Articulatory and phonological performance in people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Background: Markers of phonological and articulatory processing, though at times difficult to identify, may be useful for the assessment of changes in the speech of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Objective: To review the evidence on phonological and articulatory speech processing in older adults with MCI and AD and identify the most sensitive speech assessment tasks for detecting impairments in these abilities. Methods: This scoping review of the PubMed, Scopus, Lilacs, Web of Science, Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Embase databases was updated in April 2024. Studies of older adults with MCI and AD that evaluated articulatory or phonological aspects of speech were included in the review. Two independent reviewers used EndNote a

SUBMITTER: Cera M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11863758 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature