2008 Program

Program Information

Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Motor Speech:
Motor Speech Disorders & Speech Motor Control

March 6-9, 2008
Monterey, California

Motor Speech Disorders
Co-Conference Chair: Kathryn Yorkston, Ph.D.
Program Chair: Julie Liss, Ph.D.
Speech Motor Control
Co-Conference Chair: Christy Ludlow, Ph.D.
Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Program Chair Don Finan, Ph.D.
Publications: Christopher Dromey, Ph.D.
Local Arrangements: Jim Till
Conference Management: Mark Hakel, Ph. D.

Acknowledgment: This conference has been sponsored in part by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, the Department of Special Education & Communication Disorders, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, the Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

ASHA’s Special Interest Division 2, Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. This program is offered for up to 2.3 CEUs (advanced level; professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.

An annual ASHA CE Registry fee is required to register ASHA CEU’s. CE Registry fees are paid by the participant directly to the ASHA National Office. The annual CE Registry fee allows registration of an unlimited number of ASHA CEUs for the calendar year. Contact the ASHA CE staff at 800.498.2071, ext 4219 for CE Registry fee subscription information.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

• 7:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
• 8:00 Welcome
• 8:30 Parkinson's Disease
• Vocal Responses to Loudness- and Pitch-Shift Perturbations in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease

  H. Liu, E. Wang, L. Metman, C. Larson

• Speech Production in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: Basic Kinematic Parameters and Effects of Increased Linguistic Demands on Interarticulatory Coordination

  B. Walsh, A. Smith

• Spatio-temporal variability in speakers with Parkinson's Disease

  A. Anderson, A. Lowit, C. Dobinson, P. Howell

• Laryngeal Engagement in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence of Decreased Scaling in Laryngeal and Respiratory Control

  M. Hammer

• 10:30 Break
• 11:00 Development
• Acoustic Features that Distinguish Canonical Syllables from Precursors

  E. Buder, D. Oller, H. Ramsdell, L. Chorna

• The input-output relationship: Understanding the link between phonological memory and speech motor control

  M. Grigos, C. Reuterskiold, N. Erwin

• Articulatory speed from 9 to 21 months: Task effects

  I. Nip, J. Green

• 12:30 Lunch Break
• 2:00 Assessment
• The ecological validity of intelligibility assessment

  M. McHenry, J. Darilek

• A new acoustic index of dysarthric vowel articulation (Complex Vowel Formant Ratio: CVFR): A comparison with vowel space area in individuals with and without Parkinson's disease

  S. Sapir, L. Ramig, J. Spielman

• Web-based clinical assessment of intelligibility in dysarthria: MVP-Online

  W. Ziegler, A. Zierdt

• 3:30 Intro to Poster Session
• 3:45 Poster Session
• Articulatory compensation: Interaction between target achievement, optimisation and the properties of the vocal apparatus

  J. Brunner, P. Hoole, P. Perrier

• Effect of Task on Acoustic Correlates of Stress: Implications for Research Methodology

  K. King, M. Rastatter, K. O'Brien

• Task specific control of tongue movement speed: Additional evidence from Italian speakers

  A. Lofqvist

• Prosodic compensations to pitch perturbation during in running speech

  R. Patel, P. Campellone, K. Reilly, C. Niziolek, F. Guenther

• Dual Task Effects of Talking While Walking: Individuals with Parkinson Disease

  J. Stierwalt, L. LaPointe, C. Maitland, G. Heald

• Speech effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease

  A. Jacks, D. Robin, S. Narayana, P. Fox

• A Novel DSP Algorithm for Diagnosis of Hypokinetic Speech

  A. Biswas

• Use of neck and face surface EMG for controlling a prosthetic voice after total laryngectomy

  C. Stepp, J. Heaton, R. Hillman

• Task influences on articulation and voice parameters in ON and OFF deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's subjects

