such as her partner. Women allocated to the comparison arm of the trial will receive standard intrapartum care as provided at their chosen hospital of birth. The hypothesis is that women randomised to receive CBD support in labour will rate their care for labour and birth more highly and have better emotional wellbeing (lower mean scores on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) two months after birth than women allocated to standard care.
Early stroke rehabilitation is known to be an effective and essential therapy in gaining functional independence and preventing complications. However, there was no consensus of proper amount of language rehabilitation in stroke patients. In this study, the investigators investigated the effects of the intensive language rehabilitation during subacute phase to improve language function in patients with first-ever strokes.
Prior to the completion of biomedical research, any person undergoing it must receive a readable and intelligible information about this research, in order to give free and informed consent. The willingness to inform patients of all risks and constraints related to research may be in contradiction with the need to write informative and concise documents that are understandable to research participants. As a result, consent forms are long, contain a lot of information and are complicated to understand. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the readability of the information and consent forms on the understanding of the information received by participants in clinical trials.