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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"speech disorder"”.
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The Representation of Speech Disorders in Film
A speech disorder can be defined as any condition in which a person has trouble creating speech sounds or difficulty with communication. For example, an individual with a stutter may have disfluencies in speech flow or disordered speech patterns. The representation of marganizied groups within the …
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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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Impact of speech amplification devices on quality of life in persons living with Parkinson's disease and hypophonia : a quality improvement project
… disease (PD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder caused by reduced dopaminergic neurons of the brain that frequently cause speech and voice disturbances (Mohseni et al., 2023). Of the motor and nonmotor symptoms that develop in PD, tremor, speech difficulties, and muscle rigidity are the …
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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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The effectiveness of Ayurvedic oil based nasal instillation (Nasya) medicines in the treatment of facial paralysis (Ardita)
… in Ardita symptoms including facial distortion, speech disorders and facial pain. All measures of these symptoms were considered. Types of studies All quantitative study designs (experimental, quasi-experimental and observational) were considered. Search strategy: A three-step search strategy was …
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Singing about singing : using the voice as a tool for self-reflection
… and the design of human-computer interfaces for speech disorder treatment and prosody acquisition.
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Ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų kalbos ir motorikos sutrikimų sąsajos /
… of scientific literature on language and its 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 …
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Assessment of intelligibility in children
… of sentences and transcription of spontaneous speech. Audio recordings of 74 ten-year-old children with isolated cleft palate and/or 22q11DS and 11 children with typical development were included. Validity was examined through comparison of results for the children with and without deviant …
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Survey and analysis of patterns of stuttering among Zambian school children
… indicated that the incidence of the disorder is approximately the same as that reported in Western literature (i.e. .97% of the total school population) and that it is also significantly related to factors such as age, sex, level of education, and housing conditions. However, the …
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The Speech Situation Checklist: A Normative And Comparative Investigat
… amount of negative emotional reaction and speech disruption in particular speech situations among children who stutter, compared to those who do not (Brutten & Vanryckeghem, 2003b; Knudson, 1939; Meyers, 1986; Trotter, 1983). Laboratory investigations have been utilized to describe the …
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Acoustic-based assistive technology tools for dysarthria managment
… 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 and …
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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: …