Speech Disorders - Rehabilitation
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Current aspects of neurorehabilitation after stroke]

12 Aug 2009 Stroke is the main cause of long-term disability. Neurorehabilitation uses the specific lesion- induced and training-induced plasticity of the central nervous system. The present article gives an overview of conventional rehabilitation methods and ... Read more...

Hemipalatal hypoplasia.

29 Jun 2009 Asymmetric velopharyngeal incompetence (VPI) has a diverse etiology, but those without any underlying cleft, hemifacial microsomia (HFM), or facial asymmetry are rarely encountered. Such cases have been reported within the last few years, with ... Read more...

[Speech intelligibility tests in cochlear implant patients]

30 May 2009 The investigation of speech intelligibility under quiet and noisy conditions is essential to evaluate the auditory and verbal rehabilitation of cochlear implant patients. A set of audiological tests is introduced that has been validated and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Speech Disorders - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Current aspects of neurorehabilitation after stroke] 12 Aug 2009
• Hemipalatal hypoplasia. 29 Jun 2009
• [Head and neck cancers. IV. Rehabilitation following surgery of head and neck cancers] 29 Jun 2009
• [Speech intelligibility tests in cochlear implant patients] 30 May 2009
• [Laryngeal lead shot injury: therapy and follow-up] 30 May 2009
• What influences literacy outcome in children with speech sound disorder? 27 Apr 2009
• A Cochrane review of treatment for childhood apraxia of speech. 27 Feb 2009
• Voice and choral singing treatment: a new approach for speech and voice disorders in Parkinson's disease. 27 Feb 2009
• Speech acquisition in older nonverbal individuals with autism: a review of features, methods, and prognosis. 27 Feb 2009
• [Palatal orthosis as an aid in rehabilitation of patients with dysfunctions or defects of the soft palate after tumor therapy] 23 Feb 2009
• [Automated postlaryngectomy telephone test] 30 Dec 2008
• [An assessment tool for analysing the early vocal development of young children with cochlear implant] 7 Dec 2008
• Cluttering in Down syndrome. 9 Nov 2008
• Secure telemonitoring system for delivering telerehabilitation therapy to enhance children's communication function to home. 30 Oct 2008
• Rhythmic motor entrainment in children with speech and language impairments: tapping to the beat. 29 Oct 2008
• Health-related quality of life of adults with childhood diagnosis of specific language impairment. 12 Aug 2008
• Bibliography. Current world literature. Speech therapy and rehabilitation. 30 May 2008
• Speech and swallowing disorders in Parkinson disease. 30 May 2008
• The effects of aided AAC interventions on AAC use, speech, and symbolic gestures. 29 Apr 2008
• The effect of nasal speaking valve on the speech under experimental velopharyngeal incompetence condition. 29 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Speech Disorders'

Definition: Acquired or developmental conditions marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or generate spoken forms of language.

Descriptor UI: D013064

Alternative terms: Speech Disorders; Cluttering; Clutterings; Verbal Fluency Disorders; Verbal Fluency Disorder; Dyslalia; Dyslalias; Rhinolalia; Rhinolalias; Aprosodia; Aprosodias; Aprosodic Speech; Speech, Aprosodic; Dysglossia; Dysglossias;

Related Mesh Headings: Language Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.800; C23.888.592.604.150.500.800;

Technical Notes: /ther: consider also SPEECH THERAPY; do not confuse with LANGUAGE DISORDERS: read differentiation of SPEECH & LANGUAGE under SPEECH