Oral and laryngeal diadochokinesis across the life span: A scoping review of methods, reference data, and clinical applications

RD Kent, Y Kim, L Chen - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The aim of this study was to conduct a scoping review of research on oral and
laryngeal diadochokinesis (DDK) in children and adults, either typically …

Quantification of motor speech impairment and its anatomic basis in primary progressive aphasia

C Cordella, M Quimby, A Touroutoglou, M Brickhouse… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To evaluate whether a quantitative speech measure is effective in identifying and
monitoring motor speech impairment (MSI) in patients with primary progressive aphasia …

Age norms for auditory-perceptual neurophonetic parameters: A prerequisite for the assessment of childhood dysarthria

T Schölderle, E Haas, W Ziegler - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose The aim of this study was to collect auditory-perceptual data on established
symptom categories of dysarthria from typically developing children between 3 and 9 years …

Influence of language load on speech motor skill in children with specific language impairment

M Saletta, L Goffman, C Ward, J Oleson - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show particular deficits in the
generation of sequenced action: the quintessential procedural task. Practiced imitation of a …

[HTML][HTML] Vowel space area in later childhood and adolescence: Effects of age, sex and ease of communication

M Pettinato, O Tuomainen, S Granlund, V Hazan - Journal of Phonetics, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigated vowel space area (VSA) development in childhood and adolescence
and its impact on the ability to hyperarticulate vowels. In experiment 1, 96 participants aged …

Data-driven classification of dysarthria profiles in children with cerebral palsy

KM Allison, KC Hustad - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose The objectives of this study were to examine different speech profiles among
children with dysarthria secondary to cerebral palsy (CP) and to characterize the effect of …

Speech rate entrainment in children and adults with and without autism spectrum disorder

CJ Wynn, SA Borrie, TP Sellers - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose Conversational entrainment, a phenomenon whereby people modify their
behaviors to match their communication partner, has been evidenced as critical to …

Use of automated kinematic diadochokinesis analysis to identify potential indicators of speech motor involvement in children with cerebral palsy

KM Allison, ISB Nip, P Rong - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: This study examined multiple variables obtained from an automated measure of lip
movement during a diadochokinesis (DDK) task to identify those with potential to detect mild …

What do differences between Alternating and Sequential Diadochokinetic Tasks Tell Us about the development of Oromotor skills? An insight from Childhood to …

M Lancheros, D Friedrichs, M Laganaro - Brain sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Oral diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks are common research and clinical tools used to test
oromotor skills across different age groups. They include alternating motion rate (AMR) and …

A descriptive study of speech breathing in children with cerebral palsy during two types of connected speech tasks

S Kovacs, M Darling-White - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: This study examined speech breathing during two connected speech tasks in
children with cerebral palsy (CP) and typically developing (TD) peers. Understanding how …