There is increasing emphasis on use of connected speech for acoustic analysis of voice disorder, but the differential impact of disorder on initiation, maintenance and termination of phonation has received little attention. This study introduces a new measure of dynamic changes at onset of phonation during connected speech, phonation stabilisation time (PST), and compares this measure with conv...

The automatic detection of vocal cord/vocal tract diseases from the medically disordered speech is a challenging task in the medical field. An automatic diagnostic system for the medically disordered voice is proposed in this paper. The developed system takes speech recorded by a patient having a disorder in his/her voice, as an input. The system gives the type of voice disorder as an output. T...

OBJECTIVE To achieve consistency and uniformity in reporting speech outcomes in individuals born with cleft palate with or without cleft lip using perceptual parameters that characterize their speech production behavior regardless of the language or languages spoken. DESIGN A working group of six individuals experienced in speech and cleft palate was formed to develop a system of universal pa...

Conflict of interest: non-existent The phonological disorder is one of the speech sound disorders with a higher incidence in children1,4-9 and can negatively impact the health and quality of life of children. Because of it early diagnosis and intervention become essential to prevent further improvement of the disorder and the appearance of other alterations1. Children with phonological disorder...

Speech of people with schizophrenia is often difficult to follow. There is evidence that neuropsychological deficits associated with schizophrenia explain some of the variance in speech disorder, but its nature and causes overall are not well understood. This study rated speech samples from 60 schizophrenic outpatients for thought disorder, conceptual disorganization, linguistic structural brea...

BACKGROUND Speech-language pathologists/Otolaryngologists recognize high prevalence of speech and language disorder among children. The aim of the study is to find out the epidemiological profile of speech and language disorder in north central Nigeria. METHOD A five year retrospective review of all referral to speech and language therapy unit ENT Department between January 2005 and December ...

The term “aphemia” is now used to describe a motor disorder that affects speech production but leaves the comprehension of spoken and written language intact. Aphemia is a specific form of mutism. Aphemia was formerly referred to as phonetic disintegration, pure anarthria, apraxic dysarthria, cortical dysarthria, verbal apraxia, subcortical motor aphasia, pure motor aphasia, small or mini Broca...

BACKGROUND intelligibility of phonological disorder. AIM to compare the intelligibility of phonological disorder analyzed by three distinct groups of judges. METHOD the research consisted of two samples: one sample was composed by 30 individuals with phonological disorder (assessed individuals) and the other sample was composed by the judges (speech-language therapists, laypeople and mother...