Educational Objectives:(1) The reader will be able to describe the major types of acoustic
analysis available for the study of speech,(2) specify the components needed for a modern …

Purpose: While there has been mounting research centered on the diagnosis of childhood
apraxia of speech (CAS), little has focused on differentiating CAS from pediatric dysarthria …

The quality of speech directed towards infants may play an important role in infants'
language development. However, few studies have examined the link between the two. We …

Purpose This study examined acoustic predictors of speech intelligibility in speakers with
several types of dysarthria secondary to different diseases and conducted classification …

In a preliminary study, we documented significant changes in formant transitions associated
with successful manual circumlaryngeal treatment (MCT) of muscle tension dysphonia …

Speech samples of 79 dysarthric patients (native speakers of English) were judged by two
experienced judges by means of a perceptual rating scale covering the four main …

This study examined changes in voice and speech production in a patient with Parkinson
disease as he increased vocal intensity following 1 month of intensive voice treatment …

Summary descriptions are included for 19 procedures that have been, or could be, used to
assess the intelligibility of pediatric subjects. Most procedures can be placed in one of the …

Title description This stimulating collection of articles from leading international researchers
provides a state-of-the-art overview of core issues in second language speech perception …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of reduced vowel working space on
dysarthric talkers' speech intelligibility using both acoustic and perceptual approaches. In …