  D. Sidtis, D. Katsnelson, T. Rogers, J. Sidtis

• The effects of deep brain stimulation on speech motor programming in patients with Parkinson's disease

  H. Jones, D. Kendall, M. Okun, S. Wu, J. Rosenbek

• Speech Intelligibility in a Speaker with Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease Before and After Treatment

  M. Cannito, D. Suiter, L. Chorna, D. Beverly, T. Wolf, J. Watkins

• Effects of cognitive-linguistic factors on speech and language production in Parkinson's disease

  M. Troche, L. Altmann, J. Rosenbek, R. Shrivastav, C. Sapienza

• Orofacial Strength and Speech in Normal and Disordered Adults

  N. Solomon, H. Clark, M. Makashay, L. Newman

• EMA analysis of anticipatory coarticulation in apraxia of speech

  C. Bartle, J. Goozee, B. Murdoch

• Speech-to-Noise Levels and Conversational Intelligibility in Hypophonia and Parkinson's Disease

  S. Adams, A. Dykstra, M. Jenkins, M. Jog

• Machine Classification of Dysarthric Productions as an AAC Input Modality

  T. DiCicco, R. Patel

• Treating consonant place of articulation in the speech of an individual with apraxia of speech using EMA-based feedback

  W. Katz, D. Garst, G. Carter, T. Fossett, M. McNeil, N. Szuminsky, P. Doyle

• Treating Festinating Speech with Altered Auditory Feedback in Parkinson's disease-A Preliminary Report

  E. Wang, L. Verhagen Metman

• Influence of Punctuation and Syntax on Breath Patterns in Reading

  J. Huber, M. Darling, E. Francis

• Using a dual task paradigm to evaluate speech and limb motor function in individuals with early Parkinson disease

  C. Fox, C. Collins, B. Farley, L. Ramig, D. Finan

• Transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess corticospinal output to lateral abdominal muscles

  A. Chhabra, S. Schwerin, E. Kleim, J. Kleim, C. Sapienza

• 5:30 Adjourn for Day

Friday, March 7, 2008

• 7:30 Continental Breakfast
• 8:00 Models of Production
• The Larynx Representation of the Human Motor Cortex

  S. Brown

• Neural correlates of speaking rate and phonatory control

  A. Jacks, R. Ingham, M. Cykowski, C. Franklin, R. Selman, P. Fox

• Mechanisms of Vowel Production: Auditory Goals and Speaker Acuity

  J. Perkell, S. Ghosh, F. Guenther, H. Lane, M. Matthies, L. Menard, M. Tiede

• The neural correlates of word and non-word production: Does frequency matter?

  M. Rogers, S. McLaughlin, R. Pompon

• 10:00 Break
• 10:15 Issues in Pediatric Motor Speech Disorders
• Speech Breathing Emergence and Early Refinement in Infants-Children with Cerebral Palsy

  C. Boliek, T. Hixon, P. Jones, L. Gan

• An Innovative Syllable Transition Treatment Trial for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

  P. McCabe, K. Ballard, D. Robin

• Psychometric Properties of a Motor Speech Evaluation for Children: The Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill

  R. McCauley, E. Strand, S. Weigand

• Studies of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  L. Shriberg

• 12:15 Intro to Poster Session
• 12:30 Poster Session
• Consonant articulation in young adults: a palatometric study

  C. Dromey, M. Sanders

• Cortical and Subcortical Contributions to Ororhythmic Behavior

  M. Estep, S. Barlow, E. Auer

• Effects of utterance length and phonologic similarity on syllable timing in healthy and dysarthric speakers

  K. Reilly, K. Spencer

• A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Virtual Lesion Study of Speech

  D. Robin, F. Guenther, S. Narayana, A. Jacks, J. Tourville, A. Ramage, J. Lancaster, C. Franklin, S. Ghosh, P. Fox

• A Comparison of Vocal Tract Modes for Production of Vowels and Consonants

  B. Story, K. Bunton

• Acoustic analysis of voice /speech characteristics in nonsymptomatic gene carriers of Huntington's disease: does the speech/voice differ from non HD controls?

