Wearable real-time and adaptive feedback device to face the stuttering: a knowledge-based telehealthcare proposal.
Despite first written references to permanent developmental stuttering occurred more than 2500 years ago, the mechanisms underlying this disorder are still unknown. This paper briefly reviews stuttering causal hypothesis and treatments, and presents the requirements that a new stuttering therapeutic device should verify. As a result of the analysis, an adaptive altered auditory feedback device based on a multimodal intelligent monitor, within the framework of a knowledge-based telehealthcare system, is presented. The subsequent discussion, based partly on the successful outcomes of a similar intelligent monitor, suggests that this novel device is feasible and could help to fill the gap between research and clinic.
Prado
Manuel
M
Biomedical Engineering Group, Network Center of Biomedical Research in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-TEC) and University of Seville, Spain. mpradovelasco@ieee.org
Roa
Laura M
LM
D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005246:Feedback; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D013070:Speech Therapy; D013342:Stuttering / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D017216:Telemedicine