Speech perception studies typically rely on trained research assistants to score orthographic
listener transcripts for words correctly identified. While the accuracy of the human scoring …

Communication confidence is a construct that has not been explored in the aphasia
literature. Recently, national and international organizations have endorsed broader …

This is the third book in the series “Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties” and is based
on research and practice with school-age children with persisting speech and associated …

Sentences recorded by four speakers with dysarthria and two control speakers were
presented to listeners at three different rates: habitual, a 30% slower rate and a 30% higher …

Purpose The aim of this study was to examine the effect of loud and slow speech cues on
younger and older listeners' comprehension of dysarthric speech, specifically,(a) whether …

Purpose: We proposed and tested a causal instantiation of the World Health Organization's
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework, linking …

Speech rate reduction is a global speech therapy approach for speech deficits in
Parkinson's disease (PD) that has the potential to result in changes across multiple speech …

Objective Dysarthric speech of persons with Huntington disease (HD) is typically described
as hyperkinetic; however, studies suggest that dysarthria can vary and resemble patterns in …

The effect of two types of temporal alterations, paced and synthetic, on the intelligibility of
parkinsonian dysarthric speech was investigated. Six speakers with idiopathic Parkinson's …

The objective of this review is to make treatment techniques published in the literature more
easily accessible to clinicians in the field of stable dysarthria. This was achieved by …