Speech profile in Down syndrome: speech apraxia x speech disorder of musculoskeletal origin

JF Coêlho, IC Delgado, MRD Rosa, GÂS Alves - Revista Cefac, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
… In individuals with apraxia, the lack of fluency in speech is … of fluency in speech apraxia
associated with Down syndrome, … , with lower impairments to speech fluency. The results found …

Semantic verbal fluency in youth with Down syndrome: analysis of conventional and contextual cluster formation

EK Schworer, S Belizaire, EK Hoffman, AJ Esbensen - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… are common in youth with Down syndrome (DS). Verbal fluency is one method to investigate
these constructs. We examined semantic verbal fluency responses to determine patterns in …

Auditory-perceptual features of speech in children and adults with Down syndrome: A speech profile analysis

RD Kent, J Eichhorn, EM Wilson, Y Suk, DM Bolt… - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
… to determine how the speech disorder profiles in Down syndrome (DS) relate to reduced
intelligibility, atypical overall quality, and impairments in the subsystems of speech production (…

Language and executive functioning in young adults with Down syndrome

…, SL Hartley, SP Godar, S Diel… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study examined the association between executive functioning and language
in young adults with Down syndrome (DS). Method Nineteen young adults with DS (aged …

Narrative and prosodic skills in children and adolescents with Down syndrome and typically developing children

P Zanchi, L Zampini, F Panzeri - International Journal of Speech …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
speech within the narration), to account for the possible differences in the fluency of speech
… studies on morphosyntactic problems in children with Down syndrome (eg Hogan-Brown et …

Integrating familiar listeners and speech recognition technologies into augmentative and alternative communication intervention for adults with down syndrome …

C Holyfield, K Drager - Assistive Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… reported difficulties with rate of speech, fluency, and voice. … the natural speech of individuals
with Down syndrome in AAC … consistency of speech from adults with Down syndrome. The …

PRAUTOCAL corpus: a corpus for the study of Down syndrome prosodic aspects

D Escudero-Mancebo, M Corrales-Astorgano… - Language Resources …, 2022 - Springer
… In this paper, we add subjective evaluations following a rubric that includes information
about fluency, intonation curve, speech rate, intelligibility and correctness and word omissions. …

Differences and similarities in predictors of expressive vocabulary development between children with Down syndrome and young typically developing children

KAB Næss, J Ostad, E Nygaard - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Furthermore, children with Down syndrome also tend to have weak speech sound …
characteristics affect the speaker’s intelligibility, impeding articulation and fluency [90]. Children with …

Expressive language development in adolescents with Down syndrome and fragile X syndrome: change over time and the role of family-related factors

L del Hoyo Soriano, AJ Thurman, D Harvey… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… It is well known that individuals with Down syndrome (DS) or fragile X syndrome (FXS)
demonstrate expressive language difficulties beginning early in childhood. It is less clear, however…

Spoken language outcome measures for treatment studies in Down syndrome: Feasibility, practice effects, test-retest reliability, and construct validity of variables …

AJ Thurman, JO Edgin, SL Sherman, A Sterling… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate expressive language sampling (ELS)
as a procedure for generating spoken language outcome measures for treatment research …