This position paper offers a perspective on the long-standing debate concerning the role of
oromotor, nonverbal gestures in understanding typical and disordered speech motor control …

This article reviews the extant studies of the relation of oromotor nonspeech activities to
speech production. The relevancy of nonspeech oral motor behaviors to speech motor …

Background: Ziegler (2003) reviews neural and behavioural evidence to support a task-
dependent model of motor control, whereby motor speech disorders represent impairment of …

Background: This work was motivated by recent attempts at explaining apraxia of speech as
a general motor disorder which involves both speech and nonspeech movements Ballard …

In a recent review article Speech motor control is task-specific. Evidence from dysarthria and
apraxia of speech. Aphasiology, 2003, 17 1), 3ą36) I discussed the claim that neuromotor …

The primary objective of this position paper is to assess the theoretical and empirical support
that exists for the Mayo Clinic view of motor speech disorders in general, and for oromotor …

The aim of this article is to explicate the uniqueness of the motor activity implied in spoken
language production and to emphasize how important it is, from a theoretical and a clinical …

Understanding of the behavioural, cognitive and neural underpinnings of speech production
is of interest theoretically, and is important for understanding disorders of speech production …

This paper presents a historical overview of the Mayo Clinic perspective on motor speech
disorders, and argues that this perspective has served its purpose and should be …

Speaking is one of the most complex skills that humans perform. In our everyday
communication, we transfer sentences, concepts, thoughts, and ideas. How though, is the …