Projects
Models of Pathological Speech for Diagnosis and Speech Recognition KU Leuven
Evidence Based Practice in schisis: how can we help speech therapists provide optimal speech therapy care? HOGENT
Evaluation of the effectiveness of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) speech training programs on velopharyngeal closure, speech intelligibility, hypernasality and health-related quality of life inpatients with cleft palate. Ghent University
This project meets the need for evidence-based, cost-effective logopaedic practice in patients with an isolated cleft palate to eliminate passive speech disorders resulting from velopharyngeal insufficiency. The effectiveness of short-term intensive speech therapy programs using CPAP or SOVT exercises with a ventilation mask on velopharyngeal closure, speech intelligibility, hypernasality and HRQoL will be evaluated using a blocked-randomized ...
Sabbatical Jan Wouters: Speech and Hearing: basic study for the preparation of a grant application and a scientific book KU Leuven
In the last years of my academic career I want to start with an intense study period in which I want to prepare and outline future lines of my research (and that are important for the future of hearing research at KU Leuven). Intensive study work and a number of study visits to foreign colleagues should provide the necessary input to develop an innovative and up-to-date research program for the coming years. This sabbatical can culminate in a ...
Speech error monitoring: comparing, interrupting and repairing Ghent University
Self-monitoring is the set of processes by which we detect errors, and adjust or re-plan our behaviour when things go wrong. This project addresses questions concerning all three components of monitoring: comparing and detecting, interrupting, and repairing.
Lateralization patterns in (a)typical speech dominants Ghent University
The human brain processes cognitive functions asymmetrically but it remains surprisingly unclear how functions co-lateralize, how large the variability in the degree of laterality is, and what consequences atypical lateralization has for interhemispheric communication and task performance. The current project aims to chart the laterality of language (sub)processes (speech production, reading, auditory processing) and non-linguistic functions ...