CDIS 4313 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Electropalatography, Vocal Tract, Strain Gauge
15 Feb 2017
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Dysarthria umbrella term for a group of speech production disorders in which the speech musculature. Apraxia condition where the patient has difficulty sequencing the articulatory movements for speech. intelligibility of an individual"s speech: Acoustic measures that help to supplement and complement perceptual judgments about the. Kinematic information regarding the patients underlying articulatory patterns. Many speakers who have dysarthria exhibit difficulty with the timing of their articulatory movements. People with dysarthria tend to have a longer duration of vowels and consonants compared to speakers without neurological problems. Longer durations of vowels and consonants can be evident as an overall slowing of the rate of speech. Healthy individuals typically speak at a rate around 5 syllables per second. Speakers who have dysarthria have been shown to have a reduced vowel space. At the articulatory level, the reduced vowel space indicates that the speaker is not reaching appropriate tongue positions for the corner vowels.
