8 research outputs found
Internet-of-Things Devices in Support of the Development of Echoic Skills Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A significant therapeutic challenge for people with disabilities is the development of verbal and echoic skills. Digital voice assistants (DVAs), such as Amazon鈥檚 Alexa, provide networked intelligence to billions of Internet-of-Things devices and have the potential to offer opportunities to people, such as those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), to advance these necessary skills. Voice interfaces can enable children with ASD to practice such skills at home; however, it remains unclear whether DVAs can be as proficient as therapists in recognizing utterances by a developing speaker. We developed an Alexa-based skill called ASPECT to measure how well the DVA identified verbalization by autistic children. The participants, nine children diagnosed with ASD, each participated in 30 sessions focused on increasing vocalizations and echoic responses. Children interacted with ASPECT prompted by instructions from an Echo device. ASPECT was trained to recognize utterances and evaluate them as a therapist would鈥攕imultaneously, a therapist scored the child鈥檚 responses. The study identified no significant difference between how ASPECT and the therapists scored participants; this conclusion held even when subsetting participants by a pre-treatment echoic skill assessment score. This indicates considerable potential for providing a continuum of therapeutic opportunities and reinforcement outside of clinical settings
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A Question Of Language Disorder: Studies Of Assessment, Management And Parent Attitude.
Children labelled "language disordered" failed to make academic progress in schools promoting investigations into the nature of their problems, attendant attitudes and contextual influences. Studies find differences in haptic, auditory and visual processing between normal and language disordered children. Individual management does not acknowledge this range of modality input problems and selectively targets language form for systematic development. The approach does not result in better school attainments. Perhaps the label "language disorder" limits perception of the extent of difficulties in other areas. In contrast, an interactive method is described, taking account of "inside" and "outside" the child factors. Educational success is produced by inter-relating the language system with the learning context. Full implementation of the interactive model seems unlikely given the present styles of professional training and existing institutional constraints. However, consumer dissatisfaction with current language Learning provision suggests this procedure offers a promising alternative
General Course Catalog [2022/23 academic year]
General Course Catalog, 2022/23 academic yearhttps://repository.stcloudstate.edu/undergencat/1134/thumbnail.jp
Catalog | 2022-2023
(2022-2023). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_bul_bulletin/1221/thumbnail.jp
Catalog | 2021-2022
(2021-2022). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_bul_bulletin/1220/thumbnail.jp
Catalog | 2020-2021
(2020-2021). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_bul_bulletin/1219/thumbnail.jp
Acquisition des formes pronominales "il" et "elle" : efficacit茅 d'une approche pragmatique
Th猫se num茅ris茅e par la Direction des biblioth猫ques de l'Universit茅 de Montr茅al
Acceso l茅xico en la lectura de personas con par谩lisis cerebral usuarias de comunicaci贸n aumentativa y alternativa
[Resumen] La ortograf铆a como sistema de comunicaci贸n aumentativa y/o alternativa
(CAA) constituye un medio privilegiado para una comunicaci贸n sin restricciones.
Sin embargo, esta no es una opci贸n generalizada entre las personas con
par谩lisis cerebral sin habla porque presentan enormes dificultades en la
adquisic贸n de la lectura y la escritura. En este sentido, esta investigaci贸n
se realiz贸 con el objetivo de conocer como la capacidad comunicativo-ling眉铆stica
y la capacidad de memoria operativa influyen en la resoluci贸n de tareas
de conciencia fonol贸gica, de acceso l茅xico en la lectura y en la escritura.
Para ello, se reclut贸 una muestra formada por 16 personas con par谩lisis
cerebral sin habla usuarias de sistemas de CAA. Los resultados indican
que la capacidad comunicativo-ling眉铆stica es la variable de mayor relevancia
en la lectura y en la escritura, que la capacidad de memoria operativa
influye en la escritura y que la interacci贸n de ambos factores influye
en la recodificaci贸n fonol贸gica en el deletreo; sin embargo, ninguno de
los anteriores factores influye en la conciencia fonol贸gica. Se derivan
importantes implicaciones educativas que tienen que ver con los materiales
de evaluaci贸n y de intervenci贸n, as铆 como con las actuaciones en el aula
y fuera de ella para comunciarse con las personas con par谩lisis cerebral
usuarias de Sistemas Alternativos de Comunicaci贸n