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Bourqui M, Lancheros M, Assal F, Laganaro M. The encoding of speech modes in motor speech disorders: whispered versus normal speech in apraxia of speech and hypokinetic dysarthria. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS 2024:1-22. [PMID: 38691845 DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2024.2345353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
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Speakers with motor speech disorders (MSD) present challenges in speech production, one of them being the difficulty to adapt their speech to different modes. However, it is unclear whether different types of MSD are similarly affected when it comes to adapting their speech to various communication contexts. This study investigates the encoding of speech modes in individuals with AoS following focal brain damage and in individuals with hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) secondary to Parkinson's disease. Participants with mild-to-moderate MSD and their age-matched controls performed a delayed production task of pseudo-words in two speech modes: normal and whispered speech. While overall accuracy did not differ significantly across speech modes, participants with AoS exhibited longer response latencies for whispered speech, reflecting difficulties in the initiation of utterances requiring an unvoiced production. In contrast, participants with HD showed faster response latencies for whispered speech, indicating that this speech mode is easier to encode/control for this population. Acoustic durations followed these same trends, with participants with AoS showing greater lengthening for whispered speech as compared to controls and to participants with HD, while participants with HD exhibited milder lengthening. Contrary to the predictions of speech production models, suggesting that speech mode changes might be particularly difficult in dysarthria, the present results suggest that speech mode adaptation rather seems particularly costly for participants with AoS.
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- M Bourqui
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Costa BM, Brescancini CR, Ortiz KZ. Assessment protocol for acquired apraxia of speech. Codas 2023; 36:e20220251. [PMID: 37851756 DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20232022251pt] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To develop an assessment protocol for speech motor planning with phonologically balanced stimuli for Brazilian Portuguese, including all necessary variables for this diagnosis. METHODS Three stages were carried out: In the first, word lists were built with the main criterion being syllabic and accentual patterns. From the survey conducted in Stage 1, the words that composed the first version of the protocol lists in Stage 2 were selected, and grouped into two fundamental tasks for diagnosing acquired apraxia of speech (AOS): repetition and Reading Aloud (RA). In Stage 3, the occurrence of words was investigated using the Brazilian Corpus (PUC-SP) - Linguateca database, and a statistical analysis was performed to verify if the repetition and RA lists were balanced in terms of the occurrences. Thus, the lists were distributed in quartiles and submitted to both descriptive and bivariate analyses. A significance level of 5% (p<0.05) was adopted. RESULTS After completion of all stages, the words that composed the lists of the repetition and RA tasks were obtained. Finally, other tasks considered essential for the assessment of AOS, such as diadochokinetic rates and the board for spontaneous oral emission, were then added to the protocol. CONCLUSION The developed protocol contains the tasks considered standard for the assessment of AOS according to the international literature, which makes this instrument important for diagnosing this disorder in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese.
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- Beatriz Maurer Costa
- Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP - São Paulo (SP), Brasil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Escola de Humanidades, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS - Porto Alegre (RS), Brasil
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- Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP - São Paulo (SP), Brasil
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Haley KL, Jacks A. Three-Dimensional Speech Profiles in Stroke Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 2023; 32:1825-1834. [PMID: 36603554 PMCID: PMC10561969 DOI: 10.1044/2022_ajslp-22-00170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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PURPOSE Behaviorally, acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) is a multidimensional syndrome that the experienced clinician recognizes based on impaired articulation and abnormal temporal prosody. We conducted this study to determine the extent to which three core features of AOS-when defined quantitatively-distinguish categorically among aphasia with no or minimal speech sound involvement, aphasia with AOS, and aphasia with phonemic paraphasia (APP). METHOD The study involved retrospective analysis of 195 participants with stroke-induced aphasia. We used three quantitative measures (phonemic error frequency, distortion error frequency, and word syllable duration [WSD]) to divide the sample into four participant groups according to the most likely speech diagnosis: aphasia with minimal speech sound errors, AOS, APP, and a borderline group with mixed profiles. We then conducted nonparametric comparisons across groups for which the measures were not defined and visualized all three measures in a three-dimensional graph. RESULTS The measures distributed as multidimensional spectra rather than discrete diagnostic entities, and there was considerable behavioral overlap among participant groups. Thirty percent of participants presented with aphasia with minimal sound production difficulties, and they were statistically indistinguishable from the APP group on distortion frequency and WSD. Distortion frequency and WSD were in a borderline region between AOS and APP for 29% of participants. Compared to all other groups, participants with AOS produced significantly more errors that affected listeners' phonemic perception. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that the current AOS-APP dichotomy has limited validity. We conclude that a continuous multidimensional view of speech variation would be a constructive perspective from which to understand how the left cerebral hemisphere produces speech and that quantitative and normed speech measures should be used to inform differential diagnosis in clinical settings. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.21807609.
