An operantly conditioned looking task for assessing infant auditory processing ability

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 147-154

  Nawyn, Jason ^a   Roesler, Cynthia ^a   Realpe Bonilla, Teresa ^a   Choudhury, Naseem ^a   Benasich, April A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early assessment; Eye tracking; Infant computer interaction; Language impairment; Operant conditioning

Indexed keywords

EARLY ASSESSMENT; EYE TRACKING; INFANT COMPUTER INTERACTION; LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; OPERANT CONDITIONING;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 42149091116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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