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ArticleFolia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)2022

Picture Description in the Assessment of Connected Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study.

Inga-Lena Johansson, Christina Samuelsson, Nicole Müller

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Article in Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Inga-Lena JohanssonDepartment of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences/Speech and Language Pathology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Christina SamuelssonDepartment of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences/Speech and Language Pathology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Nicole MüllerDepartment of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences/Speech and Language Pathology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

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introductionAssessment of intelligibility in dysarthria tends to rely on oral reading of sentences or words. However, self-generated utterances are closer to a client's natural speech. This study investigated how transcription of utterances elicited by picture description can be used in the assessment of intelligibility in speakers with Parkinson's disease.

methodsSpeech samples from eleven speakers with Parkinson's disease and six neurologically healthy persons were audio-recorded. Forty-two naive listeners completed transcriptions of self-generated sentences from a picture description task and orally read sentences from the Swedish Test of Intelligibility, as well as scaled ratings of narrative speech samples.

resultsIntelligibility was higher in orally read than self-generated sentences and higher for content words than for the whole sentence in self-generated sentences for most of the speakers, although these within-group differences were not statistically significant at the group level. Adding contextual leads for the listeners increased intelligibility in self-generated utterances significantly but with individual variation. Although correlations between the intelligibility measures were at least moderate or strong, there was a considerable inter- and intra-speaker variability in intelligibility scores between tasks for the speakers with Parkinson's disease, indicating individual variation of factors that impact intelligibility. Intelligibility scores from neurologically healthy speakers were generally high across tasks with no significant differences between the conditions.

conclusionWithin-speaker variability supports literature recommendations to use multiple methods and tasks when assessing intelligibility. The inclusion of transcription of self-generated utterances elicited by picture description to the intelligibility assessment has the potential to provide additional information to assessment methods based on oral reading of pre-scripted sentences and to inform the planning of interventions.

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Parkinson DiseaseSpeech IntelligibilityDysarthriaHumansPilot ProjectsSpeech Production MeasurementAssessmentDysarthriaIntelligibilityParkinson’s diseasePicture description

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