scholarly journals Making sounds visible in speech-language therapy for aphasia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Merlino
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Instructional Tool ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Process Use ◽  
Mobile Cameras ◽  
Rehabilitation Clinic ◽  
Therapy Sessions ◽  
The Way

In this paper, I analyse video recordings of speech-language therapy sessions for people diagnosed with aphasia. I particularly explore the way in which the speech-language therapists instruct the patients to correctly pronounce speech sounds (e.g. phonemes, syllables) by deploying not only audible but also visible forms of cues. By using their bodies – face and gestures – as an instructional tool, the therapists make visual perceptual access to articulatory features of pronunciation relevant and salient. They can also make these sensory practices accountable through the use of other senses, such as touch. Data was collected in a hospital and in a rehabilitation clinic, tracking each patient’s recovery, and is part of a longitudinal multisite corpus. The paper considers the way in which participants in the therapeutic process use and coordinate forms of sensory access to language that are based on hearing and seeing. It highlights the importance of audio and video recordings to make accessible the auditory and visual details of these sensorial experiences – particularly, proper framings and the complementary use of fixed and mobile cameras.  

ONLINE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY. FOCUS-GROUP BASED STUDY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Bodea Hațegan ◽  
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Dorina Talaș ◽  
Raluca Trifu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Online Therapy ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Speech And Language Therapy ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
One Year ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Therapy Sessions

In March 2020, due to the pandemic situation from our country, the National lockdown was imposed for almost two months. Speech and language therapy field was very affected in this period of time and harsh decisions were to be taken. Children who strongly needed therapy were in the situation to either go on with the rehabilitation process in an online setting or to wait and postpone therapy sessions. The aim of this research is to present the situation in a SLT (speech and language therapy) private specialized center and to underline the advantages and the disadvantages of SLT online therapy after one year (from March 2020, till March 2021). In the beginning of March 2020, 37 children attended SLT sessions in this private center, 2 of them were recently assessed and they were supposed to begin therapy exactly on the first lockdown day. From all of them, 20 children (54 %) switch to online therapy sessions progressively. Starting with April 2020, after a three weeks break, 9 children diagnosed with mild to moderate speech and language disorders, switch from face to face to on-line. In May, 6 more children and in June another 5 children were brought back to therapy, even if we remained in an online setting. The other children, 17 (46%), either stopped all therapy sessions or began therapy in other centers that organized onsite therapeutic sessions after the lockdown period of time. At this present moment, in March 2021, at one year distance, the SLT center offers SLT services exclusively online, both assessment and therapy and the number of cases asking directly for online therapy is increasing daily (in March 2021, N=31). Results of this study, organized as focus-groups with 3 parents, 3 children and 3 therapists underlined that online SLT is very efficient as long as parents` involvement is high. The main advantages listed by all persons in the research, even by children are: easier to be more consistent; the attendance in the SLT sessions is definitely higher, parents can participate directly in these activities, resources are easily to be found. Among disadvantages, the fact that parents have to be very involved in this therapeutic process seems to be the most frequently listed. In discussions and conclusions of this study a profile of the online SLT users is about to be depicted, a profile related to the one found in specialized literature from the field.

scholarly journals A case study of a socially deprived child from a dialogical approach

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 672-679
Author(s):  
Vitória Leite Sarlanis ◽  
Giselle Massi ◽  
Kyrlian Bortolozzi ◽  
Rita Tonocchi ◽  
Thiago Mathias de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Visual Contact ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Child Victim ◽  
Therapy Sessions

ABSTRACT This study aims to discuss how Speech-language therapy based on a dialogical perspective can facilitate the language appropriation process of a child, victim of social deprivation.In this longitudinal case study, the collected data, from February to November 2016, were analyzed from therapy sessions conducted at a Speech-Language Clinic located in Southern Brazil. The child was a 5-year old girl, victim of social deprivation in her early childhood. For the language therapeutic and evaluation process, the therapist used contextualized language-based activities, several social functions, such as house playing and dolls. During the evaluation process, it was noted that the child did not show intention to initiate or respond to taking turns, did not maintain visual contact and used incomplete and generally unintelligible statements. Throughout the therapeutic process, it was seen that this child began to participate more effectively in the dialogues, replicating the statements of others, positioning herself in relation to the other, perceiving herself as a dialogical subject and initiating the interactive process. Through the dialogical interactions that occurred in this period, it is considered that there was an expansion of her discursive interactions, allowing a better organization of her speech and the role she plays in each social interaction.

Walking through the city soundscape: an audio-visual analysis of sensory experience for people with psychosis

2022 ◽  
pp. 147035722110526
Author(s):  
Sara Merlino ◽  
Lorenza Mondada ◽  
Ola Söderström
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Noisy Environments ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article discusses how an aspect of urban environments – sound and noise – is experienced by people walking in the city; it particularly focuses on atypical populations such as people diagnosed with psychosis, who are reported to be particularly sensitive to noisy environments. Through an analysis of video-recordings of naturalistic activities in an urban context and of video-elicitations based on these recordings, the study details the way participants orient to sound and noise in naturalistic settings, and how sound and noise are reported and reexperienced during interviews. By bringing together urban context, psychosis and social interaction, this study shows that, thanks to video recordings and conversation analysis, it is possible to analyse in detail the multimodal organization of action (talk, gesture, gaze, walking bodies) and of the sensory experience(s) of aural factors, as well as the way this organization is affected by the ecology of the situation.

