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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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Croot, Karen; Ballard, Kirrie; Leyton, Cristian E.; Hodges, John R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: The International Consensus Criteria for the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia (PPA; Gorno-Tempini et al., 2011) propose apraxia of speech (AOS) as 1 of 2 core features of nonfluent/agrammatic PPA and propose phonological errors or absence of motor speech disorder as features of logopenic PPA. We investigated the sensitivity and…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Aphasia, Phonology