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Tong He Rehab
Tong He Rehab
Abstract—launched from the establishment of 3D tongue model important role in pronunciation. Due to hearing loss, obstructed
in this thesis, the tongue rehabilitation training method of language development, small tongue movement extent, ossified
lingualis, inflexible rotation, incapability to keep up with
hearing-impaired child combined by 3D modeling technology and
language beat and pronounce or inaccurate pronunciation,
sensor technology is applied and the method can reveal the tongue training is an important link of language rehabilitation
tongue motor process of average person when pronouncing, training and the basis for learning manner of articulation and
guide the hearing-impaired child to do tongue pronunciation articulation skill and developing favorable pronunciation habits
training, overcome the problem of non-visibility of tongue so as to lay good foundation for speech training of hearing-
impaired child[2,3]. The key aspect of tongue training is
training process in speech training of hearing-impaired child,
tongue movement and the traditional tongue training method is
evaluate rehabilitation training degree and cover the shortage of to organize the hearing-impaired children to do tongue exercise,
no feedback diagnosis in the rehabilitation training of hearing- such as stretching tongue, resisting cheek and overturning
impaired so as to enhance the efficiency of hearing-impaired tongue so that the children can improve tongue stretching,
child pronunciation training and accuracy of pronunciation flexibility, limpness and validity. However, such training mode
training.
is boring and makes the children boring and thus they lose
patience for training, therefore, interestingness should be added
in training process and visual stimulation should be given to
Keywords—Hearing-impaired Child; Tongue Training;3D children through role[4,5,6], dialogue and plot so that the
Modeling Technology; Visualization Model children can speak and play while working and the process
should be simple and amusing and inconvenience and baldness
should be avoided. In addition, the traditional training method
has no feedback and thus the rehabilitation training degree and
I. INTRODUCTION effect can not be grasped[7]. Hence, a kind of tongue training
method of hearing disorder children is studied based on
Due to hearing disorder, the language competence of visualization model in this thesis[8], 3D modeling technology
hearing-impaired child lags far behind the sane child of the and sensor technology are combined in this method and
same age and the words of hearing-impaired child can not be authentic motion model of tongue in the oral cavity is
understood by average people or are difficult to understand and established to simulate the motion state of tongue and its fitting
thus language rehabilitation training should be conducted on degree with the upper jaw when average person pronounces so
hearing-impaired child, it has been proved that most of the as to guide the hearing-impaired child to exercise
hearing-impaired children can grasp verbal language through pronunciation and overcome the non-visibility problem of
wearing appropriate assisted listening devices and scientific tongue training process in speech training of hearing-impaired
rehabilitation training. The language rehabilitation training of child; besides, the system can evaluate rehabilitation training
hearing-impaired child includes Ԙ respiratory training; ԙ degree and cover the shortage of no feedback diagnosis in
Tongue training; Ԛ lip training; ԛ nasal training; Ԝ throat rehabilitation training of hearing-impaired child so as to
training;ԝphoneme training;Ԟspelling training;ԟfour tones enhance the efficiency of pronunciation training of hearing-
training[1] and tongue is both an important part of vocal organ impaired child and accuracy of pronunciation training.
and the most flexible part in oral organ and also it plays an
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x if unqualified, encourage the hearing-impaired child
and replay the correct 3D tongue model pronunciation
process, infer the mistakes during pronunciation
process through video analysis and the system return
to the last training link or choose to log out.
During the whole learning process, the system can
establish trainee database, record the learning situation of
trainee, and summarize and appraise the pronunciation
process of the trainee and identify the language training
level of the trainee through evaluation.
The system flow is shown in figure 5.
Select tongue
pronunciation training
sessions
Showing tongue to
pronounce process model
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT [9] Chen Zhixiang.Researeh of Virtual TOngue MOVementS and MOUth
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