1. Overview of speech and language technologies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Overview of speech and language technologies 7
6. 2. Overview of developmental language disorders 43
7. 3. Technology for assessment and remediation of developmental language disorders 51
8. 4. Technology for task assessment, classroom accommodation, and communicative assistance of developmental language disorders 105
9. 5. Conclusions and caveats about developmental language technology 119
10. 6. Overview of acquired aphasia and disorders of word retrieval 125
11. 7. Software for aphasia: computer-assisted treatment of word retrieval deficits in aphasia 135
12. 8. Software for aphasia: MossTalk Words® (MTW) 141
13. 9. Speech technology for aphasic sentence production disorders 155
14. 10. Evaluating speech and language applications for language disorders 195
15. 11. Conclusions 203
16. Authors’ biographies 207
17. Index 211