Effect of intensive voice treatment on tone-language speakers with Parkinson's disease

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 21, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 919-925

  Whitehill, Tara L ^a   Wong, Lina L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

LSVT; Parkinson's disease; Tone; Treatment; Voice

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEE SILVERMAN VOICE TREATMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; SPEECH THERAPY; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 35848970290     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701602045     Document Type: Article

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