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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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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