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 …

Background: Differential diagnosis and treatment planning of developmental speech
disorders (DSD) remains a major challenge in paediatric speech-language pathology …

During development, GABA and glycine play major trophic and synaptic roles in the
establishment of the neuromotor system. In this review, we summarise the formation …

Purpose: With the long-term goal to develop a clinically feasible tool for assessing
articulatory involvement in ALS, we designed an algorithmic approach to automatically …

Highlights•We investigated speech rhythm in people with Parkinson's Disease (PwPD) and
controls.•Even mildly affected PwPD differed from controls in their rhythmic …

Purpose The purpose of this article was to validate a novel acoustic analysis of oral
diadochokinesis (DDK) in assessing bulbar motor involvement in amyotrophic lateral …

Objective: In the absence of an adequate dysarthria assessment in the Netherlands, we
developed the Radboud Dysarthria Assessment (RDA). This article describes its …

Abstract Background/Aims: Maximum repetition rate (MRR) is often used in the assessment
of speech motor performance in older children and adults. The present study aimed to …

Background A large number of people who experience a stroke are affected by dysarthria.
This may be in isolation or in association with aphasia and/or dysphagia. Despite evidence …

As the speech apparatus is also involved in producing non-speech movements,
understanding whether speech and non-speech planning are controlled by the same brain …