Clinical Education

The following is a list of abstracts presented at the Motor Speech Conference in 2008:

• Speech-to-Noise Levels and Conversational Intelligibility in Hypophonia and Parkinson's Disease, S. G. Adams
  
  
• Speech Characteristics Associated with Three Genotypes of Ataxia. J.S. Ahn
  
  
• Segments and Syllables as Target Units in the Treatment of Apraxia of Speech: An Investigation of Learning and Transfer Effects. I. Aichert
  
  
• Spatio-Temporal Variability in Speakers with Parkinson's Disease. A. Anderson
  
  
• Treatment of Severe Childhood Apraxia of Speech in a 12-Year-Old Male with CHARGE Association: A Case Study. B. Baas
  
  
• Learning Sensorimotor Mappings for Speech and Limb Movements in Adults who Stutter. C. Baldwin
  
  
• Response of the motor speech system to unanticipated perturbation of the lip. K.J. Ballard
  
  
• EMA analysis of anticipatory coarticulation in apraxia of speech. C. Bartle
  
  
• The Speech Needs Questionnaire: Preliminary data from a spasmodic dysphonia sample. C. Baylor
  
  
• Formant Steadiness: Treatment Related Changes in Speakers with Hypokinetic Dysarthria. D. Beverly
  
  
• A Novel DSP Algorithm for Diagnosis of Hypokinetic Speech. A. Biswas
  
  
• Speech Breathing Emergence and Early Refinement in Infants-Children with Cerebral Palsy. C. Boliek
  
  
• Physiologic jaw tremor under different deep brain stimulator conditions in patients with Parkinson's disease. F. Boutsen
  
  
• Glossopharyngeal and neck accessory muscle breathing permit ventilator free time in a young woman with C2 complete tetraplegia and tracheostomy. D. Britton
  
  
• The Larynx Representation of the Human Motor Cortex. S. Brown
  
  
• Articulatory compensation: Interaction between target achievement, optimisation and properties of the vocal apparatus. J. Brunner
  
  
• Acoustic Features that Distinguish Canonical Syllables from Precursors. E.H. Buder
  
  
• Acoustic characteristics of VCV utterances in the speech of children. K. Bunton
  
  
• Speech Intelligibility in a Speaker with Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease Before and After Treatment. M. Cannito
  
  
• Lip Kinematics in Early vs. Late Spanish-English Bilinguals. J.E. Case
  
  
• Decreased activation in left hemisphere speech processing regions in adults who stutter during both speech perception and production. S. Chang
  
  
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess corticospinal output to lateral abdominal muscles. A. Chhabra
  
  
• Lingual and Buccal Strength: Innovations in Clinical Assessment. H. Clark
  
  
• Exploring treatment efficacy in non-progressive dysarthria: A comparison of two treatment programs. P. Cornwell
  
  
• Machine Classification of Dysarthric Productions as an AAC Input Modality. T. DiCicco
  
  
• Clients' perspectives on traditional vs. altered feedback therapy for rate control: Views of people with Parkinson Disease. C.H. Dobinson
  
  
• Consonant articulation in young adults: a palatometric study. C. Dromey
  
  
• The Effect of Hypophonia on Communication Effectiveness in Parkinson's disease. A. Dykstra
  
  
• Cortical and Subcortical Contributions to Ororhythmic Behavior. M. Estep
  
  
• On-line visual and kinematic feedback in a sound production treatment. T.R.D. Fossett
  
  
• Using a dual task paradigm to evaluate speech and limb motor function in individuals with early Parkinson disease. C. Fox
  
  
• Ultrasonic vocalization in rats after unilateral dopamine depletion or mild doses of a dopamine receptor antagonist. C. Fox
  
  
• Intensive voice treatment (LSVT) for children with spastic cerebral palsy. C. Fox
  
  
• The input-output relationship: Understanding the link between phonological memory and speech motor control. M.I. Grigos
  
  
• MERT- a self practice alternative for improving subglottal pressure and loudness. M. Hakel
  
  
• Nasal Obturation for Chronic Velopharyngeal Dysfunction of Dysarthria. M. Hakel
  
  
• The Effects of Loudness and Noise on Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson Disease. A. Halpern
  
