Aphasic speech with and without SentenceShaper®: Two methods for assessing informativeness

Aphasiology

Volumn 22, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 679-690

  Fink, Ruth ^a   Bartlett, Megan ^a   Lowery, Jennifer ^a   Linebarger, Marcia ^b   Schwartz, Myrna ^c  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Psycholinguistic Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AAC; Aphasia; Functional communication; Informativeness; Sentenceshaper

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NARRATIVE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 45949084956     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030701800792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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