Speech motor skill and stuttering

AK Namasivayam, P Van Lieshout - Journal of motor behavior, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The authors review converging lines of evidence from behavioral, kinematic, and
neuroimaging data that point to limitations in speech motor skills in people who stutter …

The blue-collar brain

G Van Orden, G Hollis, S Wallot - Frontiers in physiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Much effort has gone into elucidating control of the body by the brain, less so the role of the
body in controlling the brain. This essay develops the idea that the brain does a great deal of …

A nonword repetition task for speakers with misarticulations: The Syllable Repetition Task (SRT)

LD Shriberg, HL Lohmeier, TF Campbell… - 2009 - ASHA
Purpose Conceptual and methodological confounds occur when non (sense) word
repetition tasks are administered to speakers who do not have the target speech sounds in …

Investigating speech motor practice and learning in people who stutter

AK Namasivayam, P Van Lieshout - Journal of fluency disorders, 2008 - Elsevier
In this exploratory study, we investigated whether or not people who stutter (PWS) show
motor practice and learning changes similar to those of people who do not stutter (PNS). To …

Oral articulatory control in childhood apraxia of speech

MI Grigos, A Moss, Y Lu - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2015 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this research was to examine spatial and temporal aspects of
articulatory control in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), children with speech …

Stability and composition of functional synergies for speech movements in children with developmental speech disorders

H Terband, B Maassen, P Van Lieshout… - Journal of communication …, 2011 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to investigate the consistency and composition of functional
synergies for speech movements in children with developmental speech disorders …

Articulatory knowledge in the recognition of dysarthric speech

F Rudzicz - IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disabled speech is not compatible with modern generative and acoustic-only models of
speech recognition (ASR). This work considers the use of theoretical and empirical …

Speech sound disorders in children: An articulatory phonology perspective

AK Namasivayam, D Coleman, A O'Dwyer… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) is a generic term used to describe a range of difficulties
producing speech sounds in children. The foundations of clinical assessment, classification …

Tongue movements during water swallowing in healthy young and older adults

CM Steele, P Van Lieshout - 2009 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the nature and extent of variability in
tongue movement during healthy swallowing as a function of aging and gender. In addition …

Speech motor development in childhood apraxia of speech: Generating testable hypotheses by neurocomputational modeling

H Terband, B Maassen - Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2010 - karger.com
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a highly controversial clinical entity, with respect to
both clinical signs and underlying neuromotor deficit. In the current paper, we advocate a …