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Validity of acoustic speech measures obtained through videoconferencing with children with dysarthria
Purpose: Children with dysarthria due to cerebral palsy often face barriers to receiving speech-language pathology services. Using …
Kyunghae Hwang, Frits van Brenk, Megan J. McAuliffe, Jiyoung Choi, Jan G Švec, Young Hwa M. Chang, Bryan Keller, Erika S. Levy
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Progress Toward Estimating the Minimal Clinically Important Difference of Intelligibility: A Crowdsourced Perceptual Experiment
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to estimate the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of sentence …
Kaila L. Stipancic, Frits van Brenk, Mengyang Qiu, Kris Tjaden
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Effects of Speaking Rate on Variability of Second Formant Frequency Transitions in Dysarthria
Introduction: This study examined the utility of multiple second formant (F2) slope metrics to capture differences in speech production …
Frits van Brenk, Anja Lowit, Kris Tjaden
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No Differential Effects of Subthalamic Nucleus vs. Globus Pallidus Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease: Speech Acoustic and Perceptual Findings
Background: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in the Subthalamic Nucleus (STN) or the Globus Pallidus Interna (GPI) is well-established as a …
Frits van Brenk, Kaila L. Stipancic, Andrea Rohl, Daniel Corcos, Kris Tjaden, Jeremy D.W. Greenlee
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Modeling Responses to Auditory Feedback Perturbations in Adults, Children, and Children With Complex Speech Sound Disorders: Evidence for Impaired Auditory Self-Monitoring?
Purpose: Previous studies have found that typically developing (TD) children were able to compensate and adapt to auditory feedback …
Hayo Terband, Frits van Brenk
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ClearSpeechTogether: a Rater Blinded, Single, Controlled Feasibility Study of Speech Intervention for People with Progressive Ataxia
Background Progressive ataxias frequently lead to speech disorders and consequently impact on communication participation and …
Anja Lowit, Jessica Cox, Melissa Loucas, Jennifer Grassly, Aisling Egan, Frits van Brenk, Marios Hadjivassiliou
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Clear Speech Variants: An Investigation of Intelligibility and Speaker Effort in Speakers With Parkinson's Disease
Purpose: This study investigated the effects of three clear speech variants on sentence intelligibility and speaking effort for …
Kaila Stipancic, Frits van Brenk, Alexander Kain, Greg Wilding, Kris Tjaden
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Intelligibility Across a Reading Passage: The Effect of Dysarthria and Cued Speaking Styles
Objective: Reading a passage out loud is a commonly used task in the perceptual assessment of dysarthria. The extent to which …
Frits van Brenk, Kaila Stipancic, Alexander Kain, Kris Tjaden
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Investigating Acoustic Correlates of Intelligibility Gains and Losses During Slowed Speech: A Hybridization Approach
Auditory feedback plays an important role in speech motor learning, yet, little is known about the strength of motor learning and …
Frits van Brenk, Alexander Kain, Kris Tjaden
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Compensatory and adaptive responses to real-time formant shifts in adults and children
Auditory feedback plays an important role in speech motor learning, yet, little is known about the strength of motor learning and …
Frits van Brenk, Hayo Terband
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