Purpose Motor speech abnormalities are highly common and debilitating in individuals with
idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD). These abnormalities, collectively termed hypokinetic …

Bulbar dysfunction is a common presentation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and
significantly impacts quality of life of people with ALS (PALS). The current paper reviews …

Purpose The perceptual consequences of rate reduction, increased vocal intensity, and
clear speech were studied in speakers with multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease …

Purpose The impact of clear speech, increased vocal intensity, and rate reduction on
acoustic characteristics of vowels was compared in speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) …

Abstract Background/purpose Individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) often exhibit
decreased range of movement secondary to the disease process, which has been shown to …

Purpose Speech acoustic characteristics of children with cerebral palsy (CP) were examined
with a multiple speech subsystems approach; speech intelligibility was evaluated using a …

Purpose The authors investigated how different variants of clear speech affect segmental
and suprasegmental acoustic measures of speech in speakers with Parkinson's disease and …

Purpose The primary purpose of this study was to compare percent correct word and
sentence intelligibility scores for individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's …

Objective: The relations between acoustic measures and their articulatory bases have rarely
been tested in dysarthria but are important for diagnostic and treatment purposes. We tested …

The current study was undertaken to investigate the impact of speech motor issues on the
speech intelligibility of children with moderate to severe speech sound disorders (SSD) …