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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: This guide will offer an invaluable insight into the role of the SLT and present assessment and referral criteria and can be a point of reference for the speech and language therapy practice.
Abstract: Background Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) has an important role in the management of Huntington9s disease (HD). During the progression of the disease, HD patients will experience communication problems, language difficulties, dysarthria and dysphagia. Therefore, regular assessment and review by a SLT is an essential component of the management in HD. However, there are no European guidelines for the management of HD patients. Methods As part of the European Huntington9s Disease Network (EHDN) Standards of Care Working Group, a specialist interest group in Speech and Language Therapy has been created with the aim of developing evidence-based clinical guidelines as well as identifying areas for further research. The currently available literature has been systematically reviewed, and expert clinicians participating in the group have contributed their consensus view for the clinical management of these difficulties in HD. Results A Speech and Language Therapy guideline, which has been developed by the European Huntington9s Disease Network, Standards of Care, Speech and Language Therapy Group. Conclusion The Speech and Language Therapy guideline shows the need for special care and treatment. The guidance document can be a point of reference for the speech and language therapy practice. For other clinicians and physicians involved in the management of HD, this guide will offer an invaluable insight into the role of the SLT and present assessment and referral criteria.

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TL;DR: The authors reported acoustic measures of vowel production for individuals with dysarthria secondary to Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, and healthy controls. But, their results were limited to a small subset of speakers.
Abstract: The impact of dysarthria on vowel production has been demonstrated in a variety of studies. Acoustically, these deficits often take the form of a reduced or collapsed vowel space area, reduced F2 interquartile range, and reduced vowel transition slopes and extents. Research further suggests that these segmental deficits may help to explain reduced intelligibility or overall speech severity, at least for some speakers with dysarthria. Clear speech shows some promise for improving vowel production in dysarthria as well as for maximizing intelligibility. Comparative group studies investigating clear speech in dysarthria are lacking, however. The current study will report acoustic measures of vowel production for individuals with dysarthria secondary to Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, and healthy controls. As part of a larger study, speakers read 25 Harvard Sentences in a variety of speaking conditions, including Habitual or conversational and Clear. Static and dynamic segmental measures of vowel production will be reported. Group effects as well as individual speaker trends will be explored. [Work supported by NIH.]

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TL;DR: Critchley (1970: 281) entertained the view that this cerebral resilience extended well into the second decade of life.
Abstract: For a long time the opinion prevailed that disorders of language or of speech following brain damage in children who had already begun to acquire their mother-tongue were transitory. It was assumed that, due to the plasticity of the young brain, uninjured cerebral parts could fairly quickly take over and ensure recovery and further development of verbal skills. Critchley (1970: 281) entertained the view that this cerebral resilience extended well into the second decade of life.

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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: This chapter focuses on five types of neurologically based communicative disorders: dysarthria, apraxia, aphasia, traumatic brain injury, and dysphagia.
Abstract: This chapter focuses on five types of neurologically based communicative disorders: dysarthria, apraxia, aphasia, traumatic brain injury, and dysphagia. Apraxia and dysarthria are motor speech disorders that affect expressive speech abilities. Aphasia is characterized by expressive and/or receptive language impairment. Disorders such as dysarthria and apraxia often occur simultaneously with aphasia.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of prosodic aspects of almost unintelligible dysarthric patients' speech indicates that the strange reaction their speech causes in their listeners is mainly due to the prosodic strategies they use (consciouslly or not) to improve their oral language intelligibility.
Abstract: According to Felizatti (1998), dysarthria is a disorder in motor production that affects patterns of movement, coordination and strenght of articulatory organs. It can be caused by brain damage and it is usually characterized by slow speech. The analysis of some prosodic aspects of almost unintelligible dysarthric patients’speech indicates that the strange reaction their speech causes in their listeners is mainly due to the prosodic strategies they use (consciouslly or not) to improve their oral language intelligibility.In other words, despite the fact that dysarthric patients’s brain lesions cause articulatory difficulties, they are able to compensate them through prosody.

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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2023229
2022415
2021164
2020138
2019125
201888