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This system,
developed by linguists from the Siberian Federal University and experts
from the Federal Siberian Science-Clinical Center of Russia’s Federal
Medical-Biological Agency makes it possible to ensure individual speech
rehabilitation, depending on the degree and type of speech disorders.
Russian
scientists are developing an online electronic system that will help
patients who have suffered a stroke with speech rehabilitation. The
number of patients with systematic speech disorders caused by strokes
continues to increase every year. In some cases, such patients are
unable to speak at all.
Patients suffering from aphasia (speech disorders) and their relatives experience serious psychological stress.
Aphasia-related speech disorders call for regular therapy involving medical experts. However, many patients live in remote areas, and this can make it difficult for them to get speech therapy.
The
electronic system offers a number of online exercises. According
to scientists, these exercises heed most factors facilitating successful
speech rehabilitation.
Linguists study speech patterns of patients with various types
of speech disorders, and then they assess the results of preliminary
linguistic work with such patients; this makes it possible to compile a
system of exercises, Anastasia Kolmogorova, Head of the Department
of Romance Languages and Applied Linguistics at Siberian Federal
University’s School of Philology and Language Communication, explained.
According to Director of the School of Philology and Language Communication Lyudmila Kulikova, project implementation results can influence the patient rehabilitation methodology and its main principles, as well as linguists’ view on the mental vocabulary’s organization and the linguistic system’s functioning. “Cognitive science in Russia and abroad focuses on these interdisciplinary matters,” she added.
Patients suffering from aphasia (speech disorders) and their relatives experience serious psychological stress.
Aphasia-related speech disorders call for regular therapy involving medical experts. However, many patients live in remote areas, and this can make it difficult for them to get speech therapy.
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“We take into account the influence of the
context while using linguistic units, including their direct and
figurative meanings, their linguistic specifications, including the
frequency of their use and poly-semantic aspects, as well
as psycho-linguistic parameters (reproduction, learning age, objective
and subjective difficulties), on the successful reinstatement of such
linguistic units in a patient’s mental vocabulary,” she added.
While cooperating with experts from the department for restoring
higher mental functions at the Federal Siberian Science-Clinical Center
of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency (O. Nikolskaya, S.
Prokopenko (D.Sc) and Y. Mozheiko (D.Sc), scientists at the School
of Philology and Language Communication of Siberian Federal University
analyzed data obtained while studying the specifics of using linguistic
units by patients affected by aphasia, including light, medium and acute
phases. They also collected audio and video material showing the
interaction between speech therapists and patients with aphasia
during rehabilitation classes.According to Director of the School of Philology and Language Communication Lyudmila Kulikova, project implementation results can influence the patient rehabilitation methodology and its main principles, as well as linguists’ view on the mental vocabulary’s organization and the linguistic system’s functioning. “Cognitive science in Russia and abroad focuses on these interdisciplinary matters,” she added.
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