The increasing global competitiveness demands the development and improvement of self-quality, particularly quality self-performance. Dysarthria is one speech disorders that often provides significant obstacles to sufferer's performance. For this reason, study was intended as an initial investigate differences in acoustic features both contoid vocoid phonemes produced by dysarthria non-dysarthr...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which vowel metrics are capable of distinguishing healthy from dysarthric speech and among different forms of dysarthria. METHOD A variety of vowel metrics were derived from spectral and temporal measurements of vowel tokens embedded in phrases produced by 45 speakers with dysarthria and 12 speakers with no history of neurologic...

Introduction: The relevance of our research lies in the search for effective ways speech therapy through development breathing correction sound reproduction disorders preschoolers with dysarthria. There are disagreements science and practice since theory recognizes fundamental importance productions defect; whereas therapists barely use corrective possibilities their due to lack clearly prescri...

Dysarthria is a motor disorder of speech characterized by abnormalities of the articulation and intelligibility of speech. Phonation and the rate of facial movements may also be affected. Understanding the nature and course of dysarthria in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is important because loss of communication prevents patients from participating in many activities, may lead to social i...

Exaggerated and redundant prosodic cue use has been noted among adults with dysarthria secondary to cerebral palsy (CP) (Patel, 2004; van Doorn & Sheard, 2001). A possible explanation may be that speakers heighten prosodic contrasts to increase intelligibility. The current work examined whether children with dysarthria due to CP also produce exaggerated prosodic contours and if so, how prosodic...

The perceptual method of classifying dysarthria is considered the “gold standard” for clinically differentiating the types of dysarthria. Darley et al., 1 pioneered the use of perceptual classification system to identify clusters of salient perceptual characteristics in speech that are associated with lesions in the central and peripheral nervous system. This system is also popularly referred t...

The study describes an effort to evaluate the speech difficulties as perceived by individuals with dysarthria. A self-report questionnaire, Living with Neurologically Based Speech Difficulties (Living with Dysarthria), was answered by 55 individuals with varying types and degrees of dysarthria. Results show that both type and degree of subjectively perceived communicative difficulties varied. D...