8 February 2022
The ability of infants to track transitional probabilities (Statistical Learning—SL) and to extract and generalize high-order rules (Rule Learning—RL) from sequences of items have been proposed as being pivotal for the acquisition of lang...
This document evidences an innovative methodological vision in the teaching-learning process of the English language focused on the inclusion of all its students in a heterogeneous learning environment. Learning a foreign language as a second languag...
Late-life depression (LLD) affects about an eighth of community-dwelling seniors. LLD impacts well-being, with loneliness and small social networks being typical. It has also been linked to cognitive dysfunction and an increased risk of developing de...
Language barriers and the communication difficulties of individuals with developmental disabilities are two major causes of communication problems that societies worldwide encounter. A particularly challenging group is hearing-impaired people who hav...
With the growing prevalence of bilingual education, second language (L2) reading impairment has garnered increasing attention. While extensive research has focused on reading impairment in the first language (L1), the neural mechanisms underlying L2...
The study explores the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing grammar challenges among children with learning disabilities, aiming to assess the efficacy of an AI-driven tool for personalized interventions. A sample of 100 children...
This study investigates the challenges of promoting accessibility for deaf teachers and students in higher education, focusing on the development of inclusive teaching materials. A qualitative case study was conducted in ten teacher training programm...
Sign language is a visual language for communication used by hearing-impaired people with the help of hand and finger movements. Indian Sign Language (ISL) is a well-developed and standard way of communication for hearing-impaired people living in In...
Sign language was designed to allow hearing-impaired people to interact with others. Nonetheless, knowledge of sign language is uncommon in society, which leads to a communication barrier with the hearing-impaired community. Many studies of sign lang...
Bilingual aphasia is shaped by a dynamic interplay of neural, cognitive, linguistic, and experiential factors that influence both impairment and recovery. This review synthesizes current evidence on bilingual language organization, assessment, and tr...
There are numerous communication barriers between people with and without hearing impairments. Writing and sign language are the most common modes of communication. However, written communication takes a long time. Furthermore, because sign language...
Sign language recognition technology can help people with hearing impairments to communicate with non-hearing-impaired people. At present, with the rapid development of society, deep learning also provides certain technical support for sign language...
The predominant means of communication is speech; however, there are persons whose speaking or hearing abilities are impaired. Communication presents a significant barrier for persons with such disabilities. The use of deep learning methods can help...
Human beings usually rely on communication to express their feeling and ideas and to solve disputes among themselves. A major component required for effective communication is language. Language can occur in different forms, including written symbols...
In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in identifying traits of cognitive impairment using audio from neuropsychological tests. Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted terminology system that can be used to describe...
Sign language is an essential means of communication for individuals with hearing disabilities. However, there is a significant shortage of sign language interpreters in some languages, especially in Saudi Arabia. This shortage results in a large pro...
Singing-Oriented Language and Music Education (SOLME) is an accessible, low-resource pedagogical and cognitive framework in which singing serves as the primary interface through which musical activities support both first and foreign language acquisi...
The aim of this research was to investigate the role of smartphones in teaching the English language to a population of fifteen, visually-impaired Brazilian students. Classroom ethnography was chosen as the methodological design and data generated fr...
Deaf and mute people are an integral part of society, and it is particularly important to provide them with a platform to be able to communicate without the need for any training or learning. These people rely on sign language, but for effective comm...
Symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity frequently co-occur with language difficulties in both clinical and community samples. We explore the specificity and strength of these associations in a heterogeneous sample of 254 children aged 5 to 15 year...
Outdoor solutions aiding the navigation of visually impaired individuals can seamlessly transition to indoor environments. Take, for instance, the adaptation of special lanes and configurations on the floor. However, these existing solutions fall sho...
A speech impairment limits a person’s capacity for oral and auditory communication. A great improvement in communication between the deaf and the general public would be represented by a real-time sign language detector. This work proposes a de...
A real-time Bangla Sign Language interpreter can enable more than 200 k hearing and speech-impaired people to the mainstream workforce in Bangladesh. Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) recognition and detection is a challenging topic in computer vision and...
Sign language is the most important way of communication for hearing-impaired people. Research on sign language recognition can help normal people understand sign language. We reviewed the classic methods of sign language recognition, and the recogni...
Hand gestures based sign language digits have several contactless applications. Applications include communication for impaired people, such as elderly and disabled people, health-care applications, automotive user interfaces, and security and survei...
