Methods and devices for enhancing fluency in persons who stutter employing visual speech gestures

dc.contributor.author	Kalinowski, Joseph Stanley
dc.contributor.author	Stuart, Andrew
dc.contributor.author	Rastatter, Michael
dc.date.accessioned	2016-02-05T15:36:13Z
dc.date.available	2016-02-05T15:36:13Z
dc.date.issued	2006-04-18
dc.description.abstract	Methods, devices, and computer program products display visual choral speech to a patient who stutters or has a speech impediment or impairment as a visual stimulus for the patient to enhance the fluency of the patient. The visual choral speech is incongruous with the speech produced by the stutterer and is provided by a visual display of the articulatory movements of a person other than the patient (or a simulated representation thereof) of the person's lips and mouth as the person speaks. The visual speech gestures can be displayed to the patient in advance of a speaking event or speech production by the stutterer and/or concurrently with a speaking event (either intermittently or continuous during the speaking event). The visual choral speech gestures can be based on a string of coherent words to provide the visual speech gestures signal such that it is relayed to the user without the attendant auditory component allowing the user to speak at a substantially normal pace with enhanced fluency.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	U.S. Patent No. 7,031,922
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5162
dc.title	Methods and devices for enhancing fluency in persons who stutter employing visual speech gestures	en_US
dc.type	Patent	en_US

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