Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from December 2006

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from December 2006

Preface to special issue.(Editorial)
December 1, 2006... This special issue of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology includes 17 articles based on presentations at the Conference on Motor Speech, held in March 2006 in Austin, Texas. This biennial conference covers topics in both normal and...

Effects of multitalker noise on conversational speech intensity in Parkinson's disease.
December 1, 2006... The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of changes in the level of background noise on the regulation of conversational speech intensity in participants with hypophonia due to Parkinson's disease (PD). Ten PD participants and...

Vowel harmonic amplitude differences in a speaker with hypokinetic dysarthria before and after treatment.
December 1, 2006... A speaker with hypokinetic dysarthria secondary to idiopathic Parkinson's disease was studied before and after Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) to evaluate treatment-related changes in acoustic vowel spectra during connected speech. He...

Facial kinematics of a speaker with a palatal lift following brainstem impairment.
December 1, 2006... This study examined the impact of palatal lift intervention on articulatory kinematics for a speaker with acquired velopharyngeal incompetence (VPI) following brainstem tumor excision. Articulatory adaptations to VPI management may be expected...

Perceptual analysis of speech in multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy.
December 1, 2006... Dysarthria is a frequent and early-appearing manifestation of the two most common Parkinson plus syndromes, multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). In both conditions, dysarthria is usually described as mixed,...

Influence of alphabet cues on listeners' ability to identify sound segments in sentences produced by speakers with moderate and severe dysarthria.
December 1, 2006... This study examined the effects of experimentally imposed alphabet cues on the perception of individual sound segments relative to a no cues control condition. Eight speakers with dysarthria and 128 listeners participated in this study. Results...

An investigation into the influences of age, pathology, and cognition on speech production.
December 1, 2006... Changes in speech rate have long been identified as a prominent sign of dysarthria. At the same time, such changes have been reported in the literature on normal aging. This study aimed to provide information on the speech rate behavior in the...

Perceptual analysis of consonant production in multisyllabic words in apraxia of speech: a comparison across repeated sampling times.
December 1, 2006... This investigation was designed to examine the number of errors and types of errors by syllable position in productions of three-syllable words produced by a speaker with acquired apraxia of speech and aphasia. Consonant productions were...

Construction of a set of unpredictable sentences for intelligibility testing.
December 1, 2006... To separate intelligibility from comprehensibility, listeners should have minimal linguistically predictive information when transcribing sentences. Current intelligibility tests for dysarthria contain predictable words and phrases that may...

Tongue strength and speech intelligibility in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.
December 1, 2006... Tongue weakness is presumed to contribute to reduced articulatory precision and speech intelligibility, but studies of dysarthric speakers do not consistently find a correlation between decreases in maximal tongue strength and speech measures....

Using computer games to mediate caregiver-child communication for children with severe dysarthria.
December 1, 2006... The study of vocal control in children with dysarthria typically involves word/phrase repetition or picture naming/description tasks. Moreover, the child's speech production abilities and the listener's ability to decipher the intended message...

A computer software prototype for monitoring Speech Motor Learning performance in (childhood) apraxia of speech (technical report).
December 1, 2006... Many treatment programs incorporate principles of motor learning when working with individuals with motor speech disorders (e.g., childhood apraxia of speech, adult apraxia of speech). These principles often involve practice and include...

Rhythmic disturbance in ataxic dysarthria: a comparison of different measures and speech tasks.
December 1, 2006... A number of rhythm measures have been developed for different speaker groups and speech materials. Not all of these different measures have been applied to speech samples from speakers with ataxic dysarthria, a speech disorder in which a...

Treatment of severe childhood apraxia of speech: a treatment efficacy study.
December 1, 2006... This article reports data regarding the efficacy of treatment for four young children with severe childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). A single subject, multiple baseline design across behaviors was used for experimental control and replicated...

Speech in Parkinson's disease following subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation: preliminary results.
December 1, 2006... Impairment of speech can affect the majority of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS) is an effective treatment for the improvement of limb movements, but its effect on speech is...

Treatment Guidelines for Apraxia of Speech: lessons for future research.
December 1, 2006... The Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) Writing Committee of Treatment Guidelines for Apraxia of Speech (AOS) prepared a technical report containing evidence-based guidelines for the management of AOS. The...

Hemisphere-specific effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on speaking rate and articulatory accuracy of syllable repetitions in Parkinson's disease.
December 1, 2006... This study tested the hypothesis that left versus right deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) would have differential effects on speech. Twenty right-handed individuals with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) underwent...

Contributing factors to listener effort for dysarthric speech.
December 1, 2006... The primary aim of this study was to determine contributing factors to listeners' judgment of effort when listening to speakers with dysarthria. Thirty-three Cantonese speakers with dysarthria, aged 14 to 78 years, provided the speech samples....