Oral-diadochokinesis rates across languages: English and Hebrew norms

M Icht, BM Ben-David - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2014 - Elsevier
Oro-facial and speech motor control disorders represent a variety of speech and language
pathologies. Early identification of such problems is important and carries clinical …

Individual variability in delayed auditory feedback effects on speech fluency and rate in normally fluent adults

HC Chon, SJ Kraft, J Zhang, T Loucks, NG Ambrose - 2013 - ASHA
Purpose Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) is known to induce stuttering-like disfluencies
(SLDs) and cause speech rate reductions in normally fluent adults, but the reason for …

Speech rate association with cerebellar white-matter diffusivity in adults with persistent developmental stuttering

S Jossinger, V Kronfeld-Duenias, A Zislis… - Brain Structure and …, 2021 - Springer
Speech rate is a basic characteristic of language production, which affects the speaker's
intelligibility and communication efficiency. Various speech disorders, including persistent …

Intelligibility, articulation rate, fluency, and communicative efficiency in typically developing children

T Schölderle, E Haas, S Baumeister, W Ziegler - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose This article describes the developmental trajectories of four communication-related
parameters (ie, intelligibility, articulation rate, fluency, and communicative efficiency) in a …

The validity of LENA technology for assessing the linguistic environment and interactions of infants learning Hebrew and Arabic

B Levin-Asher, O Segal, L Kishon-Rabin - Behavior research methods, 2023 - Springer
The present study assessed LENA's suitability as a tool for monitoring future language
interventions by evaluating its reliability, construct validity, and criterion validity in infants …

Acoustic properties of dominance and request utterances in social anxiety

L Galili, O Amir, E Gilboa-Schechtman - Journal of social and clinical …, 2013 - Guilford Press
Social anxiety (SA) has been consistently linked to subjectively rated perceptions of
nonconfident vocal communication, yet the link between SA and objective vocal properties …

An Adolescent Confronted with Cluttering: The story of Johan

Y van Zaalen, D Strangis - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: This case study is presented to inform the reader of potential speech, language,
cognitive, and emotional characteristics in preadolescent cluttering. Method: This case study …

Speech rate adjustment of adults during conversation

D Freud, R Ezrati-Vinacour, O Amir - Journal of fluency disorders, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Speech rate convergence has been reported previously as a phenomenon in
which one's speech rate is influenced by his/her partner's speech rate. This phenomenon …

Early speech rate development: A longitudinal study

A Tendera, M Rispoli, A Senthilselvan… - Journal of Speech …, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose Our knowledge of speech rate development remains inadequate because of limited
longitudinal data and lack of data from children under age 3; 0 (years; months). The purpose …

What do these sounds tell us about the therapeutic alliance: Acoustic markers as predictors of alliance

A Nof, O Amir, P Goldstein… - Clinical Psychology & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the trajectories of alliance formation that the patient is likely to establish with the
therapist during treatment, even before their first meeting, can help prevent the potentially …