On the Use of Speech Technologies to Achieve Inclusive Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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Author(s): Ana Pérez Pérez (University of Granada, Spain), Zoraida Callejas Carrión (University of Granada, Spain), Ramón López-Cózar Delgado (University of Granada, Spain)and David Griol Barres (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 12
Source title: Technologies for Inclusive Education: Beyond Traditional Integration Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): David Griol Barres (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain), Zoraida Callejas Carrión (University of Granada, Spain)and Ramón López-Cózar Delgado (University of Granada, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2530-3.ch008

Keywords: Digital Divide & Developing Countries / Educational Technologies / Government & Law / Information Science Reference

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New technologies have demonstrated a great potential to improve the social, labour, and educational integration of people with special needs. That is why there is a special interest of academia and industry to develop tools to assist this people, improving their autonomy and quality of life. Usually, intellectual disabilities are linked with speech and language disorders. In this chapter, the authors present a review on the efforts directed towards designing and developing speech technologies adapted to people with intellectual disabilities. Also, they describe the work they have conducted to study how to gather speech resources, which can be used to build speech-based systems that help them to communicate more effectively.

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