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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827147103321

Autore

Beals Katharine

Titolo

Speech and language technology for language disorders / / Katharine Beals [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61451-645-6

1-61451-925-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Health Care, , 2329-5198

Classificazione

ER 850

Disciplina

616.85/506

Soggetti

Communicative disorders - Patients - Rehabilitation

Assistive computer technology

Speech processing systems

Communication devices for people with disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of speech and language technologies -- 2. Overview of developmental language disorders -- 3. Technology for assessment and remediation of developmental language disorders -- 4. Technology for task assessment, classroom accommodation, and communicative assistance of developmental language disorders -- 5. Conclusions and caveats about developmental language technology -- 6. Overview of acquired aphasia and disorders of word retrieval -- 7. Software for aphasia: computer-assisted treatment of word retrieval deficits in aphasia -- 8. Software for aphasia: MossTalk Words® (MTW) -- 9. Speech technology for aphasic sentence production disorders -- 10. Evaluating speech and language applications for language disorders -- 11. Conclusions -- Authors’ biographies -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws on the recent remarkable advances in speech and language processing: advances that have moved speech technology beyond basic applications such as medical dictation and telephone



self-service to increasingly sophisticated and clinically significant applications aimed at complex speech and language disorders. The book provides an introduction to the basic elements of speech and natural language processing technology, and illustrates their clinical potential by reviewing speech technology software currently in use for disorders such as autism and aphasia. The discussion is informed by the authors' own experiences in developing and investigating speech technology applications for these populations. Topics include detailed examples of speech and language technologies in both remediative and assistive applications, overviews of a number of current applications, and a checklist of criteria for selecting the most appropriate applications for particular user needs. This book will be of benefit to four audiences: application developers who are looking to apply these technologies; clinicians who are looking for software that may be of value to their clients; students of speech-language pathology and application development; and finally, people with speech and language disorders and their friends and family members.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132712103321

Autore

Johnson Barbara <1947-2009.>

Titolo

Moses and multiculturalism / / Barbara Johnson ; foreword by Barbara Rietveld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-76398-9

9786612763984

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 p.)

Collana

Flashpoints ; ; 2

Classificazione

11.41

Disciplina

222/.1092

Soggetti

Multiculturalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-104) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Biblical Moses -- Chapter 2. Moses and the Law -- Chapter 3. Flavius Josephus -- Chapter 4. Frances E. W. Harper -- Chapter 5. Moses, the Egyptian -- Chapter 6. Freud's Moses -- Chapter 7.



Hurston's Moses -- Chapter 8. The German Moses -- Chapter 9. Moses, the Movie -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts-biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies-Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and historical moments. But she finds that already in the Bible, the story of Moses is a multicultural story, the story of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.