Scholars have confirmed that apart from being an aid to hearing impaired or deaf people, intralingual subtitles, also known as captions, have a function as an audio–visual aid in language learning as well. While many studies verified the effect...
According to a study by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, a total of 15,145 people had a voice function impairment or speech function impairment, and a total of 122,533 people had a hearing impairment by the second...
Communication plays a vital role in conveying messages, expressing emotions, and sharing perceptions, becoming a fundamental aspect of human interaction with the environment. For individuals with hearing impairments, sign language serves as an essent...
Cannabis is the most widely consumed illicit substance worldwide, with rising use particularly among adolescents and young adults. Accumulating evidence indicates that chronic cannabis use may negatively impact several domains of cognition, yet findi...
The automatic recognition of sign language is very important to allow for communication by hearing impaired people. The purpose of this study is to develop a method of recognizing the static Mexican Sign Language (MSL) alphabet. In contrast to other...
Effective communication is crucial in daily life, and for people with hearing disabilities, sign language is no exception, serving as their primary means of interaction. Various technologies, such as cochlear implants and mobile sign language transla...
Language development is inextricably linked to the development of fundamental human abilities. A language problem can result from abnormal language development in childhood, which has a severe impact on other elements of life. As a result, early trea...
Multimodal learning is a promising area in artificial intelligence (AI) that can make the model understand different kinds of data. Existing works are trying to re-train a new model based on pre-trained models that requires much data, computation pow...
Background and Clinical Significance: developmental language disorder (DLD) and specific learning disorder (SLD) may coexist, resulting in significantly broader impairments to oral and written language skills. Understanding the neurobiological basis...
With the rapid advancement of sensor technologies, automated sign language recognition (SLR) has emerged as a critical enabler of inclusive communication systems for individuals with hearing and speech impairments. Although substantial research effor...
In this paper, we propose a framework to convert American Sign Language (ASL) to English and English to ASL. Within this framework, we use a deep learning model along with the rolling average prediction that captures image frames from videos and clas...
Sign language recognition is essential in hearing-impaired people’s communication. Wearable data gloves and computer vision are partially complementary solutions. However, sign language recognition using a general monocular camera suffers from...
Communication through sign language effectively helps both hearing- and speaking-impaired individuals connect. However, there are problems with the interlingual communication between Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) and English Sign Language (ASL) due to...
Language deficits represent one of the most relevant factors that determine the clinical phenotype of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The main aim of the research was to study the grammatical comprehension of children with ASD. A sample...
The last decade’s developments in sensor technologies and artificial intelligence applications have received extensive attention for daily life activity recognition. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children is a neurological development disor...
Purpose: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) frequently face pragmatic impairments which may result in learning, socialization, and mental health difficulties, therefore early intervention is crucial...
Diversity is understood as a significant advantage for inclusive learning. However, the questions of whether linguistic and communicative diversity in the classroom is truly beneficial and whether mutually linguistic support is effective between stud...
Integration of advanced artificial intelligence with neurotechnology offers transformative potential for assistive communication. This perspective article examines the emerging convergence between non-invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) spe...
Kazakh Sign Language (KSL) is a crucial communication tool for individuals with hearing and speech impairments. Deep learning, particularly Transformer models, offers a promising approach to improving accessibility in education and communication. Thi...
Sign language is a natural, structured, and complete form of communication to exchange information. Non-verbal communicators, also referred to as hearing impaired and hard of hearing (HI&HH), consider sign language an elemental mode of communicat...
Dementia affects the patient’s memory and leads to language impairment. Research has demonstrated that speech and language deterioration is often a clear indication of dementia and plays a crucial role in the recognition process. Even though ea...
In a now-classic article published a couple of decades ago (Brain, 2000; 123: 2373–2399), I proposed an “extended temporal processing deficit hypothesis of dyslexia”, suggesting that a deficit in temporal processing could explain not only language-re...
The purpose of the study was to examine whether monolingual adults can identify the bilingual children with LI on the basis of children’s response speed to the examiner. Participants were 37 monolingual English-speaking young adults. Stimuli we...
Communication is integral to every human’s life, allowing individuals to express themselves and understand each other. This process can be challenging for the hearing-impaired population, who rely on sign language for communication due to the l...
Very low-bit quantization of a multimodal large language model’s vision encoder can impair text recognition and chart understanding. We present projected-feature scale calibration (PSC), an image-only post-training method for 2-bit vision encod...
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