Backward and simultaneous masking measured in children with language-learning impairments who received intervention with Fast ForWord or Laureate Learning Systems software.
The developers of a computer-assisted language intervention program called Fast ForWord (FFW) have claimed that their software changes temporal processing abilities as a result of specialized modifications to the acoustic and temporal properties of the speech signal within the program. This pilot st...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 258 - 269 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Aug2001
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