Parkinson's disease (PD) results from neurodegenerative processes leading to alteration of
motor functions. Most motor symptoms respond well to pharmacological and neurosurgical …

This chapter focuses on the characteristics and effectiveness of clear speech (CS) aimed at
enhancing intelligibility for adult interlocutors with perceptual difficulties arising from hearing …

Abstract Background More than 6,000,000 individuals worldwide are diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease (PD). Nearly 90% develop speech signs that may substantially impair …

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to create an empirical classification system for
speech severity in patients with dysarthria secondary to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

Purpose This study obtained judgments of sentence intelligibility using orthographic
transcription for comparison with previously reported intelligibility judgments obtained using …

Purpose The authors investigated how different variants of clear speech affect segmental
and suprasegmental acoustic measures of speech in speakers with Parkinson's disease and …

Purpose: Ten years after Miller and Lowit's (2014) groundbreaking book providing a cross-
linguistic perspective on motor speech disorders, we ask where we are regarding dysarthria …

Purpose SPEAK OUT! and The LOUD Crowd is a standardized speech therapy program of
12 individual treatments combined with ongoing weekly group sessions for individuals with …

Purpose: Unexpected and sustained manipulations of auditory feedback during speech
production result in “reflexive” and “adaptive” responses, which can shed light on feedback …

Purpose Children with dysarthria secondary to cerebral palsy may experience reduced
speech intelligibility and diminished communicative participation. However, minimal …