Journal Reviews

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Motor learning: better knowing how, not how well

3 November 2023 | | Speech and Language Therapy | motor speech disorders, dysarthria, dyspraxia

Motor learning is described as the ability to perform a motor skill due to practice and/or experience. Research on interventions to enhance limb motor skills can be influenced through the amount, distribution, variability and schedule of practice as well as...

Sing it, say it, sort it: singing for Parkinson’s disease

6 January 2023 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Parkinson’s disease, acoustic analysis, dysarthria, intergenerational choral singing, objective assessment, speech rehabilitation

Parkinson’s disease (PD) occurs in 1% of the population aged over 60. Changes in voice and speech are among the earliest and most prevalent symptoms of PD; reduced vocal intensity, monopitch, monoloudness, breathy and hoarse voice quality, imprecise articulation, vocal...

Tongue twisters to evaluate speech disorders

1 January 2018 | | prosody, dysarthria, tongue twisters

This interesting study compared errors in tongue twisters produced by adult patients with dysarthria with those produced by age-matched healthy controls. Audio recordings of all patients while they were vocalising tongue twisters were studied. The authors marked one word prominently...