Intensive therapy, even four years later, improves stroke victims speechtext editorEmerging Infectious Diseases
They work with many types of patients, including stroke victims who are relearning to speak, babies who have trouble swallowing, people who speak with a stutter and children with language delays. “Our field is so broad,” says Karen George, a speech-language pathologist and owner of Chicago ...
Study finds distinct brain paths for speech, writing Way to help stroke victims is foreseenJudy Foreman, Globe Staff
For facial-avatar animation, we demonstrate the control of virtual orofacial movements for speech and non-speech communicative gestures. The decoders reached high performance with less than two weeks of training. Our findings introduce a multimodal speech-neuroprosthetic approach that has substantial ...
While this is relatively easy in the case of language loss from, for example, a brain stroke because the destroyed brain areas can be identified at autopsy, it is more difficult in the case of the large group of so-called functional speech disorders for two reasons: first, they are ...