Speech impairment in Parkinson’s disease: experimental and clinical approaches

Abstract

Voice and speech disorders are quite frequent in patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The aims of the current thesis were: (i) to examine the effects of loudness and rate manipulations on speech production in patients with PD and to identify speech indices with the sensitivity to detect these effects over time, (ii) to examine how concurrent performance affects normal and loud speech production in patients with PD and (iii) to examine the feasibility of a 12-week pilot group rehabilitation programme that combines speech with non-speech rehabilitation principles. The research was conducted in three studies and different samples were recruited for each study. All participants underwent examination of their motor abilities and their speech was also assessed. In all three studies, speech assessment protocols included similar assessment procedures and stimuli, but there were differences in the speech elicitation tasks and the extracted indices according to the aim of each study ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/50441
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/50441
ND
50441
Alternative title
Διαταραχές ομιλίας στη νόσο Πάρκινσον: πειραματικές και κλινικές προσεγγίσεις
Author
Spanou, Aikaterini (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2017
Degree Grantor
University of Reading
Committee members
Ho Aileen
Miller Nick
Bose Arpita
Discipline
Medical and Health SciencesHealth Sciences ➨ Health sciences, miscellaneous
Social SciencesPsychology and Cognitive Sciences ➨ Psychology, interdisciplinary
Keywords
Parkinson's disease; Speech disorder's
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Description
tbls., ch.
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