Clinical Education

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

• 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Registration There will be a light reception and cash bar during early registration.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

• 8:00 AM Welcome
• 8:15 AM Session 1: Diff Diagnosis - Disorders

• Differential diagnosis of 56 children with suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech - Murray

• Diagnostic Signs of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Idiopathic, Neurogenetic, and Complex Neurodevelopmental Contexts - Shriberg

• The use of long-term average spectra (LTAS) in discriminating dysarthria types - Utianski

• Diagnostic measures of speech loss in persons with ALS: A comparison of non-speech and speech tasks - Wilson

• 9:50 AM Break
• 10:05 AM Session 2: Normal Development

• Development of speech motor tracts from late childhood to adulthood - Morgan

• Developmental Trajectory for Production of Prosody: Lexical Stress Contrastivity in Children 3 to 7 Years and Adults - Ballard

• Timing Relationships Between Vocalization and Breath Support in Infants - Parham

• Decreased EMG activity during disfluent speech and asymmetrical activation of lower lip: A study of preschoolers who stutter and their typically fluent peers - Walsh

• 11:30 AM Lunch

• 1:00 PM Special Session 1: A Tale of Two Primary Motor Areas: “Old” and “New” M1 - Dr. Peter Strick
  VA Senior Research Career Scientist at Pittsburgh VAMC
  Director, Systems Neuroscience Institute
  Co-Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
  Professor, Department of Neurobiology
  University of Pittsburgh

• 2:30 PM Break
• 2:45 PM Session 3: Classification

• Phenotypic profiles in a family of 11 with a speech-sound disorder of suspected genetic origin. - Carrigg

• Perceptual similarity of dysarthric speech - Lansford

• Towards a typology of intonation in motor speech disorders - Lowit

• Dysarthria syndromes in adult cerebral palsy - Schoelderle

• 4:05 PM Poster Session

• A Comparison of Throat and Head Microphones in a PDA-based evaluation of hypophonia in Parkinson’s disease - Adams

• Factors influencing the error patterns of patients with apraxia of speech: Group effects and individual variation - Aichert

• Investigation of Feedback Schedules on Speech Motor Learning in Individuals with Apraxia of Speech - Bislick

• Effects of LSVT® LOUD (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment) on speech intelligibility in children with Cerebral Palsy - Boliek

• Comparing variability in speech motor control in dysarthria with perceptual and acoustic assessments - Brenk

• Social Participation and Speech Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease - Brown

• Lexically-conditioned phonetic variation in acquired sound production impairment - Buchwald

• Reduced arm kinaesthetic sensitivity in spasmodic dysphonia - Chen

• Impact of global and local prosodic strategies on intelligibility in children with motor speech impairment - Connaghan

• Lexical stress production in healthy and apraxia speakers of French and Australian-English - Courson

• Comparison of intelligibility, comprehensibility and acceptability of typical dysarthric speech by older and younger normal adults - Dagenais

• Vocal modulation in MS: A potential clinical marker - Dromey

• Contributors to speech intelligibility in preschool-aged children with cerebral palsy - DuHadway

• Examining conversational speech intelligibility in individuals with hypophonia and Parkinson’s disease - Dykstra

• Speech Hesitations and Neuropsychological Function in Multiple Sclerosis - Feenaughty

• Controlling a formant synthesizer using a non-invasive brain-machine interface - Brumberg

• Development of Velopharyngeal Closure in Young Children: Preliminary Observations - Bunton

• Validation of a standardized Computer Articulation Instrument (CAI) for children - Maassen

• Longitudinal Investigation of Speech Motor Coordination and Language-Motor Interactions in Children Who Stutter - MacPherson

• The Relative Contribution of the Lower Lip and Jaw Across the Lifespan - Mefferd

• The Effect of Practice Schedules on Short- and Longer-term Nonword Acquisition and Retention - Scheiner

• Developmental changes in speech movement variability - Schotz

• A model of vocal tract growth and acoustic characteristics of vowels - Story

• Relating the kinematic variability of speech to the overt and covert features of developmental stuttering - Beal

• 5:45 PM Reception and Dinner (included with registration)

Friday, March 2, 2012

• 8:00 AM Session 4: Dysarthria

• A longitudinal study of communicative participation in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis: latent classes and predictors - Baylor

• Supplemented Speech Recognition for Dysarthria - Fager

• Effect of Speech Sample Type on Intelligibility and Rate Measures in Children with Dysarthria - Hodge

