Comparison of intelligibility measures for adults with Parkinson's disease, adults with multiple sclerosis, and healthy controls

KL Stipancic, K Tjaden, G Wilding - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2016 - ASHA
Purpose This study obtained judgments of sentence intelligibility using orthographic
transcription for comparison with previously reported intelligibility judgments obtained using …

Effect of concurrent walking and interlocutor distance on conversational speech intensity and rate in Parkinson's disease

CM McCaig, SG Adams, AD Dykstra, M Jog - Gait & posture, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous studies have demonstrated a negative effect of concurrent walking and talking on
gait in Parkinson's disease (PD) but there is limited information about the effect of concurrent …

The relationship among articulation rate, intelligibility and working memory in children with spastic and flaccid dysarthria

PY Jeong, HS Sim, SH Jeong, D Yim - Phonetics and Speech …, 2016 - koreascience.kr
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association among articulation rate, speech
intelligibility and working memory in children with dysarthria. Two subject groups of 11 …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting treatment outcomes in dysarthria through speech feature analysis.

AR Fletcher - 2016 - ir.canterbury.ac.nz
Increasing loudness and reducing speech rate are common behavioural speech
modifications used in the treatment of dysarthria. Both strategies provide a promising basis …

[PDF][PDF] Combining Energy and Cross-Entropy Analysis for Nuclear Segments Detection.

A Origlia, F Cutugno - INTERSPEECH, 2016 - isca-archive.org
Features related to rhythmic patterns are involved in the representation of the intonational
content for spoken language analysis. Among others, speech rate is one of the most used …

Symmetry: Measuring communicative performance across four tasks in augmented and mouth-speaker interactions

JM Seale - 2016 - search.proquest.com
This investigation explored the utility of symmetry as a metric for describing and comparing
communication relationships in two-party interactions across four differently situated tasks …

Fine motor timing ability-A study of syllable repetition and finger tapping in adults with developmental stuttering or Parkinson's disease compared with healthy adults

M Sundqvist - 2016 - gupea.ub.gu.se
Aim and methods: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the fine motor timing ability
as manifested by speech motor and fine hand motor activity in persons with developmental …

Fine motor timing ability

M Sundqvist - 2016 - core.ac.uk
Fine motor timing ability Page 1 Fine motor timing ability A study of syllable repetition and
finger tapping in persons with developmental stuttering or Parkinson’s disease compared with …