Published in Logopedics, phoniatrics, vocology
Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease. The characteristic symptoms of the disease are muscle weakness and fatigue. These symptoms affect de oral muscles causing dysarthria, affecting about 60% of patients with disease progression. Describe the speech pattern of patients with MG and comparing with healthy controls (HC). Case-control study....
Published in International journal of speech-language pathology
Purpose: Yolŋu are Aboriginal Australians from northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory (NT). Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) prevalence in the NT Aboriginal population is the highest in the world. Yolŋu living with progressive dysarthria associated with MJD could benefit from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). However, there are...
Published in IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) results in progressive paralysis of voluntary muscles throughout the body. As speech deteriorates, individuals rely on pre-programmed messages available on commercial speech generating devices to communicate using one of the generic electronic voices on the device. To replace these generic voices and restore voca...
Dysarthria is a speech disorder disease that can have a significant impact on a person's daily life. Early detection of the disease can put the patient into therapy sessions more quickly. Researchers have established various approaches to detect the disease automatically. Traditional computational approaches commonly analysed acoustic features like...
Dysarthria is a speech disorder that can significantly impact a person’s daily life, and yet may be amenable to therapy. To automatically detect and classify dysarthria, researchers have proposed various computational approaches ranging from traditional speech processing methods focusing on speech rate, intelligibility, intonation, etc. to more adv...
Published in Journal of neuromuscular diseases
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a late onset progressive neuromuscular disorder. Although dysphagia is a pivotal sign in OPMD it is still not completely understood. The aim of this study was to systematically investigate oropharyngeal functioning in a large OPMD population. Forty-eight genetically confirmed OPMD patients completed ques...
Published in Cureus
Isolated dysarthria is a speech abnormality characterized by slurring without any language dysfunction, or other neurological deficits. In an acute setting, it is commonly associated with stroke. In the context of social distancing during the current corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, nondisabling symptoms such as isolated dysarthria ca...
Published in Disability and rehabilitation
The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment (FDA-2) and to use this tool to describe the features of speech in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The Japanese version of FDA-2 was culturally adapted, and reliability and validity were examined in 22 and 50 ...
Published in Medicina
Background and objectives : Speech disorders are observed in 30% of newly diagnosed sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Characterized by a dynamic course, dysfunction of articulation has not so far been well understood. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of demographic factors (sex, age, duration of the disease) a...
Published in International Journal of Medical Sciences
Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is one of the most frequently occurring neurodegenerative diseases affecting speech and swallowing. This preliminary study aimed to investigate whether an autologous lineage-negative stem/progenitor cell therapy applied to ALS patients affects the level of selected trophic and proinflammatory factors,...