scholarly journals Language and Learner Specific Influences on the Emergence of Consonantal Place and Manner Features

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvan Rose ◽  
Natalie Penney
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
First Language ◽  
Phonological Representation ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Distributional Properties ◽  
Phonological Categories ◽  
Word Forms ◽  
The Way

This article focuses on the emergence of consonantal place and manner feature categories in the speech of first language learners. Starting with an overview of current representational approaches to phonology, we take the position that only models that allow for the emergence of phonological categories at all levels of phonological representation (from sub-segmental properties of speech sounds all the way to word forms represented within the child’s lexicon) can account for the data. We begin with a cross-linguistic survey of the acquisition of rhotic consonants. We show that the types of substitutions affecting different rhotics cross-linguistically can be predicted from two main observations: the phonetic characteristics of these rhotics and the larger system of categories displayed by each language. We then turn to a peculiar pattern of labial substitution for coronal continuants in the speech of a German learner. Building on previous literature on the topic, we attribute the emergence of this pattern to distributional properties of the child’s developing lexicon. Together, these observations suggest that our understanding of phonological emergence must involve a consideration of multiple, potentially interacting levels of phonetic and phonological representation.

Pharyngeal articulation

1983 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-444
Author(s):  
M. M. Ghali
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The Way

This paper attempts to identify some unexplored types of articulation in the production of some speech sounds. The main interest here lies in the way some English and Arabic sounds are produced: the vowel /a/ in English, and Arabic consonants /ε/ and /ħ/.

Relation of Orientation, Verbal Aggression, and Physical Aggression to Compliance in Speech-Language Therapy for Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1311-1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betholyn Gentry ◽  
Antoinette Smith ◽  
Jess Dancer
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Aggressive Behaviors ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Formal Treatment ◽  
Orientation Training ◽  
Therapy Sessions

20 subjects with traumatic brain injury were tested over a 4-wk. period for aggressive behaviors; orientation to place, person, and time; and compliance in speech-language therapy sessions. Analysis showed significant correlations from .63 to .75 over the four sessions between orientation and compliance in speech-language therapy and suggest that orientation training could be a prerequisite to the formal treatment of other behavioral or communication disorders.

Speculations about the Potestas Litterarum in medieval grammar (11th through 13th centuries)

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estrella Pérez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sounds ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way

Summary The aim of this paper is to study the concept of potestas, one of the three ‘accidents’ of ‘letters’ in the Roman tradition. More specifically, it intends to examine the way in which the speculative grammarians from the 11th to the 13th centuries dealt with speech sounds and which issues were attached to it. The commentators of the beginning of this period mapped out the route to be followed in the attempt at a thorough explanation and systematization of Prisician’s adumbrations. To that purpose, they forged the successful term modus pronunciandi and classified the potestas into five types. This chapter was granted as much discussion as any other: some concepts and terminology of the Aristotelian universe were employed in it (e.g., the opposition substantial/accidental, potentiality/act). Nevertheless, some remarkable differences between the points of view of the 12th-century grammarians and those of the 13th-century have been observed, among them the interest on the part of the latter in the generation of sound. In this century, two works, the anonymous Tractatus de grammatica and John Dacus’s modistic Summa, held for different reasons a very particular position in the evolution of the doctrine on the potestas. In this respect, the influence of the former on the latter has been noticed. With their speculations all these medieval grammarians succeded in differentiating two levels within the realm of speech sounds.

scholarly journals Compreensão e produção oral de interrogativas-Q em crianças portuguesas surdas com implante coclear

2018 ◽  
pp. 168-189
Author(s):  
Mara Moita ◽  
Maria Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Speech And Language Therapy ◽  
Wh Questions ◽  
Therapy Sessions ◽  
Impaired Children

The present study investigates the comprehension and production of Portuguese wh-questions by hearing impaired children with cochlear implants. We investigate whether the asymmetries found in typically developing children are also present in our target group or whether the difficulties are more widespread. In particular, we investigate whether there are asymmetries between subject and (DP/PP) object wh-questions produced by these children, and whether wh-questions with a lexical restriction are more difficult than bare wh-questions. We also consider the importance of extra-linguistic variables, such as age of implantation, hearing age, early attendance of speech and language therapy sessions, and exposure to sign language.

The multimodal interactional organization of tasting: Practices of tasting cheese in gourmet shops

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 743-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenza Mondada
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Mutual Gaze ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Way

Taste is a central sense for humans and animals, and it has been largely studied either from physiological and neurological approaches or from socio-cultural ones. This paper adopts another view, focused on the activity of tasting rather than on the sense of taste, approached within the perspective of ethnomethodology and multimodal conversation analysis. This view addresses the activity of tasting as it is interactionally organized in specific social settings, observed in a naturalistic way, on the basis of video recordings. Focusing on video recorded improvised tastings of cheese in gourmet shop encounters, the paper offers a systematic analysis of the way in which tasting is orderly achieved in an intersubjective way. It follows the various steps characterizing tasting, from the invitation to taste, to the grasping of a bit to taste, which is put in the mouth, chewed, and swallowed; it details how an interactional moment offering the taster a priviledged, individual, focused space in which to devote exclusive attention to the object tasted is actively tailored by all parties. By contrast, the completion of tasting is marked by a return to mutual gaze, the animation of facial expressions and nods, and the final production of a judgment of taste. By offering a systematic reconstruction of how these tasting moments are organized, the paper invites to a multimodal approach of sensoriality in social interaction.

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