Picture Description in the Assessment of Connected Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Assessment of intelligibility in dysarthria tends to rely on oral reading of sentences or words. However, self-generated utterances are closer to a client's natural speech. This study investigated how transcription of utterances elicited by picture description can be used in the assessment of intelligibility in speakers with Parkinson's disease.

Methods

Speech samples from eleven speakers with Parkinson's disease and six neurologically healthy persons were audio-recorded. Forty-two naive listeners completed transcriptions of self-generated sentences from a picture description task and orally read sentences from the Swedish Test of Intelligibility, as well as scaled ratings of narrative speech samples.

Results

Intelligibility was higher in orally read

SUBMITTER: Johansson IL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677862 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature