Improvement of Speech and Its Psychological Correlates in Deaf Persons and Development of Microprocessor-Based Aid

摘要

The work has demonstrated that a computer-based aid can be used successfully under classroom conditions. It has proved reliable, simple to use by teachers of the deaf and acceptable to the children. During the project technical development continued by the production of a microprocessor-based version, and this together with current trends in microprocessor technology, demonstrates that the price of computer-based aids will shortly reach that of other instrumentation used in this area. The assessment is probably the first extended assessment of a speech training aid and was carried out over a three-year period. An experimental group (E) was trained during this period, using the aid, and a control group (C) of matched subjects had training using a similar programme but without use of the aid.