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- Katarina L. Haley
- Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Potagas C, Nikitopoulou Z, Angelopoulou G, Kasselimis D, Laskaris N, Kourtidou E, Constantinides VC, Bougea A, Paraskevas GP, Papageorgiou G, Tsolakopoulos D, Papageorgiou SG, Kapaki E. Silent Pauses and Speech Indices as Biomarkers for Primary Progressive Aphasia. Medicina (B Aires) 2022; 58:medicina58101352. [PMID: 36295513 PMCID: PMC9611099 DOI: 10.3390/medicina58101352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Background and Objectives: Recent studies highlight the importance of investigating biomarkers for diagnosing and classifying patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Even though there is ongoing research on pathophysiological indices in this field, the use of behavioral variables, and especially speech-derived factors, has drawn little attention in the relevant literature. The present study aims to investigate the possible utility of speech-derived indices, particularly silent pauses, as biomarkers for primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Materials and Methods: We recruited 22 PPA patients and 17 healthy controls, from whom we obtained speech samples based on two elicitation tasks, i.e., cookie theft picture description (CTP) and the patients’ personal narration of the disease onset and course. Results: Four main indices were derived from these speech samples: speech rate, articulation rate, pause frequency, and pause duration. In order to investigate whether these indices could be used to discriminate between the four groups of participants (healthy individuals and the three patient subgroups corresponding to the three variants of PPA), we conducted three sets of analyses: a series of ANOVAs, two principal component analyses (PCAs), and two hierarchical cluster analyses (HCAs). The ANOVAs revealed significant differences between the four subgroups for all four variables, with the CTP results being more robust. The subsequent PCAs and HCAs were in accordance with the initial statistical comparisons, revealing that the speech-derived indices for CTP provided a clearer classification and were especially useful for distinguishing the non-fluent variant from healthy participants as well as from the two other PPA taxonomic categories. Conclusions: In sum, we argue that speech-derived indices, and especially silent pauses, could be used as complementary biomarkers to efficiently discriminate between PPA and healthy speakers, as well as between the three variants of the disease.
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- Constantin Potagas
- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
- Department of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Peloponnese, 241 00 Kalamata, Greece
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- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
- Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 176 71 Athens, Greece
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- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
- Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering, School of Engineering, University of West Attica, 122 43 Athens, Greece
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- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
- 2nd Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Neuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Neurology, Eginitio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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Swann Z, Daliri A, Honeycutt CF. Impact of Startling Acoustic Stimuli on Word Repetition in Individuals With Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech Following Stroke. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2022; 65:1671-1685. [PMID: 35377739 DOI: 10.1044/2022_jslhr-21-00486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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PURPOSE The StartReact effect, whereby movements are elicited by loud, startling acoustic stimuli (SAS), allows the evaluation of movements when initiated through involuntary circuitry, before auditory feedback. When StartReact is applied during poststroke upper extremity movements, individuals exhibit increased muscle recruitment, reaction times, and reaching distances. StartReact releases unimpaired speech with similar increases in muscle recruitment and reaction time. However, as poststroke communication disorders have divergent neural circuitry from upper extremity tasks, it is unclear if StartReact will enhance speech poststroke. Our objective is to determine if (a) StartReact is present in individuals with poststroke aphasia and apraxia and (b) SAS exposure enhances speech intelligibility. METHOD We remotely delivered startling, 105-dB white noise bursts (SAS) and quiet, non-SAS cues to 15 individuals with poststroke aphasia and apraxia during repetition of six words. We evaluated average word intensity, pitch, pitch trajectories, vowel formants F1 and F2 (first and second formants), phonemic error rate, and percent incidence of each SAS versus non-SAS-elicited phoneme produced under each cue