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When Is a Child’s Speech “Behind”? New Growth Curves Can Help Answer That
One of the hardest questions parents ask is whether their child’s speech is developing on track. WISC Lab researchers developed intelligibility growth curves for typically developing children between ages 2;6 and nearly…
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Forced Alignment in Child Speech: What Researchers Should Know Before Using It
Automated forced alignment tools — widely used to time-align transcripts with audio — were built primarily on adult speech. WISC Lab research has documented how alignment errors affect automated pronunciation scoring in…
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How Well Does Speech at Age 2 Predict Communication at Age 9–10?
New research from the WISC Lab followed children with cerebral palsy from early childhood into late elementary school. The findings, published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools, show that…
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Applying AI/Automation in Clinical environment
Here’s an infographic on the various cutting edge resources that are finding their place in clinical and research workflows. This is important because…
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Recently Discovered #1
Here’s what we recently discovered in the realm of Speech Language Pathology, this digram depicts XYZ and makes it easier to understand ZYX.