scholarly journals ICTs in Speech and Language Therapy

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios Drigas ◽  
Alexia Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Speech And Language Therapy ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
The Past

Over the past decade speech and language therapy has taken an interesting turn towards the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) for diagnosis of disorders and delivery of therapy. In many cases ICTs have worked as assistive tools to therapists, while in others as sole providers of therapy, especially in remote areas. In this report we provide a brief overview of the most representative articles for applications and assistive technologies used for assessment and intervention purposes in Speech Therapy according to the type of disorders.

scholarly journals Social Democratic and Critical Theories of the Intellectual Commons: A Critical Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Broumas
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Productive Force ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Commons ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

Over the past twenty years theorizing about the intellectual commons has undeniably become a popular activity not only among scholars that deal with the dialectics between information/communication technologies and society but also among the wider scientific community. Yet, the discourse over intellectual commons and their contested relationship with contemporary laws and institutions has not been confined only within the academia but has rather become a more general social issue. Social democratic and critical theories of the intellectual commons are re-conceptualizations of the social intellect as the productive force of our intellectual commonwealth. As emerging theoretical paradigms, they eventually come in contrast with the dominant notions of the social intellect, which basically advocate the establishment of private monopolies over intellectual works. By deciphering contemporary shifts and dynamics in the ways we produce and distribute information, knowledge and culture, such theories are thus better placed to inspire and orientate social movements, recast agendas of policy – making and construct alternative narratives to existing socio-legal arrangements, which are capable of accommodating the potential of the intellectual commons.

scholarly journals Empathy, Special Education and ICTs

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Athanasios Drigas ◽  
Chara Papoutsi
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Knowledge

During the past decades there have been considerable innovations with the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in many fields and sectors. In many settings ICTs have become an important element of the learning and teaching process. All social groups have been helped including children and adults with special educational needs. In this paper we provide a brief overview of the most representative articles for applications used for assessment, intervention and development of empathy which is an important skill that researches indicate that people with special educational needs lack of it. Empathy is a complex form of psychological inference in which observation, memory, knowledge, and reasoning are combined to yield insights into the thoughts and feelings of others.

scholarly journals The BioVisualSpeech Corpus of Words with Sibilants for Speech Therapy Games Development

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Sofia Cavaco ◽  
Isabel Guimarães ◽  
Mariana Ascensão ◽  
Alberto Abad ◽  
Ivo Anjos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Production ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Speech Sound ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Speech Sound Disorders ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Speech And Language Therapy ◽  
Computer Tools ◽  
Computer Science Research

In order to develop computer tools for speech therapy that reliably classify speech productions, there is a need for speech production corpora that characterize the target population in terms of age, gender, and native language. Apart from including correct speech productions, in order to characterize the target population, the corpora should also include samples from people with speech sound disorders. In addition, the annotation of the data should include information on the correctness of the speech productions. Following these criteria, we collected a corpus that can be used to develop computer tools for speech and language therapy of Portuguese children with sigmatism. The proposed corpus contains European Portuguese children’s word productions in which the words have sibilant consonants. The corpus has productions from 356 children from 5 to 9 years of age. Some important characteristics of this corpus, that are relevant to speech and language therapy and computer science research, are that (1) the corpus includes data from children with speech sound disorders; and (2) the productions were annotated according to the criteria of speech and language pathologists, and have information about the speech production errors. These are relevant features for the development and assessment of speech processing tools for speech therapy of Portuguese children. In addition, as an illustration on how to use the corpus, we present three speech therapy games that use a convolutional neural network sibilants classifier trained with data from this corpus and a word recognition module trained on additional children data and calibrated and evaluated with the collected corpus.

Using Means of Information-Communication Technologies for Testing and Assessing Learning Outcomes at Primary School

10.12737/4808 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Молокова ◽  
Anna Molokova
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Past

Developments in using information-communication technologies at primary school, and achieved in the past ten years are reviewed. The author features recommended means of computerization facilitative for testing and assessment of s primary schoolchildren’s learning outcomes.

The use of Information Technology as Tools of Developing Educational Communications for Realizing the Personal Potential of University Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Andrey Ivanovich Shutenko ◽  
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Elena Nikolaevn Shutenko ◽  
Julia Petrovna Derevyanko ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Informational Environment

The article is devoted to the problem of educational communications development as a sphere of implementation of modern information-communication technologies in the higher education system. The purpose of the article is to present the structure and functions of educational communications aimed at the development of personal potential and self-realization of students. Methodology. The study is based on the methodology of personal and communicative-informational approaches in education, psychological-pedagogical provisions on the structure of communication, the leading role of learning activity, didactic principles of building an educational-informational environment. In theoretical terms, the study is based on the idea of the indirect implementation of ICT in education through the development of educational communications. The developing structure of educational communications, including didactic, informational-gnostic, interactive, psychological, attractive-motivational, value-semantic components, is presented. The possibilities of developing personal potential in educational communications are considered. The author’s developmental model of ICT functions is presented, which includes clusters of actual and latent functions aimed at the formation of information-educational space for the development of students’ personal potential. In conclusion, a inference was made about the prospects of the indirect introduction of modern ICT as tools for the development and functioning of various educational communications. At the same time, it is essential that these communications perform psychological and pedagogical tasks and functions.

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