Surveillance registers monitor the prevalence of cerebral palsy and the severity of resulting
impairments across time and place. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy can affect …

This paper addresses the problem of Computer-Aided Speech and Language Therapy
(CASLT). The goal of the work described in the paper is to develop and evaluate a semi …

Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder often characterized by reduced speech intelligibility
through slow, uncoordinated control of speech production muscles. Automatic Speech …

Purpose Although dysarthria affects the large majority of individuals with cerebral palsy (CP)
and can substantially complicate everyday communication, previous research has provided …

The Dysarthric Expressed Emotional Database (DEED) is a novel, parallel multimodal
(audio-visual) database of dysarthric and typical emotional speech in British English which …

Introduction This exploratory study compared the effects of two speech therapy approaches
on speech characteristics of young adults with congenital dysarthria resulting from various …

Purpose This study examined the effects of Speech Intelligibility Treatment (SIT) on
intelligibility and naturalness of narrative speech produced by francophone children with …

Text-to-speech options on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices are
limited. Often, several individuals in a group setting use the same synthetic voice. This lack …

Purpose In this study, the authors sought to understand acoustic and perceptual cues to
contrastive stress in speakers with dysarthria (DYS) and healthy controls (HC). Method The …

Studies of prosodic control in severe dysarthria (DYS) have focused on differences between
impaired and nonimpaired speech in terms of the range and variation of fundamental …