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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"motor speech"”.
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Treatment of Ataxic Dysarthria Using a Modified Be Clear Approach: A Pilot Study
Ataxic dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by irregular articulatory errors as well as changes to prosody, such as atypical variability in loudness, pitch and stress (Duffy, 2020). Like many other motor speech disorders, ataxic dysarthria can impact an individual's quality of life, …
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Optimization of acoustic feature extraction from dysarthric speech
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by weak or uncoordinated movements of the speech musculature. While unfamiliar listeners struggle to understand speakers with severe dysarthria, familiar listeners are often able to comprehend with high accuracy. This observation implies that …
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Traços supra-segmentais da fono-articulação de mulheres no menacme e na pós-menopausa
… acústicas foram realizadas com o programa Motor Speech Profile. Os resultados demonstraram redução da velocidade de fala e aumento de duração de pausas, seguidos pela tendência ao agravamento da voz, modificações de ressonância na pós-menopausa e ainda, inexistiram variações significativas …
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Social Aspects of Communication in Parkinson's Disease
… neurological condition which affects motor control, in almost all cases involving speech, and is frequently of many years duration. Much is known about speech production but less of the psychosocial consequences of the speech impairment (dysarthria). Accounts of people with dysarthria …
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Early Identification of Dysphagia Post Pediatric Ischemic Stroke
… co-occurrence and associations of dysphagia, motor speech and language impairment in pediatric stroke; and 4) a prospective survey of dysphagia experts to determine opinion of relevance and feasibility of assessment items to move forward in the development of a dysphagia screening tool. This …
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Ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų kalbos ir motorikos sutrikimų sąsajos /
… disorders, general and the importance of fine motor development, articulation and the importance of speech. Analyzed the influence of motor speech disorders. Before the investigation, hypothesis that 4-6 years of motor system may have an impact on children's language disorders. The study was …
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Getting in sync: Exploring and supporting peer interaction in an autistic child with inconsistent access to speech
… autistic child with inconsistent access to speech and concomitant diagnoses of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and apraxia. In addition to behavioral assessments of John, data collection included interviews of John and 8 other …
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MUSIC TO OUR EYES: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE FOR MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION IN MUSIC PERCEPTION
… the “McGurk Effect” (McGurk & McDonald, 1976) in speech perception, some researchers (e.g. Liberman & Mattingly, 1985) have argued that humans uniquely interpret auditory and visual (motor) speech signals as a single intended audiovisual articulatory gesture, and that such multisensory integration …
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Acoustic-based assistive technology tools for dysarthria managment
… and treatment of dysarthria, a neurological motor speech disorder. The novel algorithms presented in this thesis include a silence, unvoiced and voiced segmentation technique for dysarthric speech based on linear prediction error variance (LPEV), an automatic diadochokinetic (DDK) analysis …
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Using assistive technology software to compensate for writing and reading impairments in aphasia
… reading difficulties) but relatively preserved speech and comprehension. Aims: 1. Consider the evidence for writing treatment interventions with a systematic review of the literature; 2. Conduct a pilot study testing the acceptability of a compensatory narrative writing treatment intervention …
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Perceptual and acoustic features of speech in individuals with Down syndrome and their impact on speech intelligibility
Speech production involves five major components: respiration, phonation, articulation, resonance, and prosody and number of methods can be used to evaluate these aspects. Perceptual analysis methods are frequently employed; however, their reliability has been called into question. Acoustic …
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Acoustic model adaptation for recognition of dysarthric speech
Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2014-06-28T10:00:22Z Item was in collections: Dissertations and Theses - Electrical and Computer Engineering (ID: 446) Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois (ID: 204) No. of bitstreams: 2 Sharma_Harsh.pdf: 1379121 bytes, checksum: …