Rate Modulation Abilities in Acquired Motor Speech Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to describe, compare, and understand speech modulation capabilities of patients with varying motor speech disorders (MSDs) in a paradigm in which patients made highly cued attempts to speak faster or slower.

Method

Twenty-nine patients, 12 with apraxia of speech (AOS; four phonetic and eight prosodic subtype), eight with dysarthria (six hypokinetic and two spastic subtype), and nine patients without any neurogenic MSD completed a standard motor speech evaluation where they were asked to repeat words and sentences, which served as their "natural" speaking rate. They were then asked to repeat lower complexity (counting 1-5; repeating "cat" and "catnip" 3 times each) and higher complexity stimuli (repeating "catastrophe" and "stethoscope" 3

SUBMITTER: Utianski RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10555464 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature