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Murray, Elizabeth; McCabe, Patricia; Ballard, Kirrie J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This randomized controlled trial compared the experimental Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST) treatment to the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme-Third Edition (NDP3; Williams & Stephens, 2004), used widely in clinical practice in Australia and the United Kingdom. Both programs aim to improve speech motor planning/programming for children…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Children, Syllables
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Ballard, Kirrie J.; Robin, Donald A.; McCabe, Patricia; McDonald, Jeannie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: Dysprosody is considered a core feature of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), especially impaired production of lexical stress. Few studies have tested the effects of intervention for dysprosody. This Phase II study with 3 children investigated the efficacy of a treatment targeting improved control of relative syllable durations in…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Children, Suprasegmentals
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Shriberg, Lawrence D.; Ballard, Kirrie J.; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Duffy, Joseph R.; Odell, Katharine H.; Williams, Charles A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: The primary goal of this case study was to describe the speech, prosody, and voice characteristics of a mother and daughter with a breakpoint in a balanced 7;13 chromosomal translocation that disrupted the transcription gene, "FOXP2" (cf. J. B. Tomblin et al., 2005). As with affected members of the widely cited KE family, whose…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mothers, Daughters, Speech Impairments