  L. Kaploun, J. Saxman

• Intelligibility of a Speech Synthesizer Vocoded Using Dysarthric Vocalizations

  R. Patel, A, Roden

• The Effect of Hypophonia on Communication Effectiveness in Parkinson's disease

  A. Dykstra, S. Adams, M. Jog

• The Effects of Loudness and Noise on Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson Disease

  A. Halpern, J. Spielman, L. Ramig, A. Sharpley, I. Panzer

• Treatment of Severe Childhood Apraxia of Speech in a 12-year-old male with CHARGE Association: A case study

  B. Baas, E. Strand, L. Elmer, W. Barbaresi

• Effects in Parkinson's subjects of ON vs OFF deep brain stimulation on overlearned and serial speech

  D. Sidtis, T. Rogers, D. Katsnelson, J. Sidtis

• Effects of ON and OFF deep brain stimulation on voice quality in Parkinson's disease

  D. Katsnelson, D. Sidtis, J. Sidtis

• Speech Intelligibility in ALS and HD: Comparison of Every Listener and Family Caregiver Perspectives

  E. Klasner

• Physiologic jaw tremor under different deep brain stimulator conditions in patients with Parkinson's disease

  F. Boutsen, D. Wu , A. Stevens

• The Influence of Amplification on the Intelligibility of the Speech of Speakers with Dysarthria

  G. Turner, H. Martin, R. de Jonge

• Comparison of Vowel Area in Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech

  J. Iuzzini, K. Forrest

• Speech characteristics associated with three genotypes of ataxia

  J. Ahn, D. Sidtis, J. Sidtis

• Using MLG and AAC to Improve Speech Production in Profound Apraxia: A Case Example

  J. Lasker, J. Stierwalt, C. Hageman, L. LaPointe, S. Fountain

• Are some letter cues more important than others in alphabet supplementation?

  E. Hanson, K. McKee, J. Schwalm, N. Rausch, B. Fuhrman, T. Ferber, D. Beukelman

• MERT- a self practice alternative for improving subglottal pressure and loudness (Technical Report)

  M. Hakel, D. Beukelman, L. Perez, P. Lavin, P. Kavan

• 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. Vorperian, R. Kent, S. Wang, M. Chung, L. Gentry

• 2:00 Afternoon Free

Saturday, March 8, 2008

• 7:30 Continental Breakfast
• 8:00 Treatment Efficacy
• Combined Modality Treatment of Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia

  E. Silverman, E. Hapner, S. Gorman, D. Lundy, R. Shrivastav, C. Sapienza

• Segments and syllables as target units in the treatment of apraxia of speech: An investigation of learning and transfer effects

  I. Aichert, W. Ziegler

• Exploring treatment efficacy in non-progressive dysarthria: A comparison of two treatment programs

  P. Cornwell, D. Theodoros, R. Wenke

• 9:30 Special Session
• Driving Critical Initiatives in Motor Speech

  G. Weismer, S. Barlow, A. Smith, J. Caviness

• 11:30 Lunch Break
• 1:30 Physiology
• Learning sensorimotor mappings for speech and limb movements in adults who stutter

  C. Baldwin, R. Prokopenko, L. Max

• Changes in speech and regional cerebral blood flow associated with subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson's Disease

  J. Sidtis, D. Sidtis, J. Ahn, J. Yuen, E. Sweeting, M. Tagliati, V. Dhawan, D. Eidelberg

• Neural Correlates of Efficacy of Voice Therapy Identified by Performance-Correlation Analysis

  S. Narayana, W. Zhang, D. Vogel, C. Franklin, D. Robin, L. Ramig, P. Fox

• 3:00 Intro to Poster Session
• 3:15 Poster Session
• Acoustic characteristics of VCV utterances in the speech of children

