Sentence examples for functional speech from inspiring English sources

Some individuals with developmental disabilities fail to acquire functional speech despite extensive teaching efforts.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether five children with autism and little or no functional speech learn to request more efficiently when provided with speech output during instruction (SPEEC Hcondition) rather than without speech output (NO-SPEECH condition).

The pieces were joined, or concatenated, creating functional speech synthesis that can handle most words, albeit with unconvincing cadence and tone.

Some individuals eventually lose all functional speech.

A 2009 descriptive review provided preliminary evidence that PECS is easily learned by most individuals with autism, provides communication to those with little or no functional speech, and has some limited positive impact on social interaction and challenging behaviours.

Patients were followed postoperatively and assessed after 6 months for the following functional outcomes: speech, deglutition, tongue mobility, and donor site morbidity.

Measures included residual hearing, functional gain, speech recognition, acoustic feedback, occlusion, and patient self-assessment to determine satisfaction, perceived performance, and device preference compared with an appropriately fit acoustic hearing aid.

Establishment of functional TE speech apparently was not enough to counteract the negative impact on his quality of life from the physical disfigurement.

Due to normal hearing in the good ear, the benefits from amplification may be limited (e.g., amount of functional gain, speech intelligibility improvement).

Whether the co-morbidity between dysarthria and language impairments is due to the functional links between speech and language networks, or to widespread injury affecting both motor and language tracts, remains unknown.