Open AccessTranslation of the Speech Therapy Programs in the Logomon Assisted Therapy System
Author(s) -
Ştefan Gheorghe Pentiuc,
Iolanda Tobolcea,
Ovidiu Andrei Schipor,
Mirela Danubianu,
Doina Maria Schipor
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2010.02008
Subject(s) - speech therapy , computer science , speech translation , speech recognition , translation (biology) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , machine translation , medicine , audiology , biochemistry , chemistry , messenger rna , gene
This interdisciplinary research was developed with a view to create and implement an intelligent informatics system for the treatment of dyslalic disorders, specific to the Romanian language (CBTS system - computer-based speech therapy), as a complementary speech therapy method, customised and client-oriented. The rules of the logotherapeutic guide have been expressed in pseudocode programs in order to allow a greater flexibility in expressing the logotherapeutic procedures in an informatics system. The pseudocode logopedic programs comprise the succession of stages of the therapeutic program from a speech therapy perspective, and based on what the expert system can achieve. The LOGOMON system is conceived in order to assist the physical therapist and the child during the entire therapeutic period, recording the main data related to the child, which proved to be useful in diagnosis and treatment. The experimental validation of the system proved that assisted therapy contributes to the improvement of classical therapy, to obtaining optimal results in correcting the dyslalic person's speech