...Joanna Hoi-Man She; Emily See-Man Ching; Wilson Shing Yu; Kathy Yuet-Sheung Lee; Michael Chi-Fai Tong; Valerie J. Pereira Introduction: Nasalance is an acoustic representation of perceived nasality with proven clinical and research utility. Its validity is contingent on appropriate speech sample...

... as their nonaffected peers and about their interaction habits. This study aimed to investigate the participation frequency of school-age CWS and children who do not stutter (CWNS) in online games, the speech characteristics during games, and whether they encountered bullying-like behaviors during games. Methods...

...Gustavo Noffs; Matthew Cobler-Lichter; Thushara Perera; Scott C. Kolbe; Helmut Butzkueven; Frederique M.C. Boonstra; Anneke van der Walt; Adam P. Vogel Introduction: Smart devices are widely available and capable of quickly recording and uploading speech segments for health-related analysis...

... validity). For criterion validity, the ECSC scores were compared to those from various questionnaires that assess social functioning (QFS), psychological status (HAD), perceived speech impairment (PHI), and QOL (EORTC QLQ-H&N35) in patients. Results: Structural validity shows low to moderate inter...

...Emily Ann Coniglio; Hyunju Chung; Sarah Kenney Schellinger Introduction: The aim of the current study was to examine the effect of listeners’ experience with child speech and phonetic training on perceptual judgment of children’s word-initial /l/ productions. The acoustic correlates of acceptable...

...Hilal Burcu Ozkan; Mavis Emel Kulak Kayikci; Riza Onder Gunaydin; Fatma Figen Ozgur Introduction: Children with cleft palate exhibit differences in the 4 temporal components of nasalization (nasal onset and offset intervals, nasal consonant duration, and total speech duration), with various...

...Sara Ashley Smith; Ai Leen Choo; Stephanie R. Seitz Background: Fluency and disfluency exist on a continuum of speech production.Typically fluent speakers produce varying numbers of disfluencies; this number increases in stressful or cognitively demanding situations. Prior research indicates...

...Kerstin Johansson; Ellika Schalling; Lena Hartelius Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate self-reported cognition, speech, communication and swallowing changes in a large sample of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) in Sweden. A second aim was to update information about speech...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Nasality Speech Speech motor coordination Resonance Speech perception Nasalance The opening and closing...

...Mathieu Balaguer; Jérôme Farinas; Pascale Fichaux-Bourin; Michèle Puech; Julien Pinquier; Virginie Woisard Context: Nowadays, clinical tools are available to evaluate the functional impact of speech disorders in neurological conditions, but few are validated in oncology. Because of their location...

...Miriam Seifert; Lydia Morgan; Sarah Gibbin; Yvonne Wren Aim: To explore a novel and efficient way of calculating transcription reliability of connected speech data using the concept of near functional equivalence. Using this approach, differences between two transcribed phonemes that are nearly...

...Sarah Masso; Sharynne McLeod; Anna Cronin; Ben Phạm Objective: To examine English-speaking speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) transcription of consonants in Vietnamese words and identification of correct/incorrect productions of Vietnamese children’s speech. Participants and Methods: Twenty...

...Debbie Sell; Triona Sweeney Background/Aims: Percent consonant correct (PCC) was originally described by Shriberg and Kwiatkowski [J Speech Hear Disord. 1982 Aug;47(3):256–70] as a severity metric for phonological speech disorders, and has been adapted and used in many studies on speech sound...

...Sanne Diepeveen; Leenke van Haaften; Hayo Terband; Bert de Swart; Ben Maassen Background/Aims: Maximum repetition rate (MRR) is often used in the assessment of speech motor performance in older children and adults. The present study aimed to evaluate a standardized protocol for MRR assessment...

... – INFONO). The children’s speech production was audio-recorded, transcribed, and submitted to phonological analysis. Results: The effect of age was significant for all phonemes and syllable structures, especially when analyzed in combination with types of school and gender. Overall, phoneme production...

... is a useful complement to traditional phonetic transcription for CLP speech. Thirty-nine children consented to taking part in the project. Of these, data from 35 children (15 female, 20 male) aged 3;07–12;02 years (mean age 6;09 years) were included for transcription. Three datasets were unusable due...

... no reasonable contribution to the diagnosis of dysarthria or of any specific dimension of perceived speech impairment. MRR correlated with overall speech impairment but turned out to be an insensitive and highly unspecific statistical marker, afflicted with aetiology-specific errors. Study 2: compared...

... to have a major impact on laypersons’ attitudes. Results suggest that speech symptoms may have a very specific influence on laypersons’ evaluations. This may be important for clinical care, since symptoms with the most negative impact should be focused on in treatment. Attitudes Participation...

... exhibited mild-to-moderate impairment, while 4 had severe-to-extreme impairment, according to scores on the single-words subtest of the Protocol for the Evaluation of Speech Intelligibility in Dysarthrias (PESI). The speakers were recorded producing, by repetition, a list of 25 sentences from the sentence...

...Giuseppe Riva; Giulia Elia; Silvia Sapino; Mattia Ravera; Giancarlo Pecorari Background: Speech problems negatively affect the quality of life of patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer. An appropriate self-rating questionnaire named Speech Handicap Index (SHI) was developed...