Speech(lessness), Negative Pleasure, and the Sublime Objects of Suburbia in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School by Nikolai Wansart

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New Face of European Union: Right-Wing Populism in the EU-Countries by E. V. Khakhalkina, K. P. Andreev, A. V. Munko

“…The European Union undergoes several qualitative transformations. Today it faces major demographic changes, the distance between the EU and national states is growing because of Brexit and high rates of immigration to Europe. …”
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Enhanced Conformer-Based Speech Recognition via Model Fusion and Adaptive Decoding with Dynamic Rescoring by Junhao Geng, Dongyao Jia, Zihao He, Nengkai Wu, Ziqi Li

“…Speech recognition is widely applied in fields like security, education, and healthcare. …”
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State-of-the-Art on the Impact of Bimodal Acoustic Stimulation on Speech Perception in Noise in Adults: A Systematic Review by Antonio Casarella, Anna Notaro, Carla Laria, Nicola Serra, Elisabetta Genovese, Rita Malesci, Gennaro Auletta, Anna Rita Fetoni

“…CIs stimulate the auditory nerve by bypassing damaged hair cells, while HAs amplify sounds by requiring a functional hearing residual. The aim of this systematic review is to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of BS such as speech perception in noise. …”
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A Design-Based Research Approach to Streamline the Integration of High-Tech Assistive Technologies in Speech and Language Therapy by Anna Lekova, Paulina Tsvetkova, Anna Andreeva, Georgi Dimitrov, Tanio Tanev, Miglena Simonska, Tsvetelin Stefanov, Vaska Stancheva-Popkostadinova, Gergana Padareva, Katia Rasheva, Adelina Kremenska, Detelina Vitanova

“…Currently, high-tech assistive technologies (ATs), particularly Socially Assistive Robots (SARs), virtual reality (VR) and conversational AI (ConvAI), are considered very useful in supporting professionals in Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) for children with communication disorders. …”
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A Speech-Based Mobile Screening Tool for Mild Cognitive Impairment: Technical Performance and User Engagement Evaluation by Rukiye Ruzi, Yue Pan, Menwa Lawrence Ng, Rongfeng Su, Lan Wang, Jianwu Dang, Liwei Liu, Nan Yan

“…Traditional screening methods for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) face limitations in accessibility and scalability. …”
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Current status of Tele-speech language therapy by type and support for patients with post-stroke aphasia: A scoping review. by Yuhei Kodani, Shinsuke Nagami, Ayaka Yokozeki, Shinya Fukunaga, Katsuya Nakamura, Hikaru Nakamura

“…To provide high-quality support for PWA who have faced challenges accessing in-person speech-language therapy since the COVID-19 pandemic, further research and development of Tele-SLT implementation guidelines are needed.…”
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Comparative effects of arithmetic, speech, and motor dual-task walking on gait in stroke survivors: a cross-sectional study by Xueyi Zhang, Xueyi Zhang, Qi Wang, Qiujie Li, Qiujie Li, Hui Liu, Hui Liu, Xianglin Wan, Xianglin Wan

“…This study assessed the acute effects of different types of dual tasks on gait in stroke patients during task performance, informing occupational, and physical therapists about care recommendations to prevent patients from falling and improve their balance function in daily life.MethodsA total of 19 stroke patients (52.7 ± 6.9 years old) performed the walking-only and dual-task walking (motor, arithmetic and speech) task test while a 3D motion capture system measured the gait parameters (the gait spatial-temporal parameters, sagittal angle of lower-limb joints, gait parameter variability and dual-task cost). …”
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Planning community-based intervention for speech for children with cleft lip and palate from rural South India: A needs assessment by Subramaniyan Balasubramaniyan, Vaidyanathan Raghunathan, B. Rajashekhar, B. W. C. Sathiyasekaran, Roopa Nagarajan

“…Descriptive analysis and profiling of speech samples were carried out and reported using universal protocol for reporting speech outcomes. …”
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FACE-Q Head and Neck Cancer Questionnaire for Brazilian Portuguese: Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Linguistic Validation by Vitor Penteado Figueiredo Pagotto, Rodolfo Costa Lobato, Adriana Margarita Buelvas Bustillo, Cristiane Pereira Lopes, Rafael Mamoru Carneiro Tutihashi, Fábio de Freitas Busnardo, Rolf Gemperli

“…Introduction: Head and neck neoplasms often affect fundamental functions, such as swallowing, speech, eating, and socializing. …”
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L’anthropologie face au conflit syrien : replacer la société au cœur de l’analyse by Thierry Boissière

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Functional cleft palate surgery by Ulrich Joos, Anthony F. Markus, Robert Schuon

“…Cleft lip and palate (CLP) as a dislocation malformation confronts parents with a malformation of their child that could not be more central and visible: the face. In addition to the stigmatizing appearance, however, in cases of a CLP, food intake, physiological breathing, speech and hearing are also affected.In this paper, the principles of morphofunctional surgical reconstruction of the cleft palate are presented. …”
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Sustainable Delivery of Speech-Language Therapy Services in Small Island Developing States Using Information and Communication Technology – A Study of the Maldives by Mariyam Z. Zahir, Anna Miles, Linda Hand, Elizabeth C. Ward

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Speech-language therapy and occupational therapy for patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a retrospective cohort study using German health claims data by Fiona Dörr, Daniela Holle, Bashar Morouj, Dominik Obermüller, Sascha Sommer, Markus Wübbeler, Kerstin Bilda

“…Speech-language therapy (SLT) and occupational therapy (OT) can help maintain cognitive function and quality of life, particularly in the early stages of dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). …”
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Language Experience Influences Sociolinguistic Development: The Role of Speaker Race and Language Attitudes on Bilingual and Monolingual Adults’ Accent Processing by Vanessa Ritsema, Rebeka Workye, Drew Weatherhead

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Smartphone Application–Based Voice and Speech Training Program for Parkinson Disease: Feasibility and Satisfaction Study With a Preliminary Rater-Blinded Single-Arm Pretest and Pos... by Sol-Hee Lee, Jiae Kim, Han-Joon Kim

“…However, given their increasingly limited mobility, face-to-face speech therapy is often inaccessible. …”
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A functional model of role expectations in child-parent relationships by Julia V. Budagova

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Profiling Cognitive and Social Functioning in a Small Cohort with Malan Syndrome by Niccolò Butti, Cosimo Urgesi, Paolo Alfieri, Manuela Priolo, Rosario Montirosso

“…Nonetheless, memory for faces, visual attention and contextual (non-verbal) theory of mind emerged as relative strengths of the profile, both at group and individual levels. …”
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Effect of Situational Interactive Respiratory Training System on Patients with Respiratory Dysfunction after Stroke by TAN Lishuang, WANG Na, ZHAO Xiaoxue, DU Tianshu, ZHANG Yan

“…ObjectiveTo explore the effect of situational interactive respiratory training system on respiratory function, swallowing function and activities of daily living of patients with respiratory dysfunction after stroke.MethodsA total of 60 patients with respiratory dysfunction after stroke who were treated in the Rehabilitation Center of the Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from September 2018 to September 2020, which were randomly divided to the the control group and the observation group, with 30 cases in each group. …”
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361 Automated assessment of facial nerve function using multimodal machine learning by Oren Wei, Diana Lopez, Ioan Lina, Kofi Boahene

“…Objectives/Goals: Current popular scoring systems for evaluating facial nerve function are subjective and imprecise. This study aims to quantify speech and facial motor changes in patients suffering from facial palsy after cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumor resection to lay the foundation for a scoring algorithm that is higher resolution and more objective. …”
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