Improvement or maintenance of speech intelligibility is a central aim in a whole range of
conditions in speech–language therapy, both developmental and acquired. Best clinical …

This paper describes the concept of comprehensibility and how it is an important construct in
the assessment and treatment of dysarthric speech. Intelligibility and comprehensibility are …

Speech-language pathology relies on auditory-perceptual judgment as a central tool for
classifying and measuring a variety of disorders of communication. Over the history of the …

Children's Speech Sound Disorders Concise, easy-to-understand overview of current
practice in articulation disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental dysarthria …

This study investigates inter-and intrajudge reliability of a clinical examination of swallowing
in adults. Several investigations have sought correlations between clinical indicators of …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sentence length on
intelligibility and measures of speech motor performance in persons with amyotrophic lateral …

This investigation evaluated a possible source of reduced intelligibility in hypokinetic
dysarthric speech, namely the mismatch between listeners' perceptual strategies and the …

Purpose: This study was designed to determine whether within-speaker fluctuations in
speech intelligibility occurred among speakers with dysarthria who produced a reading …

The effects of two qualitatively different familiarization procedures on listeners' perceptions
of speech produced by a Korean woman with moderate-severe spastic-ataxic dysarthria …

The influence of verbal and nonverbal contextual factors on intelligibility was examined
using sentences produced under varying conditions by a speaker with severe flaccid …