  K. Bunton, B. Story

• Lip Kinematics in Early vs. Late Spanish-English Bilinguals

  J. Case, M. Grigos

• Lingual and Buccal Strength: Innovations in Clinical Assessment

  H. Clark, N. Solomon, K. O’Brien, A. Calleja, S. Newcomb

• Percent Vital Capacity per Syllable

  R. Netsell

• Neural Plasticity and Speech Motor Learning in Older Speakers: Evidence from a Nonword Learning Task

  N. Sadagopan, A. Smith

• The effect of loudness on articulatory function in non-dysarthric speakers with Parkinson's disease

  B. Murdoch, M. Kuruvilla, J. Goozee, L. Goozee

• Relationship between fundamental frequency declination rates and perceptual judgments of dysarthric speech in individuals with cerebral palsy

  K. Hustad, G. Weismer

• The Effect of Rate Reduction on Marking Prosodic Contrasts in Dysarthria: Pilot Results

  R. Patel, P. Campellone

• Fundamental Frequency Characteristics in Dysarthria: Effects of Rate and Loudness

  K. Tjaden, B. Hilczmayer, E. Szajta

• Parkinson's Disease and the Effect of Lexical Factors on Vowel Articulation

  P. Watson, B. Munson

• Decreased activation in left hemisphere speech processing regions in adults who stutter during both speech perception and production

  S. Chang, T. Loucks, M. Kenney, C. Poletto, C. Ludlow

• Use of prosody by children with severe dysarthria: A Cantonese extension study

  T. Whitehill, J. Lai

• On-line visual and kinematic feedback in a sound production treatment

  T. Fossett, M. McNeil, W. Katz, D. Garst, P. Doyle, N. Szuminsky, G. Carter

• Laryngeal function during voluntary cough: Its relationship to penetration/aspiration and voice quality in Parkinson's disease

  T. Pitts, D. Bolser, J. Rosenbek, M. Troche, C. Sapienza

• Acoustic consequences of disease progression in ALS

  Y. Yunusova, J. Green, L. Ball, G. Pattee

• Perception of Syntactic Boundaries in Speech Produced by Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: The Effects of Linguistic Context, Loudness, and Listener Experience

  M. MacPherson, J. Huber, D. Snow

• The impact of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) on articulatory dynamics in Parkinson's Disease

  G. Schulz, D. Theodoros, J. Goozee, M. Kuruvilla, J. Cowles

• Formant Steadiness: Treatment Related Changes in Speakers with Hypokinetic Dysarthria

  D. Beverly, D. Suiter, L. Chorna, T. Wolf, J. Watkins, M. Cannito

• Intensive voice treatment of dysarthria secondary to stroke

  L. Mahler, L. Ramig

• Perception of Parkinsonian speech: Ratings by self and others vs. acoustic measures

  K. Kozlosky, A. Goberman

• Ultrasonic vocalization in rats after unilateral dopamine depletion or mild doses of a dopamine receptor antagonist: Towards an animal model of vocalization in Parkinson disease

  C. Fox, M. Ciucci, T. Ma, A. Ahren, J. Kane, L. Cormack, T. Schallert, L. Ramig

• 5:30 Adjourn for Day

Sunday, March 9, 2008

• 7:30 Continental Breakfast
• 8:00 Intro to Poster Session
• 8:15 Poster Session
• Nonword Repetition in Children and Adults: Evidence for Consolidation of Speech Motor Learning

  J. Sasisekaran, A. Smith, N. Sadagopan, B. Walsh, C. Weber-Fox

• Motor learning and transfer along two continua of complexity for nonspeech oral gestures

  S. Shaiman, J. Kotler, K. Meigh, M. McNeil, N. Szuminsky, K. Verdolini

• Word frequency and phonologic similarity: Investigations into the processes of phonological processing for speech production

