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University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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2006-09
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Editor’s Note
Majid Mirkhani
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http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-658-en.pdf
eng
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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2006-09
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An Introduction to Speech Sciences (Acoustic Analysis of Speech)
Nasser Rezaei
1
Abolfazl Salehi
2
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Speech sciences deal with the acoustical characteristics of speech by means of sophisticated soft wares as well as hard wares. Although, a speech science is a well known science in the developed countries, especially the western societies, however, it has been remained almost unknown in Iran, though, in recent years a group of scholars have been involved in this branch of science. The application of the speech sciences in the field of 'Speech and Language Therapy' has been widely accepted throughout the world. The main focus of these applications is the therapeutic aspects of the program, which is used for both adults and children. However, the non-therapeutic applications are mainly used for research purposes only. In this article, a brief introduction about the nature as well as the application of speech analysis for both normal and abnormal speeches is given. In addition, examples of the acoustical characteristics fconsonants and vowels such as, voice onset time (VOT), formant frequencies and spectrograms will be presented.
http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-3-en.pdf
Acoustic analysis
VOT
Spectrogram
Formant frequency
Disordered speech
eng
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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2006-09
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Rehabilitation of Oronasal Speech Disorders
Hashem Shemshadi
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University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Oronasal region, as an important organ of taste and smell, being respected for its impact on the resonace, which is crucial for any normal speech production. Different congenital, acquired and/or developmentalpdefect, may not only have impacts on the quality of respiration, phonation, resonance, also on the process of a normal speech. This article will enable readers to have more focus in such important neuroanatomical speech zones disorders and their respective proper rehabilitation methods in different derangements. Among all other defects, oronasal malfunctionings would definitely has an influence on the oronasal sound resonance and furtherly render impairments on a normal speech production. Rehabilitative approach by speech and language pathologist is highly recommended to alleviate most of oronasal speech disorders.
http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-4-en.pdf
Oronasal speech
Nasality
Speech therapy
Nasality reconstructions
eng
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
17353602
17353610
2006-09
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Aural Habilitation in Severe to Profound Hearing Impaired Children Below 2 years
N. Daneshmandan
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Gh. Azari
2
R. Seyednour
3
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-8-en.pdf
eng
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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2006-09
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Evidence of Double Dissociation in Auditory Agnosia: Implications for Rehabilition
Behrad Noudoust
1
http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-5-en.html
eng
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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17353610
2006-09
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Fluent Aphasia From Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
Fariba Yadegari
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Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
The present case report introduces a patient with fluent aphasia, anterograde amnesia and anosmia due to herpes simplex encephalitis after her first delivery. The left medial temporal lobe was one of the main areas involved. On aphasia testing she showed severe anomia on both confrontation and free recall, agraphia, alexia, repetition disorder and some auditory comprehension impairments. Therapy was focused on the following issues: phonological output lexicon , using graphemes as a source of reestablishing phonological representation; describing pictures to reinforce free recall and self-cuing word retrieval strategies; sequencing the events for language memory reinforcement, etc. Results showed improvement in confrontational naming, free recall, correct responses without priming, writing on dictation, spontaneous writing and reading comprehension.
http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-6-en.pdf
Fluent aphasia
Anomia
Herpes simplex encephalitis
eng
University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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2006-09
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Phonological Awareness and its implications for Reading Acquisition
Sima Shirazi
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Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Researches of more than two decades has affirmed the importance of phonological awareness and its relation to reading acquisition. Chard & Dickson (1999) consider phonological awareness as a "cognitive substrate to reading acquisition" (p.1). This article explains Phonological awareness and its relation to reading acquisition.
http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-7-en.pdf
Phonological awareness
Reading acquisition
Phonemic awareness