of the articulators to decelerate the speaking rate. Clinical application of loudness levels in therapy may prove beneficial in improving the speech of persons with a motor speech disorder. Effect of Vocal Intensity on Articulation 3

The Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) has been shown to be highly effective in treating the speech disorder in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). However, patient access to this treatment remains limited in Australia, due to availability of speech pathologists, patient mobility and distance issues. We

We present an assessment of the practical value of existing traditional and non-standard measures for discriminating healthy people from people with Parkinson‟s disease (PD) by detecting dysphonia. We introduce a new measure of dysphonia, Pitch Period Entropy (PPE), which is robust to many

in patients with Parkinson’s disease, it was hypoth-esized that levodopa would improve preparatory motor set related activity and alleviate hypophonia. Patients fasted and abstained from levodopa overnight. Motor examination and speech testing was performed the following day, pre-levo-dopa during their “off

New Spanish speech corpus database for the analysis of people suffering from

Purpose: The aim of the current study was to survey if vowel articulation in speakers with Parkinson’s disease (PD) shows specific changes in the course of the disease. Method: 67 patients with PD (42 male) and 40 healthy speakers (20 male) were tested and retested after an average time interval

Background: Patients with Parkinson’s disease face numerous access barriers to speech pathology services for appropriate assessment and treatment. Telerehabilitation is a possible solution to this problem, whereby rehabilitation services may be delivered to the patient at a distance, via

The disorders of voice and speech in Parkinson’s disease (PD) result from involvements in several subsystems including respiration, phonation, articulation, and prosody. 1–3 We investigated the feasibility of acoustic measures for the identification of voice and speech disorders in PD, using a

The purpose of this review was to examine the different treatment approaches for persons with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and to examine the effects of these treatments on speech. Treatment methods reviewed include speech therapy, pharmacological, and surgical. Re-search from the 1950s through

no change in phonatory para-meters. Traditional speech therapy can lead to improvement of dysarthria, and intensive programmes have had substantial beneficial effects on vocal loudness. Unilateral surgical lesions of subcortical structures are variably