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Kearney,Elaine; Giles, Renuka; Haworth, Brandon; Faloutsos, Petros; Baljko, Melanie; Yunusova, Yana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: To further understand the effect of Parkinson's disease (PD) on articulatory movements in speech and to expand our knowledge of therapeutic treatment strategies, this study examined movements of the jaw, tongue blade, and tongue dorsum during sentence production with respect to speech intelligibility and compared the effect of varying…
Descriptors: Speech, Neurological Impairments, Sentences, Articulation (Speech)
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Stipancic, Kaila L.; Yunusova, Yana; Berry, James D.; Green, Jordan R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the minimally detectable change (MDC) and minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of a decline in speech sentence intelligibility and speaking rate for individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We also examined how the MDC and MCID vary across severities of dysarthria. Method:…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Communication Disorders, Sentences, Comprehension