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Higgins, Ashley N.; Richardson, Kelly C. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2019
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine speech characteristics in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) before and after participation in an 11-week choral singing intervention. Speech characteristics were analyzed using an acoustic measure of vowel space area (VSA) and a standardized speech intelligibility metric. Participants…
Descriptors: Singing, Intervention, Neurological Impairments, Acoustics
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Montpetit, Kathleen; Haley, Stephen; Bilodeau, Nathalie; Ni, Pengsheng; Tian, Feng; Gorton, George, III; Mulcahey, M. J. – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2011
This article reports on the content range and measurement precision of an upper extremity (UE) computer adaptive testing (CAT) platform of physical function in children with cerebral palsy. Upper extremity items representing skills of all abilities were administered to 305 parents. These responses were compared with two traditional standardized…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Cerebral Palsy, Human Body