Single-word speech intelligibility in children and adults with Down syndrome

A Wild, HK Vorperian, RD Kent, DM Bolt… - … Journal of Speech …, 2018 - ASHA
… production to intelligibility. The methods used clarify the phonetic basis of reduced intelligibility,
… Reduced speech intelligibility in persons with Down syndrome (DS) frequently results in …

Vowel acoustics and speech intelligibility in young adults with Down syndrome

M Carl, RD Kent, ES Levy, DH Whalen - … of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2020 - ASHA
Speech production deficits and reduced intelligibility are frequently noted in individuals with
Down syndrome (… and relates these findings to perceptual analysis of speech intelligibility. …

Speech and motor speech disorders and intelligibility in adolescents with Down syndrome

EM Wilson, L Abbeduto, SM Camarata… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Speech intelligibility challenges are a major concern for individuals with Down syndrome (…
In a widely-cited survey, 95% of parents of children with DS were concerned about their child’s

Measuring speech comprehensibility in students with Down syndrome

PJ Yoder, T Woynaroski, S Camarata - … of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2016 - ASHA
… We use the term speech comprehensibility as opposed to the more commonly used term
speech intelligibility because at the measurement level, intelligibility has been defined …

Treating speech comprehensibility in students with Down syndrome

PJ Yoder, S Camarata, T Woynaroski - … of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2016 - ASHA
… used term speech intelligibility because, at the measurement level, intelligibility has been …
For example, some researchers measure speech intelligibility exclusively in contexts in …

Intelligibility in Down syndrome: Effect of measurement method and listener experience

D O'Leary, A Lee, C O'Toole… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
speech intelligibility assessment have not yet been investigated in people with Down syndrome
(… Reduced speech intelligibility is a common characteristic in several clinical populations, …

Perceptual and acoustic evaluation of speech production in Down syndrome: A case series

D O'Leary, A Lee, C O'Toole… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Down syndrome (DS) can experience difficulties with speech production that can impact on
speech intelligibility. In … of speech production that could affect speech intelligibility in DS. The …

Motor speech skills in children with Down syndrome: A descriptive study

V Rupela, SL Velleman… - … journal of speech …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… Motor speech characteristics of children with Down syndrome (… more infrequently, as Childhood
Apraxia of Speech (CAS). The … The intelligibility scores in the present study are similar to …

Speech therapy in adolescents with Down syndrome: In pursuit of communication as a fundamental human right

S Rvachew, M Folden - International Journal of Speech-Language …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… of speech intelligibility by persons with Down syndrome … with Down syndrome can make
changes in speech accuracy, … , speech intelligibility, given 6 weeks of intensive speech therapy. …

Speech disfluencies in children with Down Syndrome

K Eggers, S Van Eerdenbrugh - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2018 - Elsevier
… the speech disfluencies of a group, only consisting of children with Down Syndrome between
Speech intelligibility was noticeably diminished in most of the participants with an average …