Bulbar impairment represents a hallmark feature of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) that
significantly impacts survival and quality of life. Speech and swallowing dysfunction are key …

Purpose Early studies of perceptual learning of dysarthric speech, those summarized in
Borrie, McAuliffe, and Liss (2012), yielded preliminary evidence that listeners could learn to …

The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is a valid patient-reported outcome measure
developed to assess sleep quality and disturbances in clinical populations. This study aimed …

The care and management of patients with ALS should always be patient focused, with
attention to holistic and emotional aspects of well-being. It is the patient who ultimately …

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) …

Purpose: There is increasing interest in using automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems
to evaluate impairment severity or speech intelligibility in speakers with dysarthria. We …

Purpose: Unexpected and sustained manipulations of auditory feedback during speech
production result in “reflexive” and “adaptive” responses, which can shed light on feedback …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sentence length on
intelligibility and measures of speech motor performance in persons with amyotrophic lateral …

Objective: The use of speech measures is becoming a common practice in the assessment
of bulbar disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This study aimed to …

Purpose: This study investigated the effects of three clear speech variants on sentence
intelligibility and speaking effort for speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and age-and …