Long-term average spectral (LTAS) measures of dysarthria and their relationship to perceived severity

Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 125-132

  Tjaden, Kris ^a   Sussman, Joan E ^a   Liu, Grace ^a   Wilding, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysarthria; Long term average spectrum; Speech severity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM AVERAGE SPECTRUM; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENTENCE INTELLIGIBILITY TEST; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOICE;

EID: 79952376313     PISSN: 10651438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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