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Pennington, Lindsay; Miller, Nick; Robson, Sheila; Steen, Nick – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2010
Aim: To investigate whether speech therapy using a speech systems approach to controlling breath support, phonation, and speech rate can increase the speech intelligibility of children with dysarthria and cerebral palsy (CP). Method: Sixteen children with dysarthria and CP participated in a modified time series design. Group characteristics were…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Systems Approach, Assistive Technology, Speech Therapy
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Pennington, Lindsay; Miller, Nick – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
Little is known about the effects of listener characteristics or listening conditions on intelligibility scores. This study compared intelligibility scores of dysarthric speech achieved under a standard listening condition with those obtained in non-standard conditions and investigated the effect of listener age, gender and familiarity with…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Speech Impairments, Age Differences, Gender Differences