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							ABOUT ME I am a volunteer assisted by a dedicated group of professionals trying to improve the lives of people suffering from speech and "related" disorders by leveraging my knowledge of computer technology and related experience. As people suffering from aphasia are, in current opinion, best able to provide feedback for statistical analysis they have become my first target group which is hoped will, over time, expand to include other conditions including dyspraxias. ABOUT WORDB WORDB is a project that seeks to combine computer science and established speech therapy practices in a self-improving fashion (recursion) for the benefit of Aphasia patients. The computer program under development uses difficulty-graded (motoric difficulty, word frequency, age of acquisition) and highly targeted words / linguistic constructs in a Subject-Verb-Object (Subject-Predicate-Object) fashion selected on highly specific criteria. I am currently working on a theory that uses word and semantic qualification by categorial density and proximity (as a measure of the amount of priming that is being delivered) and categorial relevance (to achieve outcome-centric therapy) to deliver measurable (and therefore statistically significant) repetition and structural priming. It is hoped that, over time, semantic constructs may be programmatically identified and taught to people with relevant disorders in such a manner that they act as semantic scaffolds between the linguistic parts of implicit and explicit memories. Both the theory and the software are only subject to the "creative commons" license as documented here.and may be requested at any time, used and distributed without payment. ABOUT APHASIA Definition (from accessscience.com) "Aphasia is a general term used to describe an impairment in the use of spoken or written language caused by brain injury, which cannot be accounted for by paralysis or incoordination of the articulatory organs, impairment of hearing or vision, impaired level of consciousness, or impaired motivation to communicate."







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	26 May 2009, transferred intellectual property rights to the WordB project. 17 March 2009, the LAN component tested succesfully @ 700 transactions / minute.