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Olga Ivanova; Israel Martínez-Nicolás; Juan José García Meilán – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Recent evidence suggests that speech substantially changes in ageing. As a complex neurophysiological process, it can accurately reflect changes in the motor and cognitive systems underpinning human speech. Since healthy ageing is not always easily discriminable from early stages of dementia based on cognitive and behavioural…
Descriptors: Speech, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Alzheimers Disease
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Spyridoula Varlokosta; Katerina Fragkopoulou; Dimitra Arfani; Christina Manouilidou – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The detection and description of language impairments in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's Disease (AD) play an important role in research, clinical diagnosis and intervention. Various methodological protocols have been implemented for the assessment of morphosyntactic abilities in AD; narrative discourse elicitation tasks…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Alzheimers Disease, Speech Evaluation
Larissa M. Jordan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive and terminal kind of dementia, continues to rise with an estimated 14 million Americans affected by 2050. Prior to an AD diagnosis, many individuals are diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and have similar, but less severe, symptoms as those with AD. A common…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Mild Intellectual Disability, Clinical Diagnosis