Neurological dysphonias are vocal disorders followed by injuries or changes in the nervous system. Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and the brain damage caused by it can affect communication in several aspects. The changes in the vocal features caused by these lesions are poorly described regarding the location and extent of cerebral involvement. The aim of this study was t...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics rate and perceptual judgment diadochokinesis (DDK) in typically developing children adults.Methods: Participants were aged 2;6 9;11 normal adults. For DDK tasks, they asked repeat [p*a], [t*a], [k*a], [p*at*a], [p*at*ak*a] accurately quickly with one breath. number repetitions per second measured as for each stimuli. also per...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of swallowing exercises on oral function in independent elderly patients visiting the Department of Prosthodontics at Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital. Twenty-nine patients aged over 65 years (15 men and 14 women; mean age, 75.0 years) in whom treatment was completed at this college were enrolled in the study. The patients were instructed ...

The ability to reproduce novel words is a sensitive marker of language impairment across a variety of developmental disorders. Nonword repetition tasks are thought to reflect phonological short-term memory skills. Yet, when children hear and then utter a word for the first time, they must transform a novel speech signal into a series of coordinated, precisely timed oral movements. Little is kno...

PURPOSE Advances in neurobiology are providing new opportunities to investigate the neurological systems underlying motor speech control. This study explores the perceptual characteristics of the speech of three genotypes of spino-cerebellar ataxia (SCA) as manifest in four different speech tasks. METHODS Speech samples from 26 speakers with SCA were perceptually rated by experienced listener...

1Speech-Language Pathologist, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 2Speech-Language Pathologist, MSc student, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil. 3MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Speech Language Pathologist, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Bauru Schoo...