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Dysarthria
About: Dysarthria is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2402 publications have been published within this topic receiving 56554 citations.
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TL;DR: A systematic review examining the presence and nature of language disorders associated with Huntington disease showed that HD is associated with difficulties in producing and understanding sentences and discourse, processing semantic representations of object and action concepts, retrieving lexical forms of nouns, and applying morphological and syntactic rules.
Abstract: Objective:A systematic review examining the presence and nature of language disorders associated with Huntington disease (HD).Background:HD is characterized by gradual motor dysfunction, psychiatric problems, and cognitive decline. Communication abilities in HD may be affected not only by dysarthria
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TL;DR: The findings confirmed voice dysfunction as a component of dysarthria in children treated for cerebellar tumour, and discussed the links between acoustic and perceptual descriptions.
Abstract: The aim of the study was firstly to document the acoustic parameters of voice using the Multidimensional Voice Program (MDVP, Kay Elemetrics) in a group of children with dysarthria subsequent to treatment for cerebellar tumour (CT). Then, secondly, compare the acoustic findings to perceptual voice characteristics as described by the GIRBAS (grade, instability, roughness, breathiness, asthenicity, strain). The assessments were performed on 29 voice samples; 9 cerebellar tumour participants with dysarthria, and 20 control participants. None of the control voices were rated as exhibiting any of the six parameters described by the GIRBAS, while 7 of the CT participants were noted to have at least a mild voice disorder. Roughness, instability, breathiness and asthenicity were all identified as voice characteristics in the CT voice samples. Acoustically, the CT voice samples differed significantly from the controls' voices on frequency and amplitude perturbation measures. Our findings confirmed voice dysfunction as a component of dysarthria in children treated for cerebellar tumour, and discussed the links between acoustic and perceptual descriptions.
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TL;DR: The results showed that the most severely affected prosodic parameters were monopitch, harsh voice, and monoloudness, followed by breathy voice and prolonged interval, and the involvement of two new dimensions in the definition of prosody (voice quality and degree of reduction) provides additional insight in differentiating patients with mild and moderate dysarthria.
Abstract: Background: Dysprosody is a common feature in speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria. However, speech prosody varies across different types of speech materials. This raises the question of what is the most appropriate speech material for the evaluation of dysprosody.Aims: To characterize the prosodic impairment in Cantonese speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease, and to determine the effect of different types of speech stimuli on the perceptual rating of prosody.Methods & Procedures: Speech data in the form of sentence reading, passage reading, and monologue were collected from ten Cantonese speakers with Parkinson's disease. Perceptual analysis was conducted on ten prosodic parameters to evaluate five dimensions of prosody, based on a theoretical framework: pitch, loudness, duration, voice quality, and degree of reduction.Outcomes & Results: The results showed that the most severely affected prosodic parameters were monopitch, harsh voice, and monoloudness, followed by bre...
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TL;DR: Dysarthria and dysphagia were found to be highly prevalent among patients with neuromuscular disease (NMD) and overall, there was a higher prevalence of dysarthria than dysphagio.
Abstract: There is a high prevalence of dysphagia in patients with neuromuscular diseases and stroke, and consequences can be profound. However, the correlation of dysarthria and oral-oropharyngeal dysphagia remains unclear. This review aimed to define the clinical co-presentation of dysarthria and dysphagia in this population. A PubMed search to identify literature on the prevalence of dysarthria and dysphagia was systematically conducted in the English language literature since 1995. Subjective and objective outcomes instruments were identified for both dysarthria and dysphagia. Studies that included prevalence and co-presentation were included. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA). Of the 1,056 articles identified in the search, 20 articles met the search criteria. An additional 4 articles were examined for a total of 24 articles for analysis. Dysarthria and dysphagia were found to be highly prevalent among patients with neuromuscular disease (NMD). Overall, there was a higher prevalence of dysarthria than dysphagia. Of those patients with dysphagia, some reports estimate 76-90% of patients with NMD also had dysarthria. Dysarthria is a strong clinical clue to the presence of dysphagia. Existing subjective questionnaires may not reveal the presence of oropharyngeal dysphagia, but objective measures are more revealing. Further study to correlate the degree of dysarthria and severity of oral-oropharyngeal dysphagia are warranted.
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TL;DR: A symposium on Communicative Participation & Motor Speech Disorders: Clinical & Research Perspectives at the 2010 ASHA Convention.
Abstract: Symposium on Communicative Participation & Motor Speech Disorders: Clinical & Research Perspectives at the 2010 ASHA Convention
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