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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1998
William M. Jenkins, Pacifica, CA (US);
Michael M. Merzenich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven L. Miller, Pacifica, CA (US);
Bret E. Peterson, Lafayette, CA (US);
Paula Tallal, Lumberville, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method for adaptively training a subject, using auditory processing of phonemes within command sentences, to improve the subject's listening comprehension, grammatical parsing, and serial memory is provided. The method utilizes a number of training installments, each designed for testing a particular aspect of the subject's language skills, all tied together by a common story. More specifically, installments are provided that narrate a story, test the subject's listening comprehension to the narrated story, test the subject's ability to grammatically parse increasingly difficult sentence structures, and test the subject's ability to select and manipulate graphical objects in response to auditory commands. Speech processing is used for the narration, as well as for commands within each test to allow the subject to more easily distinguish between similar sounding phonemes. As the subject improves his/her ability to correctly respond to the tests, the amount of processing applied to the commands is reduced, ultimately to the level of normal speech.