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Ultrasound Images of the Tongue: A Tutorial for Assessment and Remediation of Speech Sound Errors
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2017
Ultrasound imaging can be used to display the shape and movements of the tongue in real time during speech. The images can be used to determine the nature of speech sound errors. Visual feedback of the tongue can be used to facilitate improvements in speech sound production in clinical populations.
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Language: The N400 in Semantic Incongruity
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Sarah I. Gimbel and Jonas T. Kaplan— University of Southern California Understanding language is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that humans are capable of. Given the incredible amount of possible choices when combining individual words to form meaning in sentences, it is crucial that the brain is able to identify when words form coherent combinations and when an anomaly appears that undermines meaning. Extensive research has shown that certain scalp-recorded...
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Involving Individuals with Developmental Language Disorder and Their Parents/Carers in Research Priority Setting
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2020
A protocol to enable individuals with developmental language disorder (DLD) and their parents/carers to meaningfully participate in a research priority setting exercise is established. The protocol includes a defined program of activities for data collection, and methods to incorporate this data into the broader research priority setting process.
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Virtual Agent for Real-Time Motivational Interviewing by Integrating Adaptive Nonverbal Behavior and Language Models
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2025
We present an open-source virtual agent platform for conducting real-time motivational interviews, combining state-of-the-art language and diffusion models to adapt to users' behavior and profile. Utilizing the Greta 2.0 platform, it supports various topics, including nutrition and sport-focused interventions, and offers a flexible, validated tool for enhancing digital therapeutic interactions.
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Portable Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL): Investigating Language Comprehension in Typically Developing Toddlers and Young Children with Autism
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2012
A reliable home-based way to assess the language comprehension of very young typically developing children, as well as those with autism, is described. The method analyzes children's eye gaze while viewing side-by-side images but hearing an audio that matches only one image. Stimuli are designed with young participants in mind.
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Individualized assessment determines which communication, speech, language, voice, fluency, or swallowing functions are impaired and how those difficulties affect daily participation. Clinicians use those findings to select targets rather than applying an identical program to every person. This matching process helps align treatment with functional needs and provides a baseline for judging change over time.
Structured exercises and guided practice are intended to strengthen targeted skills through repeated, supported performance. Communication supports and compensatory strategies serve a different purpose: they help a person communicate more effectively when an impaired function remains difficult. Combining skill development with practical adaptations can improve functional communication and participation during the course of treatment.
Swallowing interventions focus on safety and efficiency during eating and drinking, rather than communication performance alone. Assessment identifies the relevant swallowing difficulty, after which treatment can use structured practice or compensatory strategies suited to the person’s needs. Monitoring helps determine whether the approach supports safer, more effective eating and drinking.
Outcome monitoring shows whether selected exercises, guided practice, or compensatory approaches are producing the intended functional change. Clinicians use this information to tailor treatment, continue effective strategies, or adjust priorities as needs evolve. In rehabilitation, tracking outcomes also supports evaluation of recovery and helps determine whether intervention is improving communication or swallowing-related performance.
A clinical course generally begins with assessment, followed by identification of impaired functions and selection of individualized targets. Treatment may then combine structured exercises, guided practice, compensatory strategies, and communication supports. Clinicians monitor outcomes throughout the process so they can tailor the intervention and evaluate whether skills, functional communication, swallowing safety, or efficiency are changing.
Within medicine, Speech Language Therapy is relevant to rehabilitation after stroke or brain injury and to care for developmental, neurologic, and voice-related disorders. Its scope spans the lifespan, so the clinical context may differ substantially, while the common approach remains individualized assessment, targeted intervention, and outcome monitoring.