  
• Laryngeal Engagement in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence of Decreased Scaling in Laryngeal and Respiratory Control. M.J. Hammer
  
  
• Are some letter cues more important than others in alphabet supplementation? E. Hanson
  
  
• Pauses or phonemic cues: What makes alphabet supplementation work? E. Hanson
  
  
• Influence of Punctuation and Syntax on Breath Patterns in Reading. J.E. Huber
  
  
• Relationship between fundamental frequency declination rates and perceptual judgments of dysarthric speech in individuals with cerebral palsy. K. Hustad
  
  
• Somatosensory Information Modifies Perception of Speech Sounds. T. Ito
  
  
• Comparison of Vowel Area in Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech. J. Iuzzini
  
  
• Speech effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease. A. Jacks
  
  
• Neural correlates of speaking rate and phonatory control. A. Jacks
  
  
• The effects of deep brain stimulation on speech motor programming in patients with Parkinson's disease. H.N. Jones
  
  
• Acoustic analysis of voice/speech characteristics in nonsymptomatic gene carriers of Huntington's disease. L. Kaploun
  
  
• Effects of ON and OFF deep brain stimulation on voice quality in Parkinson's disease. D. Katsnelson
  
  
• Treating consonant place of articulation in the speech of an individual with apraxia of speech using EMA-based feedback. W.F. Katz
  
  
• Patterns of speech abnormality in a large dysarthria database: Interactions between severity, acoustic features and dysarthria type. Y. Kim
  
  
• Effect of Task on Acoustic Correlates of Stress: Implications for Research Methodology. K. King
  
  
• Perception of Parkinsonian speech: Ratings by self and others vs. acoustic measures. K. Kozlosky
  
  
• Speech Intelligibility in ALS and HD: Comparison of Every Listener and Family Caregiver Perspectives. E.R. Klasner
  
  
• Using MLG and AAC to Improve Speech Production in Profound Apraxia: A Case Example. J. Lasker
  
  
• Examining Intelligibility Deficits in ALS and Huntington's Disease. J. Liss
  
  
• Vocal Responses to Loudness- and Pitch-shift Perturbations in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease. H. Liu
  
  
• Task specific control of tongue movement speed: Additional evidence from Italian speakers. A. Lofqvist
  
  
• Repetitive Speech Behavior in PD relationship to cognition and response to DAF. A. Lowit
  
  
• Perception of Syntactic Boundaries in Speech Produced by Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: The Effects of Linguistic Context, Loudness, and Listener Experience. M. MacPherson
  
  
• Intensive voice treatment of dysarthria secondary to stroke. L. Mahler
  
  
• Influence of auditory distraction upon intelligibility ratings in dysarthria. M.J. McAuliffe
  
  
• An innovative syllable transition treatment Trial for childhood apraxia of speech. P. McCabe
  
  
• Psychometric Properties of a Motor Speech Evaluation for Children: The Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill. R. McCauley
  
  
• The Ecological Validity of Intelligibility Assessment. M. McHenry
  
  
• Physiological Constraints and their Effects on Articulatory Performance in ALS. A. Mefferd
  
  
• The Effect of Loudness on Articulatory Function in Non-Dysarthric Speakers with Parkinson's Disease. B. Murdoch
  
  
• Neural Correlates of Efficacy of Voice Therapy Identified by Performance-Correlation Analysis. S. Narayana
  
  
• Speech Motor Learning in Deaf Adults. S. Nasir
  
  
• Can IOPI Be Used to Measure Tongue Pressure for Speech Sounds? A. Neel
  
  
• Percent Vital Capacity per Syllable. R. Netsell
  
  
• Articulation in children with childhood apraxia of speech or phonological disorder. L. Nijland
  
  
• Articulatory speed from 9 to 21 months: Task effects. I.S.B. Nip
  
  
• Prosodic compensations to pitch perturbation during running speech. R. Patel
  
  
• The Effect of Rate Reduction on Marking Prosodic Contrasts in Dysarthria: Pilot Results. R. Patel
  
  
• Intelligibility of a Speech Synthesizer Vocoded Using Dysarthric Vocalizations. R. Patel
  
  
• Mechanisms of Vowel Production: Auditory Goals and Speaker Acuity. J.S. Perkell
  