  J. Silkes, M. Rogers

• The Study of Speech Motor Control as a Developmental Life Span Phenomena

  E. Stathopoulos, J. Huber

• Compensatory responses to unexpected jaw loading during speech

  M. Tiede, T. Ito, D. Ostry

• Articulation in children with childhood apraxia of speech or phonological disorder

  L. Nijland, B. Maassen, H. Terband

• Changes in Speech Production Following Intensive Voice vs. Intensive Articulation Therapy in Parkinson Disease: A Preliminary Study

  J. Spielman, A. Halpern, L. Ramig

• Physiological constraints and their effects on articulatory performance in ALS

  A. Mefferd, J. Green, L. Ball, G. Pattee

• The Speech Needs Questionnaire: Preliminary data from a spasmodic dysphonia sample

  C. Baylor, K. Yorkston, T. Eadie, D. Amtmann

• Intensive voice treatment (LSVT) for children with spastic cerebral palsy

  C. Fox, C. Boliek, N.Namdaran, C. Nickerson, B. Gardner, C. Piccott, J. Hilstad, E. Archibald

• Cues to Lexical Segmentation: A Study of Resynthesized Speech

  S. Spitzer, J. Liss, S. Mattys

• Clients' perspectives on traditional vs. altered feedback therapy for rate control: Views of people with Parkinson Disease

  C. Dobinson, A. Lowit

• Increased levels of neural noise as the core deficit in Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)

  H. Terband, B. Maassen, J. Brumberg, F. Guenther

• Effects of dopaminergic medication on response preparation in Parkinson's disease

  K. Spencer

• Influence of auditory distraction upon intelligibility ratings in dysarthria

  M. McAuliffe, P. Good., G. O’Beirne, L. LaPointe

• Validating the delivery of LSVT online

  D. Theodoros, G. Constantinescu, T. Russell, E. Ward, S. Wilson, R. Wootton

• Repetitive Speech Behavior in PD - relationship to cognition and response to DAF

  A. Lowit, J. McLeod. P. Howell, B. Brendel

• CASE REPORT: Glossopharyngeal and neck accessory muscle breathing permit ventilator free time in a young woman with C2 complete tetraplegia and tracheostomy

  D. Britton, L. Boitano, C. Johnson, J. Benditt, K. Bell

• Pauses or phonemic cues: What makes alphabet supplementation work?

  E. Hanson, K. McKee, J. Schwalm, N. Rausch, B. Fuhrman, T. Ferber

• Nasal Obturation for Chronic Velopharyngeal Dysfunction of Dysarthria: A Technical Report

  M. Hakel, D. Beukelman

• Can IOPI Be Used to Measure Tongue Pressure for Speech Sounds?

  A. Neel, P. Palmer, C. Gass

• NTrainer Treatment Reduces Suck Spatiotemporal Variability in Preterm Infants

  M. Poore, E. Zimmerman, S.M. Barlow, J. Wang, F. Gu

• 9:30 Feedback Processes
• Effect of age on response of the speech motor system to unanticipated perturbation of the lip

  K. Ballard, L. Chaitow, D. Robin, J. Folkins, J. Moon

• Somatosensory information modifies perception of speech sounds

  T. Ito, M. Tiede, D. Ostry

• Speech Motor Learning in Deaf Adults

  S. Nasir, D. Ostry

• 11:00 Break
• 11:15 Dysarthria and AOS
• Examining Intelligibility Deficits in ALS and Huntington's Disease

  J. Liss, S. Spitzer, K. Lansford, Y. Choe, K. Kennerley, J. Caviness

• Patterns of speech abnormality in a large dysarthria database: Interactions between severity, acoustic features and dysarthria type

  Y. Kim, R. Kent, G. Weismer, J. Duffy

• Spontaneous speech production in apraxia of speech: Influence of sublexical frequency and structure

  A. Staiger, W. Ziegler

• 12:45 Adjournment

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