Speech impairment in Down syndrome: A review

RD Kent, HK Vorperian - 2013 - ASHA
Speech production in Down syndrome (DS) is associated … on speech, voice, fluency and
prosody, and intelligibility in DS … Studies focused on speech intelligibility have been reported …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Speech intelligibility and childhood verbal apraxia in children with Down syndrome

L Kumin - Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2006 - down-syndrome.org
speech intelligibility, ie childhood verbal apraxia. One of the factors that affects speech
intelligibility for children with Down syndrome … the movements necessary for speech. Historically, …

[PDF][PDF] Speech difficulties and poor speech intelligibility in adults with down syndrome. A review of the literature.

MC Coppens-Hofman… - 2012 - repository.ubn.ru.nl
speech difficulties in adults with Down syndrome to identify causes and major determinants
of poor speech intelligibility … the following MEsH search terms: speech disorders, articulatory …

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

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. …

[HTML][HTML] Phonetic intelligibility testing in adults with Down syndrome

K Bunton, M Leddy, J Miller - Down's syndrome, research and …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… document speech intelligibility deficits for a group of five adult males with Down syndrome, …
to identify phonetic dimensions underlying reduced intelligibility. Phonetic error profiles were …

Phonological accuracy and intelligibility in connected speech of boys with fragile X syndrome or Down syndrome

E Barnes, J Roberts, SH Long, GE Martin, MC Berni… - 2009 - ASHA
… , we used an objective measure of connected speech intelligibility, the percentage of intelligible
words (PIW), which calculates the number of words understood by the listener divided by …

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 …

Intelligibility of speech in children with Down syndrome in natural settings: Parents' perspective

L Kumin - Perceptual and Motor skills, 1994 - journals.sagepub.com
… In typically developing children, speech intelligibility improves as a child matures, and by …
whether intelligibility of speech is a widespread problem for children with Down syndrome. The …