  
• Laryngeal function during voluntary cough: Its relationship to penetration/aspiration and voice quality in Parkinson's disease. T. Pitts
  
  
• NTrainer Treatment Reduces Suck Spatiotemporal Variability in Preterm Infants. M. Poore
  
  
• Effects of utterance length and phonologic similarity on syllable timing in healthy and dysarthirc speakers. K.J. Reilly
  
  
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Virtual Lesion Study of Speech. D. Robin
  
  
• The neural correlates of word and non-word production: Does frequency matter? M. Rogers
  
  
• Neural Plasticity and Speech Motor Learning in Older Speakers: Evidence from a Nonword Learning Task. N.Sadagopan
  
  
• A new acoustic index of dysarthric vowel articulation: A comparison with vowel space area in individuals with and without Parkinson's disease. S. Sapir
  
  
• The impact of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®) on articulatory dynamics in Parkinson's Disease. G. Schulz
  
  
• Nonword Repetition in Children and Adults: Evidence for Consolidation of Speech Motor Learning. J. Sasisekaran
  
  
• Motor learning and transfer along two continua of complexity for nonspeech oral gestures. S. Shaiman
  
  
• Studies of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders. L. Shriberg
  
  
• Task influences on articulation and voice parameters in ON and OFF deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's subjects. D. Sidtis
  
  
• Effects in Parkinson's subjects of ON vs OFF deep brain stimulation on overlearned and serial speech. D. Sidtis
  
  
• Changes in speech and regional cerebral blood flow associated with subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's Disease. J.J. Sidtis
  
  
• Word frequency and phonologic similarity: Investigations into the processes of phonological processing for speech production. J. Silkes
  
  
• Combined Modality Treatment of Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia. E. Silverman
  
  
• Orofacial Strength and Speech in Normal and Disordered Adults. N.P. Solomon
  
  
• Effects of dopaminergic medication on response preparation in Parkinson's disease. K. Spencer
  
  
• Changes in Speech Production Following Intensive Voice Therapy vs. Intensive Articulation Therapy in Parkinson Disease. J. Spielman
  
  
• Acoustic Cues to Lexical Segmentation: A Study of Resynthesized Speech. S. Spitzer
  
  
• Spontaneous speech production in apraxia of speech: Influence of sublexical frequency and structure. A. Staiger
  
  
• Study of Speech Motor Control as a Developmental Life Span Phenomena. E.T. Stathopoulos
  
  
• Use of neck and face surface EMG for controlling a prosthetic voice after total laryngectomy. C. Stepp
  
  
• Dual Task Effects of Talking While Walking: Individuals with Parkinson Disease. J. Stierwalt
  
  
• A Comparison of Vocal Tract Modes for Production of Vowels and Consonants. B. Story
  
  
• Increased levels of neural noise as the core deficit in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. H. Terband
  
  
• Validating the delivery of LSVT online. D. Theodoros
  
  
• Compensatory responses to unexpected jaw loading during speech. M.K. Tiede
  
  
• Fundamental Frequency Characteristics in Dysarthria: Effects of Rate and Loudness. K. Tjaden
  
  
• Effects of cognitive-linguistic factors on speech and language production in Parkinson's disease. M.S. Troche
  
  
• The Influence of Amplification on the Intelligibility of the Speech of Speakers w/ Dysarthria. G.S. Turner
  
  
• Relational growth of vocal tract structures with vocal tract length during the first two decades of life as visualized from MRI and CT studies. H.K. Vorperian
  
  
• Speech Production in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: Basic Kinematic Parameters and Effects of Increased Linguistic Demands on Interarticulatory Coordination. B. Walsh
  
  
• Treating Festinating Speech with Altered Auditory Feedback in Parkinson's Disease. E. Wang
  
  
• Parkinson's Disease and the Effect of Lexical Factors on Vowel Articulation. P.J. Watson
  
  
• The use of prosody by children with severe dysarthria: A Cantonese extension study. T.L. Whitehill
  
  
• Acoustic consequences of disease progression in ALS. Y. Yunusova
  
  
• Web-based clinical assessment of intelligibility in dysarthria: MVP-Online. W. Ziegler