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Virtual Reality House for Rehabilitation of Aphasic Clients

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In this paper, the rationale for the development and the process of creating the Virtual ELA® (Everyday Life Activities)-House are described. The Virtual ELA®-House is an innovative therapy program designed for use with clients with language and speech disorders and/or with other cognitive neuropsychological disorders, which result from brain damage, e.g. aphasia, apraxia of speech, neglect, etc. The Virtual Reality setting is chosen as a modern and relevant therapy setting which imitates real everyday life scenarios. Computer supported cognitive and language therapy allows for repetitive application in the clinical and home setting which is necessary for learning to take place. The advantages of employing a software program based on a Virtual Environment, in particular the Virtual ELA® -House, are discussed.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary

    Milán Horváth, Csaba Dániel & Cecília Sik Lanyi

  2. Department of Linguistics and Communication Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

    Jacqueline Stark

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian David Cheok

  3. Media Education and Visualization Group, University of Education, Leibnizstr. 3, 88250, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

  4. School of Computing and Information Systems. CIS, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, T9S 3A3, Canada

    Maiga Chang

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Horváth, M., Dániel, C., Stark, J., Lanyi, C.S. (2009). Virtual Reality House for Rehabilitation of Aphasic Clients. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Chang, M. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11245-4_20

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