Assessment of childhood apraxia of speech: A review/tutorial of objective measurement techniques

H Terband, A Namasivayam, E Maas, F van Brenk… - Journal of Speech …, 2019 - ASHA
Background With respect to the clinical criteria for diagnosing childhood apraxia of speech
(commonly defined as a disorder of speech motor planning and/or programming), research …

Influences of methodological decisions on assessing the spatiotemporal stability of speech movement sequences

A Wisler, L Goffman, L Zhang, J Wang - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The spatiotemporal index (STI) is a widely used approach for measuring speech
pattern stability across multiple repetitions of a stimulus. In this study, we examine how …

A framework of motoric complexity: An investigation in children with typical and impaired speech development

J Case, MI Grigos - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020 - ASHA
Introduction The current work presents a framework of motoric complexity where stimuli differ
according to movement elements across a sound sequence (ie, consonant transitions and …

Speech movement variability in people who stutter: a vocal tract magnetic resonance imaging study

CEE Wiltshire, M Chiew, J Chesters, MP Healy… - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose People who stutter (PWS) have more unstable speech motor systems than people
who are typically fluent (PWTF). Here, we used real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

[图书][B] The handbook of psycholinguistic and cognitive processes: Perspectives in communication disorders

J Guendouzi, F Loncke, MJ Williams - 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
This handbook includes an overview of those areas of cognition and language processing
that are relevant to the field of communication disorders, and provides examples of …

Development of speech motor control: Lip movement variability

S Schötz, J Frid, A Löfqvist - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
This study examined variability of lip movements across repetitions of the same utterance as
a function of age in Swedish speakers. The specific purpose was to extend earlier findings …

Formant transitions in the fluent speech of Farsi-speaking people who stutter

A Dehqan, F Yadegari, M Blomgren… - Journal of Fluency …, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose Second formant (F2) transitions can be used to infer attributes of articulatory
transitions. This study compared formant transitions during fluent speech segments of Farsi …

Acoustic and kinematic methods of indexing spatiotemporal stability in children with developmental language disorder

S Benham, A Wisler, J Berlin, J Wang… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: The spatiotemporal index (STI) is a standard metric for quantifying the stability and
patterning of speech movements. The STI has often been applied to individual speech …

The effect of practice on variability in childhood apraxia of speech: A multidimensional analysis

J Case, MI Grigos - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose Variability has been interpreted in differing ways according to context (eg,
development, speech impairment, and learning). A challenge arises when interpreting …

Associations between tongue movement pattern consistency and formant movement pattern consistency in response to speech behavioral modifications

AS Mefferd - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The degree of speech movement pattern consistency can provide information about speech
motor control. Although tongue motor control is particularly important because of the …