Purpose This review summarizes research on disorders of speech production in Down
syndrome (DS) for the purposes of informing clinical services and guiding future research …

Improvement or maintenance of speech intelligibility is a central aim in a whole range of
conditions in speech–language therapy, both developmental and acquired. Best clinical …

Aim The purpose of this study was to create and validate the Communication Function
Classification System (CFCS) for children with cerebral palsy (CP), for use by a wide variety …

Second, AAC is a multidisciplinary field in which individuals with complex communication
needs and their families, along with computer programmers, educators, engineers, linguists …

The goal of this technical report on childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) was to assemble
information about this challenging disorder that would be useful for caregivers, speech …

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 …

Background: Changes to spoken communication are inevitable in Parkinson's disease (PD).
It remains unclear what consequences changes have for intelligibility of speech. Aims: To …

Purpose This study examined the relationship between listener comprehension and
intelligibility scores for speakers with mild, moderate, severe, and profound dysarthria …

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to create an empirical classification system for
speech severity in patients with dysarthria secondary to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

The dysarthrias form a group of diverse, chronic motor speech disorders. The disorders of
Parkinson's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and …