The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher
Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the …

Bulbar impairment represents a hallmark feature of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) that
significantly impacts survival and quality of life. Speech and swallowing dysfunction are key …

With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human
brain" live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory …

The relationship between speaking rate, vowel space area, and speech intelligibility was
studied in a group of 9 subjects with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and 9 age-and …

Both rate reduction and increased loudness reportedly are associated with an increase in
the size of the articulatory-acoustic working space and improved acoustic distinctiveness for …

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 …

Breathing was investigated in 14 male subjects with Parkinson's disease and 14 healthy
male control subjects. Kinematic, spirometric, acoustic, and pressure data were used to …

Friedreich ataxia is the most frequent hereditary ataxia, with an estimated prevalence of 3–4
cases per 100,000 individuals. This autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative disease is …

Purpose The perceptual consequences of rate reduction, increased vocal intensity, and
clear speech were studied in speakers with multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease …

A classic observation in neurology is that aphasics can sing words they cannot pronounce
otherwise. To further assess this claim, we investigated the production of sung and spoken …