Electropalatography (EPG), a technique which reveals tongue-palate contact patterns over time, is a highly effective tool for speech research. We report here on recent developments by Articulate Instruments Ltd. These include hardware for Windows-based computers, backwardly compatible (with Reading EPG3) software systems for clinical intervention…

The STARDUST project developed robust computer speech recognizers for use by eight people with severe dysarthria and concomitant physical disability to access assistive technologies. Independent computer speech recognizers trained with normal speech are of limited functional use by those with severe dysarthria due to limited and inconsistent…

Twelve grade school children who were unable to imitate correctly the three /r/ allophones in 40 stimulus items during baseline participated in a study designed to determine if training on any one specific /r/ allophone would result in transfer to other /r/ allophones without specific training. (Author)

This program of auditory articulation therapy de-emphasizes production-oriented therapy in working with unintelligible 3-to-6-year-old children. It proposes auditory training activities, which train the child's ears on all sounds in error in order to facilitate readiness for correct production of sounds. Production training is then suggested for…

Existing distinctive feature systems have several practical shortcomings which, although they do not necessarily have important consequences for theoretical linguistics, constitute a considerable obstacle to diagnosing and treating speech disorders. (Author)

This, Part I of a longer work, is a study of the automatic recovery from speech defects. (CH)

Described is an instructional procedure, based on distinctive features approach, for teaching the stop-fricative (a consonant characterized by frictional parrage of expired breath) contrast to children with articulation problems. (CL)

Investigated with 66 elementary children (all enrolled in articulation therapy) was the assumption that children who are in the process of developing automatization of correct production. (Author/SBH)

The "Visual Phonics" system, which uses 43 hand cues and corresponding written symbols to help deaf students improve their speech and reading skills, was evaluated with six deaf upper elementary grade students in a speech therapy program. Pre- and posttesting indicated substantially improved articulation both with and without hand cues.…

The article presents a phonological process analysis classification for use with the most popular articulation tests, including a descriptive comparison across the tests of the number of opportunities for phonological patterns to be applied. (Author/DB)