Estimating the intelligibility of speakers with dysarthria

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 217-228

  Hustad, Katherine C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Dysarthria; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSARTHRIA; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL PALSY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TAPE RECORDING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33646096246     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091735     Document Type: Article

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