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Ultrasound Images of the Tongue: A Tutorial for Assessment and Remediation of Speech Sound Errors
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2017
Ultrasound imaging can be used to display the shape and movements of the tongue in real time during speech. The images can be used to determine the nature of speech sound errors. Visual feedback of the tongue can be used to facilitate improvements in speech sound production in clinical populations.
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Glass-Based Devices to Generate Drops and Emulsions
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2022
Here, a protocol to manufacture glass-based microfluidic devices used for generating highly monodisperse emulsions with controlled drop size is presented.
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A Gradient-generating Microfluidic Device for Cell Biology
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2007
We describe a protocol for the microfabrication of the gradient-generating microfluidic device that can generate spatial and temporal gradients in well-defined microenvironment. In this approach, the gradient-generating microfluidic device can be used to study directed cell migration, embryogenesis, wound healing, and cancer metastasis.
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Generating Neuromuscular Junctions Using a Microfluidic Device
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2025
The video demonstrates the formation of neuromuscular junctions using a microfluidic device. Neural precursor cells and muscle progenitor cells are seeded into different wells within the device and left to mature into motor neurons and myotubes, respectively. The creation of a volume and chemical gradient leads to the development of active neuromuscular junctions.
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Study Design for Navigated Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Speech Cortical Mapping
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2023
Navigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is a highly efficient non-invasive tool for mapping speech-related cortical areas. It helps in designing brain surgery and speeds up the direct cortical stimulation conducted during the surgery. This report describes how to perform speech cortical mapping reliably for preoperative evaluation and research.
FAQs
In behavior science, the device can function as a communication alternative when a person’s needs, choices, or ideas are difficult to express through natural speech. By making those messages available through a selectable response, it may help connect communication with social interaction and offer an alternative to behavior that occurs when communication is difficult.
Input access determines how a person selects a message, not what the message means. Touchscreens, switches, keyboards, and eye gaze provide different routes for choosing words, symbols, letters, or programmed messages. This flexibility matters because the communication system can support users with different ways of interacting with the device.
Efficiency matters because communication is more useful when a person can select a relevant message rather than remain without an accessible response. In behavioral contexts, an available and efficient alternative may support functional communication, participation, and independence. Researchers can therefore examine whether communication support changes social interaction or other behavior.
Selection can be made through touchscreen input, switch access, keyboard entry, or eye gaze. The available vocabulary may include words, symbols, letters, or programmed messages. Together, these access routes and message formats provide practical means for expressing needs, choices, and ideas through synthesized or recorded speech.
It is relevant when investigators or clinicians want to examine communication as part of social interaction and behavior. The device can provide an observable way for a person to express needs, choices, or ideas, allowing attention to how communication supports affect participation, independence, and behavior.
Relevant outcomes include whether the person can participate more readily, communicate with greater independence, and use an alternative when communication is difficult. Researchers and clinicians may also examine changes in social interaction and behavior, keeping the focus on how the support affects functional communication.