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Leveraging Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Learning of Morphological Structures in Preschool Children with Language Vulnerabilities

Stina Sundstedt, Mattias Wingren, Susanne Hagglund, Daniel Ventus · 2025

Preschool children with language vulnerabilities -- such as developmental language disorders or immigration related language challenges -- often require support to strengthen their expressive language…

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Supporting Preschool Emotional Development with AI-Powered Robots

Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Maria Dolon-Poza, Stefan Wagner · 2025

This study evaluates the integration of AI-powered robots in early childhood education, focusing on their impact on emotional self-regulation, engagement, and collaborative skills. A ten-week experime…

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Who Said What WSW 2.0? Enhanced Automated Analysis of Preschool Classroom Speech

Anchen Sun, Tiantian Feng, Gabriela Gutierrez, Juan J Londono, Anfeng Xu, Batya Elbaum, Shrikanth Narayanan, Lynn K Perry, Daniel S Messinger · 2025

This paper introduces an automated framework WSW2.0 for analyzing vocal interactions in preschool classrooms, enhancing both accuracy and scalability through the integration of wav2vec2-based speaker …

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Speech Recognition for Automatically Assessing Afrikaans and isiXhosa Preschool Oral Narratives

Christiaan Jacobs, Annelien Smith, Daleen Klop, Ondrej Klejch, Febe de Wet, Herman Kamper · 2025

We develop automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for stories told by Afrikaans and isiXhosa preschool children. Oral narratives provide a way to assess children's language development before they…

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Impact of Initialization on Intra-subject Pediatric Brain MR Image Registration: A Comparative Analysis between SyN ANTs and Deep Learning-Based Approaches

Andjela Dimitrijevic, Vincent Noblet, Benjamin De Leener · 2024

This study evaluates the performance of conventional SyN ANTs and learning-based registration methods in the context of pediatric neuroimaging, specifically focusing on intrasubject deformable registr…

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Who Said What? An Automated Approach to Analyzing Speech in Preschool Classrooms

Anchen Sun, Juan J Londono, Batya Elbaum, Luis Estrada, Roberto Jose Lazo, Laura Vitale, Hugo Gonzalez Villasanti, Riccardo Fusaroli, Lynn K Perry, Daniel S Messinger · 2024

Young children spend substantial portions of their waking hours in noisy preschool classrooms. In these environments, children's vocal interactions with teachers are critical contributors to their lan…

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Psychophysiological Arousal in Young Children Who Stutter: An Interpretable AI Approach

Harshit Sharma, Yi Xiao, Victoria Tumanova, Asif Salekin · 2022

The presented first-of-its-kind study effectively identifies and visualizes the second-by-second pattern differences in the physiological arousal of preschool-age children who do stutter (CWS) and who…

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Nonwords Pronunciation Classification in Language Development Tests for Preschool Children

Ilja Baumann, Dominik Wagner, Sebastian Bayerl, Tobias Bocklet · 2022

This work aims to automatically evaluate whether the language development of children is age-appropriate. Validated speech and language tests are used for this purpose to test the auditory memory. In …

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