HCSNet Future Computer Applications for Managing Speech and Language Disorders Workshop

Details Title: Future Computer Applications for Managing Speech and Language Disorders Workshop
Date: 19th September 2008
Workshop Time: 9am - 5pm
Location: The Centre for Clinical Research, Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, Herston (Brisbane, Queensland)
Contact: Dr David Copland d.copland@uq.edu.au
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Description

The ARC Human Communication Sciences Network (HCSNet) is holding a workshop that will focus on computer applications for assessing and treating speech, language, and communication disorders including current proven methods and potential future applications from other fields (e.g. computer-based language learning). New computer technologies may enable more intensive delivery of therapy than traditional modes and may address the need for quick, objective and reliable measures of speech and language function that are clinically useful for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment monitoring. This workshop considers advances have been made in the development of computer-based applications across a range of disciplines (e.g. virtual reality, speech recognition) that may be utilised in the management of both developmental and adult communication disorders. The workshop will provide a forum for interactions between a range of disciplines including speech pathology clinicians and researchers, computer scientists, linguistics, software developers, engineers, speech scientists, occupational and rehabilitation therapists, and cognitive psychologists.

 

Invited Speakers

International keynote speakers include:

Professor Ron Cole (University of Colorado, USA) who has developed virtual therapists for teaching and assessing reading in children and treating speech and language production and comprehension in aphasia (http://cslr.colorado.edu/beginweb/vt_th/vt_th.html).

Professor Valerie Hazan (University College London) who has been researching auditory/visual computer-based perceptual training for language learning (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/val/home.html).

 

Potential topics of interest

  • Automated speech recognition
  • Telerehabilitation
  • Virtual therapy and teaching
  • Automated text analysis
  • Human-Computer Interactions
  • Augmentative and alternative computer-based communication
  • Computer-based speech, language, and reading treatment.
  • Biofeedback
  • Computerised discourse analysis
  • Computer-based language learning applications

 

Submission Format

Please submit a title and an abstract (up to 250 words) to David Copland (d.copland@uq.edu.au) by the 29th of August, indicating (1) if you are a student, (2) if you are a member of HCSNet, and (3) if you wish to be considered for a travel bursary.

 

Registration

To register for this workshop please download the registration form and return to Chris Cassidy (ccassidy@ics.mq.edu.au) by the 29th August 2008 (for catering and planning purposes).

 

Funding and Registration Costs

The workshop is funded by the ARC Human Communication Sciences Network (HCSNet) and attendance for undergraduate and PhD Students is free, provided you submit a registration form by the closing date. Registration is free for all members of HCSNet (join for free at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/register). If you are a professional graduate who is not presenting and is not a member of HCSNet, there is a registration fee of $50. A number of travel bursaries (up to $500 each) will be available for those who have a paper accepted for presentation and who will be travelling to Brisbane from interstate or regional Queensland.

 

Important Dates

Abstract submission: 29th August 2008

Registration deadline: 29th August 2008

Workshop: 19th September 2008

 

Workshop Organisers

Dr David Copland, HCSNet Priority Area Leader, Human Communication Disorders

A/Prof Deborah Theodoros (University of Queensland)

 

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