• Interaction of Syntactic Complexity, Memory Load, and Balance in Parkinson’s Disease - Saletta

• 9:20 AM Break
• 9:35 AM Session 5: Neurologic Basis

• Event related potentials reveal temporal mechanisms of speech relevant somatosensory-auditory interaction - Ito

• Patterns of Brain Activity Associated with Formant Stability During Vowel Production - Sidtis

• The tree structure of speech motor plans: a neurophonetic perspective - Ziegler

• 10:35 AM Break
• 10:50 AM Session 6: Adaptation and Compensation

• Sensorimotor Adaptation in Severe Dysarthria - Berry

• The Benefit of Stretched Speech: Increased articulatory precision or increased processing time? - McHenry

• Neural correlates of chronic dysarthria associated with TBI sustained in childhood - Morgan

• 11:50 AM Posters

• A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of LSVT/LOUD on Narrative Discourse and Communicative Gesture in Parkinson disease - Halpern

• A Comparison of Stimulability Testing with Treatment Outcomes in Parkinson Disease - Hannon

• Effects of LSVT® LOUD (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment) on speech intelligibility in children with Down syndrome - Boliek

• Frequency of apical and laminal /s/ in normal and post-glossectomy patients - Stone

• Predicting Speech Intelligibility Scores of Children with Dysarthria and Cerebral Palsy from Phonetic Measures of Speech Accuracy - Hodge

• Voice onset time comparison of children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Phonological Disorders, and typical speech development - Iuzzini

• Effects of EMST (Expiratory Muscle Strength Training) on Speech and Respiration in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) - Johansson

• Treatment effects in Voice Onset Time of plosives due to deep brain stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus and the Caudal Zona Incerta - Karlsson

• The same dysarthria in different languages: Perceptual and acoustic characteristics of Korean speakers with Parkinson Disease - Kim

• Functional near-infrared spectroscopy correlates of ALS-related speech motor, cognitive, and language deficits - Kuruvilla

• The effects of two speech interventions on functional intelligibility in pediatric dysarthria - Levy

• Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Kinematic & Perceptual Outcomes of Treatment - Lewis

• Long-time Average Spectrum in Individuals with Parkinson Disease: Medication Effects - Lindenbaum

• Management of Glottal Incompetence with Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) Program - Lu

• Anticipatory coarticulation in typically developing children and in children with speech disorders - Maas

• Neural control of fundamental frequency rise and fall in Mandarin tones - Howell

• Acoustic-Perceptual Relationships in Clear Speech - Lam

• New Technique for Averaging Voice Fundamental Frequency Responses to Pitch-Shifted Feedback - Larson

• The Development of Speech Motor Control: Effects of Speaker Sex, Age, and Linguistic Demands - MacPherson

• Age-Related Changes in Oro-Facial Speed Capacity - Mefferd

• Unexpected intensity changes in the ear canal during pitch shift experiment - Szuminsky

• Effects of errorless learning on velopharyngeal movement control - Wong

• Acoustic characteristics of respiratory-induced vocal tremor - Lester

• Sensorimotor Adaptation of Speech Using Real-Time Articulatory Synthesis - Berry

• Generating personalized speech synthesis for speakers with dysarthria using source-filter theory - Patel

• 1:20 PM Afternoon free

Saturday, March 3, 2012

• 8:00 AM Session 7: AOS

• The role of auditory feedback during speech production in apraxia of speech - Maas

• Spatial-Temporal Coupling of the Oral Articulators in Childhood Apraxia of Speech - Moss

• Primary Progressive Apraxia Of Speech: Neurologic and Neuroimaging Correlates - Strand

• Knowledge of speech motor plans in normal adult speakers and in individuals with apraxia of speech - VanderMerwe

• 9:20 AM Break

• 9:35 AM Special Session: Clinicopathological, genetic and imaging associations of progressive speech and language disorders: A neurologist’s perspective - Dr. Keith Josephs
  Professor of Neurology
  College of Medicine
  Mayo Clinic

• 11:05 AM Break
• 11:20 AM Session 8: General Motor Control

• Neural Substrates of Force Control in Tongue Speech and Nonspeech Movements - Dietsch

• Compensation and adaptation following auditory feedback perturbation in L2 learners of English - Katseff

• Some people prefer the feel of their speech to the sound: On sensory preference during speech motor learning - Lametti

• Measuring 3D tongue fdeformation based on the muscular hydrostat model - Murano

• 12:40 PM Lunch
• 2:00 PM Session 9: Treatment I

• Evidence of microstructural changes in the brain following intensive voice treatment (LSVT®LOUD) for children with spastic cerebral palsy and dysarthria - Boliek

