Kirrie J. Ballard

TL;DR: Evidence from nonspeech motor learning suggests that various principles may interact with each other and differentially affect diverse aspects of movements, and available evidence suggests that these principles hold promise for treatment of motor speech disorders.

TL;DR: Insight is offered into the biological basis of clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease, which appear topographically independent of β-amyloid load and can be applied to the majority of cases with primary progressive aphasic using a simple speech and language assessment scale based upon four key variables.

TL;DR: Describing the speech, prosody, and voice characteristics of a mother and daughter with a breakpoint in a balanced 7;13 chromosomal translocation that disrupted the transcription gene, FOXP2 supported the conclusion that both mother anddaughter had spastic dysarthria, an apraxia of speech, and residual developmental distortion errors.

TL;DR: Polysyllabic production accuracy and an oral motor examination that includes diadochokinesis may be sufficient to reliably identify CAS and rule out structural abnormality or dysarthria.

TL;DR: In this paper, language samples collected yearly for up to 11 years post-onset of symptoms from four subjects presenting with non-fluent primary progressive aphasia (PPA) were analyzed and compared with samples collected from both non-brain-damaged subjects and those with agrammatic Broca's Aphasia resulting from a single left-hemisphere stroke.