...Ossama A. Sobhy; Rania M. Abdou; Sara Magdy Ibrahim; Nesrine H. Hamouda Background: The role of prosody in language acquisition and effective communication is documented in research. Nevertheless, rehabilitation of prosodic skills in children with hearing impairment using hearing aids or cochlear...

...Alice Lee; Joseph Nyland; Sue Peppé Introduction: Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C) is a computerised test for assessing the abilities to understand and use speech prosody in communication. It has been used to obtain a profile of strengths and weaknesses in different...

.... Adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder Narrow focus Prosody Prosody refers to the pitch, intensity, and durational qualities of speech [ 1 ]. These acoustic, suprasegmental changes create different prosodic features, such as intonation, lexical stress, and sentential emphasis, also termed...

.... Rate reduction Prosody Dysarthria Acoustics Contrastive stress Question-statement contrast Rate reduction is often used as a means to increase intelligibility in dysarthria (DYS) [ 1,2,3,4 ]. Decreasing speaking rate alters articulatory movement [ 1,5 ], such that articulatory...

...Guylaine Le Dorze; Nathalie Lever; John Ryalls; Christine Brassard Des données acoustiques sont proposées pour faciliter l’valuation de la parole de patients présentant des troubles de la prosodie tels la dysarthrie. Ces données ont été recueillies auprès de 40 sujets francophones, sans maladie...