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Acoustic parameters for the evaluation of voice quality in patients with voice disorders.
BACKGROUND To investigate the value of the standard deviation of the fundamental frequency (F0 SD), jitter, and shimmer for the evaluation of voice quality and the description of vocal characteristics in patients with voice disorders.
Gelin Li +4 more
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Pre-Stimulus Head Position and Its Effect on Sound Localization Metrics in Children
Background: This study investigates the impact of initial head position prior to stimulus presentation on sound localization accuracy in children. The quadratic angular root mean square error (RMSE) and the linear mean-absolute-error (MAE) have been ...
Elisabeth Zangerl +4 more
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Understanding the nature of apraxia of speech: Theory, analysis, and treatment
Researchers have interpreted the behaviours of individuals with acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) as impairment of linguistic phonological processing, motor control, or both.
Kirrie J. Ballard +2 more
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Green Voice Project: preserving the healthy voice in teachers
This article reviews five recent studies on preventing voice problems in vocally healthy student teachers and teachers. The differences in research design are discussed and suggestions for future studies are provided.
Yiu, EML, Chan, KMK
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Recent advances in neuroscience have suggested that exercise-based behavioral treatments may improve function and possibly slow progression of motor symptoms in individuals with Parkinson disease (PD).
Cynthia Fox +3 more
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Dysphonia is the main symptom of the disorders of oral communication. However, voice disorders also present with other symptoms such as difficulty in maintaining the voice (asthenia), vocal fatigue, variation in habitual vocal fundamental frequency, hoarseness, lack of vocal volume and projection, loss of vocal efficiency, and weakness when speaking ...
Przysiezny, Paulo Eduardo +1 more
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Cross-linguistic study of vocal pathology: perceptual features of spasmodic dysphonia in French-speaking subjects [PDF]
Clinical characterisation of Spasmodic Dysphonia of the adductor type (SD) in French speakers by Klap and colleagues (1993) appears to differ from that of SD in English. This perceptual analysis aims to describe the phonetic features of French SD.
Lorch, Marjorie, Whurr, R.
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Prevalence of Voice Disorders in Healthcare Workers in the Universal Masking COVID‐19 Era
To determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of voice disorders in healthcare workers of high‐risk hospital care units during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic.
C. Heider +7 more
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ABSTRACT Background Accessing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be challenging, especially for underserved patients, which may lead to disparities in neurological diagnosis. Method This mixed‐methods study enrolled adults with one of four neurological disorders: mild cognitive impairment or dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis ...
Maya L. Mastick +19 more
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ABSTRACT Objective In multiple sclerosis, the optimal time for deploying a therapeutic intervention is before the central nervous system is damaged; given the success of trials treating the earliest stage of MS, the radiologically isolated syndrome, developing primary prevention strategies is an important next challenge.
Amy W. Laitinen +7 more
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