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Article: Monitoring speaking rate by telephone for persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Article from:
- Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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This clinical note describes strategies to monitor the speaking rate of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in order to predict the timing of speech deterioration so that augmentative and alternative communication technology might be acquired in a timely manner. Speech samples produced by seven participants were audio recorded simultaneously onsite and over a standard analog telephone line. Speaking rate was measured using the TALLY (Yorkston, Beukelman, & Tice, 1998) and Cool Edit Pro (Syntrillium Software, 2002) computer software programs. Results reveal that the mean speaking rates recorded over a telephone line were within 0.5 words per minute of the ...
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