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The Effects Of Intensive Voice Treatment On Speech Intelligibility And Acoustics Of Mandarin Speakers With Hypokinetic Dysarthria Due To Parkinsons Disease
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Book Synopsis The Effects of Intensive Voice Treatment on Speech Intelligibility and Acoustics of Mandarin Speakers with Hypokinetic Dysarthria Due to Parkinson’s Disease by : Sih-Chiao Hsu
Download or read book The Effects of Intensive Voice Treatment on Speech Intelligibility and Acoustics of Mandarin Speakers with Hypokinetic Dysarthria Due to Parkinson’s Disease written by Sih-Chiao Hsu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypokinetic dysarthria is a speech disorder that commonly occurs in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, little is known about the speech characteristics and the effects of speech treatment on the speech of Mandarin speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria (henceforth, Mandarin speakers with PD). The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the effects of intensive voice treatment on the speech intelligibility and acoustics of this population. This dissertation consisted of three papers. The first paper, “Acoustic and perceptual speech characteristics of native Mandarin speakers with Parkinson’s disease,” investigated the general speech characteristics of 11 Mandarin speakers with PD. Intelligibility and acoustic outcomes were reported and compared to seven age- and gender-matched neurologically healthy controls. Findings from this study showed that Mandarin speakers with PD exhibited decreased intelligibility, local pitch variation, vowel space area, speech rate, and rate variation.
Book Synopsis The Effects of Intensive Speech Treatment on Intelligibility in Spanish Speakers with Parkinson's Disease by : Gemma Moya-Gale
Download or read book The Effects of Intensive Speech Treatment on Intelligibility in Spanish Speakers with Parkinson's Disease written by Gemma Moya-Gale and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivation of this study was to examine the effects of intensive speech treatment on the conversational intelligibility of Spanish speakers with Parkinson's Disease (PD). It also aimed at investigating several acoustic variables in the speech of this population. Sixteen speakers with a medical diagnosis of PD participated in this study and their voice recordings were analyzed pre- and post-treatment. The intelligibility measures of transcription accuracy and median ease-of-understanding ratings increased significantly immediately post-treatment and gains were maintained at the one-month follow-up. The acoustic variables of vowel space and voice onset time did not change significantly pre-to-post treatment, whilst the prosodic targets of intensity and mean fundamental frequency increased significantly as a result of treatment. These findings support the implementation of intensive voice intervention to improve intelligibility in Spanish dysarthria. Clinical and theoretical considerations are discussed.
Book Synopsis The Effects of Intensive Voice Therapy on Untreated Articulatory Precision in Patient's with Parkinson's Disease by : Kristina Lane
Download or read book The Effects of Intensive Voice Therapy on Untreated Articulatory Precision in Patient's with Parkinson's Disease written by Kristina Lane and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Intelligibility and Acoustic Characteristics of the Dysarthria in Mandarin Speakers with Cerebral Palsy by : Jing-Yi Jeng
Download or read book Intelligibility and Acoustic Characteristics of the Dysarthria in Mandarin Speakers with Cerebral Palsy written by Jing-Yi Jeng and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effects of Intensive Lower Limb Training on the Speech of Patients with Parkinson's Disease by : Lauren Fjeldsted Allen
Download or read book The Effects of Intensive Lower Limb Training on the Speech of Patients with Parkinson's Disease written by Lauren Fjeldsted Allen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has documented the positive effects of physical therapy as a treatment for limb motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Previous studies have shown that speech and voice measures can be reflective of overall cardiovascular health and fitness in young, middle-aged, and older adults. In healthy individuals, increased respiratory drive has been found to influence vocal function and speech articulation. The rationale for the present study was that improved lower limb function might lead to improvements in overall fitness, which then may influence speech in individuals with Parkinson's disease. To investigate this premise, 10 participants diagnosed with mild to moderate idiopathic PD were involved in an intensive lower limb training program called Resistance Exercise via Negative-Eccentric Work (RENEW). The speech of the participants was recorded before and after the RENEW treatment in both medication-on and medication-off conditions. Following treatment there was a statistically significant increase in spirantization of the stop gap in DDK repetition in the medication-on condition and a decrease in diphthong duration in the medication-off condition. After treatment in the medication-on condition there was an increase in spirantization and a reduction in first and second formant transitions for the diphthong /oi/ compared to the medication-off condition. These results represented a slight worsening of articulatory precision and movement following treatment in response to PD medication. Overall, the present study found that intensive lower limb training did not influence the acoustic measures of speech articulation examined in the present study.