• Changes to Physiology as a Result of a New Treatment, SpeechVive(TM), for Individuals with Parkinson’s disease - Huber

• Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for articulatory dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease - Murdoch

• 3:00 PM Posters

• The effect of increased vocal intensity on interarticulator timing in Parkinson’s disease: A preliminary analysis - Richardson

• Development of a framework for evaluating the pre-practice component motor learning in therapy - McCabe

• Diagnostic Methods in Childhood Apraxia of Speech Research: 2001-2010 - McCauley

• Comparison of Speech and Non-Speech Preferred Motor Tempo in Parkinson Disease - Miller

• AAC Users’ Recommendations for Improving Patient-Provider Communication - Morris

• The effect of weakness on speech and swallowing in Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy - Neel

• Multiple stop bursts in normal adults and individuals with Parkinson Disease - Parveen

• Relationship Between Prosody and Intelligibility in Children with Dysarthria - Patel

• Effects of intervention on the speech intelligibility of children with cerebral palsy and dysarthria - Pennington

• Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor: A very long-term follow-up of speech and voice - Rosendal

• Acoustic metrics of dysarthric vowel articulation: Correlation with self-rated speech by speakers with Parkinson's disease and healthy control - Sapir

• Voice use and effects of biofeedback in Parkinson’s disease, studied with a newly developed portable voice accumulator, the VoxLog - Schalling

• Effect of speech task on severe stuttering in Parkinson’s disease - D. Sidtis

• Preservation of relational timing in Parkinsonian speech with and without DBS - D. Sidtis

• Relation of constriction location, formant transitions, and consonant identification based on VCVs simulated with a child-like model of speech production - Bunton

• Modulation of auditory responses during speech planning: high-density EEG analyses - Daliri

• Comparing Velopharyngeal Function in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorder - Gallagher

• Context-induced sound errors in apraxia of speech - Staiger

• Sensorimotor response to segmental perturbations of auditory speech feedback: adaptation, generalization, and contrast distance - Reilly

• Speech rate strategies in younger and older adults - Terband

• Investigation of Feedback Schedules on Speech Motor Learning - Weir

• Influence of Speaker Intent on Speech Movement Variability - Yang

Sunday, March 4, 2012

• 8:00 AM Posters

• Relationship between Relative Fundamental Frequency and Parkinson’s Disease - Stepp

• Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) Intervention changes for velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) sixteen years post onset - Stierwalt

• Does speech function correlate with non-speech motor function in Parkinson’s disease? - E. Wang

• Lateral jaw stability in children with developmental speech disorders - Terband

• Patient Perceptions of Speech Production Pre and Post Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery - Troche

• Stimulus Generalization Effects of Treatment for Acquired Apraxia of Speech - Wambaugh

• Stage-based deterioration of speech motor performances in early ALS - J. Wang

• Are lesion studies still the golden standard for speech research? - Flagmeier

• Can Single/Triple Pulse TMS Provide Insight into Speech Production? - Shuster

• The auditory-perceptual speech features in adults and children with Down syndrome - Jones

• Articulation in Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Bolinger

• Speech Stability in Stuttering and Nonstuttering Speakers: Influence of Task Complexity - Blomgren

• Kinematic Characteristics of Speaking Rate in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy: A Preliminary Study - Nip

• The Functional Connectivity of Broca’s Area: A Meta-analytic Approach - Manes

• Responses to manipulations in auditory feedback: The effect of aging - Schaefer

• Electropalatographic Measures of Stop Consonants in Speakers with and without Apraxia of Speech on Repeated Sampling Occasions - Mauszycki

• Intensity perturbation during running speech - Patel

• The Efficacy of PROMPT in Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech - Hayden

• 9:30 AM Session 10: General Motor Control

• Speech production in noise and the control of sibilant contrasts - Reilly

• Effects of practice type on speech motor acquisition and retention in healthy young and elderly adults - Sadagopan

• Gating of Laryngeal Somatosensory Detection During Active Phonation - Hammer

• 10:30 AM Break
• 10:45 AM Session 11: Treatment II

• Impact of intensive treatment targeting loudness or articulation on facial and vocal expression in Parkinson disease (PD) - Spielman

• Treatment for Acquired Apraxia of Speech: Examination of Treatment Intensity and Practice Schedule - Wambaugh

• Treatment of dysarthria in two adults with Down syndrome - Mahler

• 12:00 PM Adjournment