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1. 1. Prosody in Swedish Children with Language Impairment. Perceptual, Acoustic and Interactional Aspects

   Författare :Christina Samuelsson; foniatri och audiologi Logopedi; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; auditive system and speech; Otorinolaryngologi; audiologi; hörsel- och talorganen; audiology; Otorhinolaryngology; classification; acoustic evaluation; prosody; perceptual evaluations; language impairment;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to explore prosodic problems in Swedish children with language impairment (LI). In the first study, 29 children with LI participated. They were assessed with an assessment procedure for prosody at the word, phrase and discourse levels, developed within this thesis. LÄS MER

3. 2. Acquired brain injury in children and adolescents: Investigating assessment of communicative participation in daily life situations

   Författare :Åsa Fyrberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; communicative participation; acquired brain injury; children and adolescents; parental evaluations; self-assessments; cognitive and linguistic factors; brain injury data;

   Sammanfattning : Aims The overall aim of this thesis was to explore assessments of communicative participation in children and adolescents (hereafter: adolescents) with acquired brain injuries, mainly through evaluations in the Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI) and in interviews with the participants. The aim was also to capture important changes in communication over time. LÄS MER

4. 3. Evaluation of nasal speech : a study of assessments by speech-language pathologists, untrained listeners and nasometry

   Författare :Karin Brunnegård; Jan van Doorn; Anette Lohmander; Fiona Gibbon; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; hypernasality; auditory perceptual evaluation; reliability; nasometer; nasalance; Logopedics and phoniatrics; Logopedi och foniatrik;

   Sammanfattning : Excessive nasal resonance in speech (hypernasality) is a disorder which may have negative communicative and social consequences for the speaker. Excessive nasal resonance is often associated with cleft lip and palate, velopharyngeal impairment, dysarthria or hearing impairment. LÄS MER

5. 4. Pedagogical quality in preschool : an issue of perspectives

   Författare :Sonja Sheridan; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogical quality; external evaluations of pedagogical quality; selfevaluations of pedagogical quality; a model of competence development; children’s rights;

   Sammanfattning : The main aims of this thesis on the pedagogical quality in preschool are: to define and describe a pedagogical concept of quality; to explore how quality is experienced and valued from different perspectives; to find out what characterises a pedagogical environment of high quality; and to discuss how those characteristics can be used to improve the quality of preschool. The thesis comprises four studies, a meta-perspective of the results of these and a theoretical framework. LÄS MER

7. 5. Scalable Methods for Developing Interlocutor-aware Embodied Conversational Agents : Data Collection, Behavior Modeling, and Evaluation Methods

   Författare :Patrik Jonell; Jonas Beskow; Joakim Gustafsson; Gustav Eje Henter; Justine Cassell; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; non-verbal behavior generation; interlocutor-aware; data collection; behavior modeling; evaluation methods; Tal- och musikkommunikation; Speech and Music Communication;

   Sammanfattning : This work presents several methods, tools, and experiments that contribute to the development of interlocutor-aware Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). Interlocutor-aware ECAs take the interlocutor's behavior into consideration when generating their own non-verbal behaviors. LÄS MER