A repetitive speech disorder resulting from infarcts in the paramedian thalami and the midbrain is reported. Although the speech disorder seemed like stuttering, the compulsive repetitions, constant rate and monotonous tone were not associated with ordinary stuttering. Since repetition was restricted to the first syllable, the speech disorder in our patient could be distinguished from palilalia...

Clinical observation suggested that speech disorder seemed to be associated with sleep apnea. We recorded a standard speech sample from 39 matched subjects in three groups, 13 sleep apnea individuals, 13 subjects with COPD, and 13 subjects without sleep apnea or COPD. Three speech pathologists in a single blind listening task of the recorded samples judged whether or not speech disorder was pre...

Speech and language delay in children is associated with increased difficulty with reading, writing, attention, and socialization. Although physicians should be alert to parental concerns and to whether children are meeting expected developmental milestones, there currently is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine use of formal screening instruments in primary care to detect...

that are not found in other species. Although it is well-known that many other animals can also communicate by generating vocalization, it is not entirely clear whether it has the syntactic rules. Human speech and language may be the most complex and well-organized form of vocalization compared with those in other animals [2,3]. When individuals have speech deficits, they are regarded as being ...

We report clinical, cytogenetic, and comparative genomic hybridization findings for three siblings with an unbalanced 4q;16q translocation, minor malformations, and cognitive abnormalities, including childhood apraxia of speech, a rare, severe motor speech disorder. Breakpoint findings indicate that in addition to possible contributions from duplicated genes on chromosome 16, haploinsufficiency...

This paper focuses on the problem of automatically assessing the speech intelligibility of patients with dysarthria, which is a motor speech disorder. To effectively capture the characteristics of the speech disorder, various features are extracted in three speech dimensions: phonetic quality, prosody, and voice quality. Then, we find the best feature set satisfying a new feature selection crit...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were threefold: to report teachers' estimates of the prevalence of speech disorders (specifically, stuttering, voice, and speech-sound disorders); to consider correspondence between the prevalence of speech disorders and gender, grade level, and socioeconomic status; and to describe the level of support provided to schoolchildren with speech disorders. METHOD St...

BACKGROUND There are conflicting reports in the research literature of the literacy outcome of children with speech disorder. The link between phonological awareness and literacy in typically developing and literacy delayed children is well established, but there is less research specifically into children with an isolated speech disorder (i.e. with age-appropriate language skills). There is a ...

We provide a case analysis for 28-year-old, native Dutch-speaking lady who developed Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), few weeks after falling down the staircase. In addition to FAS, which gave impression she spoke with German accent, German(-like) words and structures occurred. Speech symptoms were aggravated by increased stress, fatigue or emotional pressure, this triggered jargon speech. It was...