type. RESULTS For SAS trials compared to non-SAS, speech intensity increased (∆ + 0.6 dB), speech pitch increased (∆ + 22.7 Hz), and formants (F1 and F2) changed, resulting in a smaller vowel space after SAS. SAS affected pitch trajectories for some, but not all, words. Non-SAS trials had more stops (∆ + 4.7 utterances) while SAS trials had more sustained phonemes (fricatives, glides, affricates, liquids; ∆ + 5.4 utterances). SAS trials had fewer distortion errors but no change in substitution errors or overall error rate compared to non-SAS trials. CONCLUSIONS We show that stroke-impaired speech is susceptible to StartReact, evidenced by decreased intelligibility due to altered formants, pitch trajectories, and articulation, including increased incidence of sounds that could not be produced without SAS. Future studies should examine the impact of SAS on voluntary speech intelligibility and clinical measures of aphasia and apraxia.
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- Zoe Swann
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe
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- College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe
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- School of Biological and Health Science Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe
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Mailend ML, Maas E, Story BH. Apraxia of speech and the study of speech production impairments: Can we avoid further confusion? Reply to Romani (2021). Cogn Neuropsychol 2021; 38:309-317. [PMID: 34881683 PMCID: PMC10011684 DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2021.2009790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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We agree with Cristina Romani (CR) about reducing confusion and agree that the issues raised in her commentary are central to the study of apraxia of speech (AOS). However, CR critiques our approach from the perspective of basic cognitive neuropsychology. This is confusing and misleading because, contrary to CR's claim, we did not attempt to inform models of typical speech production. Instead, we relied on such models to study the impairment in the clinical category of AOS (translational cognitive neuropsychology). Thus, the approach along with the underlying assumptions is different. This response aims to clarify these assumptions, broaden the discussion regarding the methodological approach, and address CR's concerns. We argue that our approach is well-suited to meet the goals of our recent studies and is commensurate with the current state of the science of AOS. Ultimately, a plurality of approaches is needed to understand a phenomenon as complex as AOS.
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- Marja-Liisa Mailend
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Einstein Healthcare Network, Elkins Park, PA, USA.,Department of Special Education, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Bislick L. A Phonomotor Approach to Apraxia of Speech Treatment. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 2020; 29:2109-2130. [PMID: 32997520 DOI: 10.1044/2020_ajslp-19-00116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Purpose This study continued Phase I investigation of a modified Phonomotor Treatment (PMT) Program on motor planning in two individuals with apraxia of speech (AOS) and aphasia and, with support from prior work, refined Phase I methodology for treatment intensity and duration, a measure of communicative participation, and the use of effect size benchmarks specific to AOS. Method A single-case experimental design with multiple baselines across behaviors and participants was used to examine acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of treatment effects 8-10 weeks posttreatment. Treatment was distributed 3 days a week, and duration of treatment was specific to each participant (criterion based). Experimental stimuli consisted of target sounds or clusters embedded nonwords and real words, specific to each participants' deficit. Results Findings show improved repetition accuracy for targets in trained nonwords, generalization to targets in untrained nonwords and real words, and maintenance of treatment effects at 10 weeks posttreatment for one participant and more variable outcomes for the other participant. Conclusions Results indicate that a modified version of PMT can promote generalization and maintenance of treatment gains for trained speech targets via a multimodal approach emphasizing repeated exposure and practice. While these results are promising, the frequent co-occurrence of AOS and aphasia warrants a treatment that addresses both motor planning and linguistic deficits. Thus, the application of traditional PMT with participant-specific modifications for AOS embedded into the treatment program may be a more effective approach. Future work will continue to examine and maximize improvements in motor planning, while also treating anomia in aphasia.
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- Lauren Bislick
- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, Orlando
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