Recently added articles from Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology:
Churkendoose.(The Churkendoose; Part Chicken, Turkey, Duck, and Goose )(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... <Pre> It depends on how you look at things ... Ray Bolger (1947) </Pre> Once upon a time, in a land of icicles and rabbits, not too far from the shores of Lake Superior, lived a few hardy people who scratched away in the mines and forests and on the railroads in a sometimes ...
Speech rate deficits in individuals with Parkinson's disease: a review of the literature.(Tutorial)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This article reviews the published evidence base related to speech rate deficits exhibited by dysarthric speakers with Parkinson's disease. Following a brief review of Parkinson's disease and hypokinetic dysarthria, results of an extensive literature review are presented ....
The feasibility of establishing agreement between laboratories for measures of oropharyngeal structural movements.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Kinematic analysis, also commonly referred to as biomechanical analysis, of the swallow is used to measure movement of oropharyngeal structures over time. Two laboratory directors who have used kinematic analysis in their research collaborated to determine the feasibility of establishing ...
Central auditory and visual processing in Huntington's disease.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Central auditory and visual processing was examined in 9 persons with confirmed Huntington's disease (HD), 9 age-matched controls (A-MC), and 17 younger controls (YC) during text-word (TWV) and picture-word (PWV) verification tasks. Participants were presented with an orthographic ...
Early feeding abilities in children with cerebral palsy: a parental report study.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The goals of this study were to (1) describe the feeding skills of young children with cerebral palsy (CP) and (2) elucidate the type and severity of feeding problems for children with and without oral-motor involvement. Parents of 37 children (16 females, 21 males) with CP, who ...
Fundamental frequency and intensity mean and variability before and after two behavioral treatments for aprosodia.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Emerging data suggest that aprosodia may be amenable to behavioral treatment. This study investigated the use of acoustic analysis of speech to quantify response to two speech treatments previously judged to have an effect based on perceptual assessment in three participants with primarily ...
Preface to special issue.(Conference notes)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Since 1982, the Conference on Motor Speech has provided clinicians and researchers the opportunity to learn and perhaps to change. This special issue of the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology includes 17 articles based on work presented at the Conference on Motor Speech, held in ...
Speech-to-noise levels and conversational intelligibility in hypophonia and Parkinson's disease.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The present study examined the effect of multitalker background noise on speech-to-noise levels and conversational speech intelligibility in individuals with hypophonia due to Parkinson's disease (PD). Twenty-five participants with hypophonia and PD and 15 normal control participants were ...
Temporal and spatial variability in speakers with Parkinson's disease and Friedreich's ataxia.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Speech variability in groups of speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and with Friedreich's (FA) ataxia was compared with healthy controls. Speakers repeated the same phrase 20 times at one of two rates (fast or habitual). A nonlinear analysis of variability was performed that used some ...
Treatment of severe childhood apraxia of speech in a 12-year-old male with CHARGE association.
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study employed a single subject, multiple baseline across behaviors design to examine the effects of dynamic temporal and tactile cueing (DTTC). The participant is a 12-year-old male with CHARGE association, a complex genetic disorder. He exhibited moderate mental retardation and ...
Levels of speech usage: a self-report scale for describing how people use speech.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... People use speech in a variety of ways to fulfill life roles and responsibilities. Documenting speech usage is critical in clinical work to plan relevant intervention goals for individual clients, and in clinical research to better describe participant characteristics. A few voice-use ...
Formant steadiness: treatment-related changes in speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria.
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study was designed to investigate the effect of intensive voice reatment (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment [R]) on formant steadiness in 10 speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria associated with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and parkinsonian syndromes. Digital acoustic analysis was used ...
Speech intelligibility in a speaker with idiopathic Parkinson's disease before and after treatment.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... A speaker with hypokinetic dysarthria secondary to idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) was studied before and after Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT [R]) to evaluate treatment-related changes in intelligibility of connected speech. He presented with reduced loudness and a weak, breathy ...
Automatic landmark analysis of dysarthric speech.
Dec 01, 2008; ... The present study sought to characterize dysarthric speech in terms of acoustic landmarks. Landmark analysis provides a means to relate acoustic events to underlying articulatory behavior thereby allowing for comparisons between highly intelligible speech and dysarthric speech along a set ...
Madonna Expiratory Respiratory Trainer (MERT): a self-practice device for improving the control of alveolar pressure (technical note).
Dec 01, 2008; ... Reduced respiratory drive for speech occurs in conjunction with a range of neurological conditions. Traditional interventions to increase respiratory drive may include laryngeal aerodynamic instrumentation, manometers, or use of a "blow bottle" (Yorkston, Beukelman, Strand, & Bell, 1999) ....
Using motor learning guided theory and augmentative and alternative communication to improve speech production in profound apraxia: a case example.(Case study)
Dec 01, 2008; ... A 49-year-old man with profound apraxia of speech and moderate nonfluent aphasia participated in a two-pronged treatment that combined the motor learning guided (MLG) approach for apraxia of speech and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). When he began the treatment protocol, ...
Can IOPI be used to measure tongue pressure for speech sounds?(Iowa Oral Performance Instrument )
Dec 01, 2008; ... Tongue pressure during speech is of great interest to researchers of normal and disordered speech. Currently, the best devices for measuring pressure during speech require implantation of transducers into palatal appliances constructed for each participant (e.g., Searl, Evitts, & Davis, ...
Intelligibility and attitudes toward a speech synthesizer vocoded using dysarthric vocalizations.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Speakers with dysarthria who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) aids may rely on text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis as their means of interaction. Despite a variety of voices, clinicians tend to use the adult male voice given its superior intelligibility. While this practice ...
Assessment of orofacial strength in patients with dysarthria.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Assessment of orofacial weakness is common during the evaluation of patients with suspected dysarthria. This study addressed the validity of clinical assessments of orofacial eakness by comparing clinical (subjective) ratings to instrumental (objective) measures. Forty-four adults referred ...
Effects of cognitive-linguistic load on parameters of gait in Parkinson disease.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Multitasking has become a way of life, from operating multiple software packages simultaneously on a computer, to carrying on a conversation on a cell phone while driving. Perhaps one of the most common dual tasks that we perform is talking while walking. In isolation, neither task would ...