Book Synopsis Speech Intelligibility Gains in Parkinson's Disease Patients Post Voice Treatment by : Sharon Link Maclay
Download or read book Speech Intelligibility Gains in Parkinson's Disease Patients Post Voice Treatment written by Sharon Link Maclay and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effects of Intensive Voice Therapy (LSVT®) on Vocal and Facial Expressiveness in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease by : Jennifer Lee Spielman
Download or read book The Effects of Intensive Voice Therapy (LSVT®) on Vocal and Facial Expressiveness in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease written by Jennifer Lee Spielman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effect of Voice Therapy on Phonation and Intelligibility by :
Download or read book The Effect of Voice Therapy on Phonation and Intelligibility written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effect of Intensive Voice Therapy on Vowel Duration and Second-formant Transitions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by : Antonia B. L. Johnson
Download or read book The Effect of Intensive Voice Therapy on Vowel Duration and Second-formant Transitions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease written by Antonia B. L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effects of Emphasis Training on the Speech Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speakers with Parkinson's Disease by : Carolyn Bean
Download or read book The Effects of Emphasis Training on the Speech Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speakers with Parkinson's Disease written by Carolyn Bean and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effect of Intensive Speech Therapy on Vocal Intensity in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by : Patricia A. Benjamin
Download or read book The Effect of Intensive Speech Therapy on Vocal Intensity in Patients with Parkinson's Disease written by Patricia A. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Investigation of the Effects of Respiratory and Voice Therapy on Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson's Disease Patients by :
Download or read book An Investigation of the Effects of Respiratory and Voice Therapy on Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson's Disease Patients written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Effect of a Rhythmic Speech Cuing Protocol on Speech Intelligibility in Patients with Parkinson's Disease by : Joy Ouellette
Download or read book The Effect of a Rhythmic Speech Cuing Protocol on Speech Intelligibility in Patients with Parkinson's Disease written by Joy Ouellette and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term effects of a Rhythmic Speech Cuing (RSC) protocol on severe speech impairments resulting from Parkinson's disease (PD). Five individuals diagnosed with idiopathic PD and speech deficiencies resulting from PD participated in the study. Each participant received 12 treatment sessions of RSC over a 4-week period. Each 25-minute treatment session consisted of metered rhythmic cuing with fading (for 20 minutes) and conversational speech (for 5 minutes). For rhythmic cuing, participants hand-tapped and spoke each word syllable to an auditory metronome cue that was set to 60% of their habitual speech rate (HSR). Data were collected during three testing sessions: pre-, mid-, and post-test. Each 20-minute testing session consisted of the participant speaking a total of 22 sentences (i.e., 220 words) from the Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech (AIDS) (Yorkston & Beukelman, 1981a) at their own preferred pace with no cuing. A picture description task (PDT) was also used, in which participants reported what they observed in a color photo depicting an everyday scenario. The dependent variables observed via the AIDS were percentage of intelligible speech, speech rate (including duration and words per minute, or WPM), and intelligible words per minute (IWPM). Unintelligible words per minute (UWPM) and communication efficiency ratio (CER) were also observed with the AIDS. Additionally, intelligible words and content of speech were observed via the PDT. The results showed that RSC had a statistically significant main effect on content of speech scores. Although scores for only one dependent variable achieved statistical significance, scores for six out of eight dependent variables generated large effect sizes, thus indicating practical significance. Findings revealed that the current RSC treatment protocol was most effective in the treatment of individuals with severe speech deficiencies. The participant whose speech was the most severely affected demonstrated marked improvements in all dependent variables in the current research. For example, his percentage of intelligible speech increased from 65% to 89%, which is a percentage that is comparable to typical speakers. Moreover, his CER increased from 0.14 to 0.28, showing his communication efficiency doubled from pre- to post-test. For this participant, spontaneous speech samples via the PDT indicated that scores for both intelligible words and content of speech increased from pre- to post-test. These increases suggest skill transfer may have occurred from training to spontaneous speech. Limitations within the current research included difficulty assessing speech deficiencies in the screening procedure, and a small and varied sample. Therefore, clinicians should be vigilant in utilizing an assessment tool that will accurately measure level of speech impairment. A precise tool will be helpful in identifying individuals with severe deficiencies who are most likely to benefit from use of this treatment protocol. The current data demonstrate that within a one month RSC protocol, patients with severe speech impairments resulting from PD can maintain or improve functional speech.
Book Synopsis Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech by : Juan I. Godino-Llorente
Download or read book Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech written by Juan I. Godino-Llorente and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the revised and extended papers of the First Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop, AAPS 2019, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in September 2019. The 6 full papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They present recent research on the automatic assessment of parkinsonian speech from the point of view of such disciplines as machine learning, speech technology, phonetics, neurology, and speech therapy
Book Synopsis Perioral Sensorimotor Integration in Parkinson's Disease by : Amitava Biswas
Download or read book Perioral Sensorimotor Integration in Parkinson's Disease written by Amitava Biswas and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Parkinson's disease (PD) is historically seen as a hypokinetic disorder of movements, including speech, recent studies have suggested degradation of sensorimotor integration in PD. Therefore, this study addresses the following questions. (1) Is there any sensory deficit in PD that correlates to the speech deficit? (2) Do PD patients significantly differ from healthy individuals on this account? A total of 36 participants included 12 PD patients, 12 age matched geriatric healthy subjects (GN), and 12 young healthy subjects (YN) in the age group of 20--30 years. All participants had normal cognitive function and normal hearing. Sensory evaluations included Tests of Basic Auditory Capability (TBAC), and tests of labial mechanosensation by Johnson-VanBoven-Phillips probes (JVP). Speech performance was evaluated by a new analytic measure: Guesstimate of Articulatory Performance (GAP) that extracts an overall score of formant transition from the acoustic signal, and by two conventional perceptual measures: Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech (AIDS), and Communication Efficiency Ratio (CER). Compared to the GN group, The PD group showed significant deficits in mechanosensation and speech performance but not in auditory performance. Compared to the YN group, the GN group showed significant deficits in mechanosensation and auditory performance but not in speech performance. Only the PD group showed a significant correlation between speech performance and mechanosensation. The results suggest that motor speech deficits may not be normally associated with mechanosensory deficits, but the association may be significant in PD. A computational model was investigated for theoretical interpretation of the results. This model was based on the Kalman principle of sensorimotor integration. Selective lesioning of the model also indicate that simultaneous degradation of sensorimotor integration and mechanosensation may be intrinsic in hypokinetic dysarthria.
Book Synopsis Mental and Behavioral Dysfunction in Movement Disorders by : Marc-Andre Bedard
Download or read book Mental and Behavioral Dysfunction in Movement Disorders written by Marc-Andre Bedard and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
