Effects of spontaneous gestures on comprehension and intelligibility of dysarthric speech: A case report

Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 145-148

  Garcia, Jane Mertz ^a   Crowe, Linda K ^a   Redler, Dianne ^a   Hustad, Katherine ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DYSARTHRIA; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 10944227332     PISSN: 10651438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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