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Pennington, Lindsay; Lombardo, Eftychia; Steen, Nick; Miller, Nick – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: The speech intelligibility of children with dysarthria and cerebral palsy has been observed to increase following therapy focusing on respiration and phonation. Aims: To determine if speech intelligibility change following intervention is associated with change in acoustic measures of voice. Methods & Procedures: We recorded 16…
Descriptors: Children, Cerebral Palsy, Speech, Acoustics
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Stockwell, Katy; Alabdulqader, Ebtisam; Jackson, Dan; Basu, Anna; Olivier, Patrick; Pennington, Lindsay – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Communication training for parents of young children with neurodisability is often delivered in groups and includes video coaching. Group teaching is problematic when there is wide variation in the characteristics and needs amongst participants. Aims: To assess the potential feasibility and acceptability of delivering one-to-one parent…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Teaching Methods, Coaching (Performance), Telecommunications
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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; Smallman, Claire; Farrier, Faith – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2006
Children with cerebral palsy often have speech, language and communication difficulties that affect their access to social and educational activities. Speech and language therapy to improve the intelligibility of the speech of children with cerebral palsy has long been advocated, but there is a dearth of research investigating therapy…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Children, Adolescents, Speech Therapy