Frontmatter -- 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
Summary
This book draws on the remarkable advances in speech and language processing taking us beyond basic medical dictation and telephone self-service, areas commonly associated with speech technology, to address a wide range of complex speech and language disorders ranging from autism to aphasia
