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Cognitive, Language, Learning Disabilities & Low Literacy

Dysarthric Speech Database for Development of QoLT Software Technology

D. Choi, B. Kim, Y. Kim, Y. Lee, Y. Um, M. Chung

This work collects a database of dysarthric speech. Speakers were recorded on reading words from phonology assessments and korean phonetic alphabets.
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Dysarthria

The design and field evaluation of PhotoTalk: a digital image communication application for people

M. Allen, J. McGrenere, B. Purves

This work aims to build an application for a mobile device that allows people with aphasia to independently capture and manage digital photographs to support face-to-face communication. Two participants took and labeled photographs of objects. They would reaarrange them and hence generate logs of user interaction.
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AphasiaAugmentive and Alternative Communication

Automatic detection of Parkinson's disease in running speech spoken in three different languages.

J. Orozco-Arroyave, F. Hönig, J. Arias-Londoño, J. Vargas-Bonilla, K. Daqrouq, S. Skodda, J. Rusz, E. Nöth

The work investigates if a proposed model achieves a good performance in a cross lingual database. Six sentences are read, and a read text of 36 words is read in the three languages
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Parkinson's disease

A Dutch Dysarthric Speech Database for Individualized Speech Therapy Research

E. Yılmaz, M. Ganzeboom, L. Beijer, C. Cucchiarini, H. Strik

A dutch dysarthic speech dataset is collected for future research Face to face speech therapy sessions are collected, with the text that they were asked to read aloud.
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DysarthriaParkinson's diseaseBrain and Cerebrovascular Injury

Japan-Korea Joint Project on Monitoring People with Dementia

K. Makimoto, M. Yamakawa, N. Ashida, Y. Kang, K. Shin

This work uses a new Integrated Circuit tag (IC) monitoring system to compare the similarities and dissimilarities in movement patterns of institutionalized elders with dementia between Korea and Japan 13 residents in Japan and South Korea were monitored for 7 days with an embedded system that they wore.
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DementiaInstitutionalized Older Patients

Data augmentation of wearable sensor data for parkinson’s disease monitoring using convolutional neural networks

T. Um, F. Pfister, D. Pichler, S. Endo, M. Lang, S. Hirche, U. Fietzek, D. Kulić

A dataset of daily living conditions from patients with Parkinson's disease is collected and various data augmentatin techiniques are applied to make the dataset more amenable to deep learning techinques. Microsoft wearable band accelerometer data of patients with Parkinson's disease is collected
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Parkinson's disease

New Spanish speech corpus database for the analysis of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease

J.R. Orozco-Arroyave, J.D. Arias-Londono, J.F. Vargas-Bonilla, M.C. Gonzalez-Rativa, E. Noth

Characterization of vowels by native Spanish speaking patients with Parkinson's disease A protocol was followed, patients recorded sustained phonations of the vowels, diadochokinetic evaluation, 45 words, 10 sentences, a reading text and a monologue
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Parkinson's diseasePhonationArticulation

Narrative skills in adolescents with a history of SLI in relation to non-verbal IQ scores

D. Wetherell, N. Botting, G. Conti-Ramsden

Qualitative differences in verbal activities of children with verbal impairments are ascertained. Audio collected during recitation of two stories was transcribed. Only 8 of 19 adolescents had verbal IQ's below 85. More features on narrative ability were extracted as well.
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Verbal impairment

Identifying dyslectic gaze pattern

J. Lustig

A machine learning model for identifying dyslexia is collected Students were asked to read from a set of text documents while eye tracking data was collected
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dyslexiaEye tracking

Detecting Motor Impairment in Early Parkinson’s Disease via Natural Typing Interaction With Keyboards: Validation of the neuroQWERTY Approach in an Uncontrolled At-Home Setting

M. Gray, L. Giancardo, Á. Sánchez-Ferro

A dataset of keypress timings for detecting Parkinson's disease is collected. Key press times were recorded while participants conducted a controlled typing task at their home.
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Parkinson's diseaseMotor impairment